Assassin’s Creed Nexus looks pretty good but apparently didn’t sell very well, so Ubisoft is going to ease off on the whole VR thing for a bit.
Following disappointing sales of Assassin’s Creed Nexus, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot says the publisher isn’t going to increase its investment into VR game development until demand for it « grows enough. »
Assassin’s Creed Nexus looked « genuinely cool » in the estimation of news writer Joshua Wolens, « if you can keep yourself from throwing up, » which in the context of VR games I think is a mostly-complimentary statement. It also holds a high user rating on the Meta Store, and an overall rating of 78/100 on Metacritic. Those are solid numbers, but they apparently didn’t translate into significant sales.
« We’ve been a bit disappointed by what we were able to achieve on VR with Assassin’s Creed, » Guillemot said during an investors call.
