Far Cry Primal PC Release Date Revealed, Comes After PS4/Xbox One

The PC version of Ubisoft's prehistoric Far Cry game, Primal, will launch on March 1, 2016, Ubisoft has announced. That's a week after the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 editions ship on February 23.

When Primal was announced back in October, Ubisoft said only that the PC edition would arrive sometime in March. No explanation for the slight delay was provided, but Ubisoft has a history of shipping the PC versions of multiplatform games after the console editions are released.

That was the case most recently with Assassin's Creed Syndicate; the Xbox One/PS4 versions debuted on October 23, while the PC edition arrived November 19. In the case of Syndicate, Ubisoft spent the extra month working on "stability and optimizing" efforts.

We've followed up with Ubisoft in an attempt to learn more about why the PC version of Primal is coming later than consoles.

GameSpot recently played a chunk of Primal; you can read our impressions here. In addition, you can watch 10 minutes of gameplay footage in the video above. For more, check out the stories below.

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