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The Division Delayed, Now Slated for Early 2016 Release

Tom Clancy's The Division gets pushed out of 2015.

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Ubisoft's ambitious open-world game The Division has been delayed and is now expected out early next year, the publisher revealed today.

As part of today's financial results announcement for the year ending March 31, Ubisoft offered a new release window for the latest game to bear Tom Clancy's name. An outline of games coming during the company's 2016 fiscal year (which runs April 1, 2015 - March 31, 2016) lists The Division as coming to Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC during its fourth fiscal quarter, which translates to January-March of 2016.

The Division was at one point expected out in 2014, something an anonymous development source described as "laughable" at the time. In May, it was delayed until 2015, though we've never gotten a more specific release date than that.

Ubisoft recently revealed that, along with Massive Entertainment, a total of four studios are working on The Division.

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No surprise....this is common now for games to delayed 3-4 times or more. Never used to be like this but now we have games being delay to many times and then being released with too many bugs....I which the publishers/developers start getting their act together.

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Last-gen, it wasn't like this when games were getting delay after they have there release date set but now this current-gen, I'm not expecting anymore release date sets and I'll pick up games whenever they finally release.

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Honestly, as amazing as this looked when the first footage was released, I lost interest when they began describing the micro-transactions.

Might be a bargain-bin pick up a few months after release, like Destiny (2/3 of a year old, and can be purchased for $24.99 new at Kmart - or anywhere that price matches - with a quick Google search).

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Can't really say I was expecting this. This is Watch Dogs all over again and I had no intention of picking Division up after I have read the reviews.

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You guys should be happy about this, they actually give a shit about the game they are making, and they aren't releasing it early so we don't have a shit product, good on them.

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Another R6 Patriots?

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Ah well another Watch_Dogs guys. Another downgrade by Ubisoft.....

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That's a shame was looking forward to this, but I'm sure the wait would be worth it in the end especially if there isn't any bugs or glitches in it if there is any

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Hehe this is ubisoft we are talking about...

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WE HAVE 4 TEAMS WORKING ON THIS PROJECT!!!!!!!!!!!

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And Had 4 studios work on ACU and that game turn to be broken

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@madmonk: And still have to delay it.

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hopefully this means they'll be spending more time with it. as much as I've enjoyed what I've seen thus far of the game, the new AC looks like another mediocre installment, and watchdogs has made me worried about vertical slices.

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This is understandable: Ubisoft has to churn out its yearly Assassin's Creed so setbacks have to be made elsewhere.

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I am not angry at them...with Forza 6,Tom Raider and Halo 5,i will not have any time to play more games.

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@sladakrobot: Unless those get delayed too.

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@elheber@sladakrobot: The Witcher 3 can easily consume the rest of our videogame days.

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@DariusMKN@elheber@sladakrobot: Even the best things end someday.Enjoy it fully as long as it takes.

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Life is too short.

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@elheber@sladakrobot: Forza 6 and Halo 5 are confirmed.
Tomb Raider has been announced for holiday 2015

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@sladakrobot: Are you suggesting games with confirmed release dates don't get delayed?

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@elheber@sladakrobot: I am suggesting that Halo 5 and Forza 6 will not be delayed.
I cant speak for other games.

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Well they sometimes do get delayed, << LINK REMOVED >>. It can happen to Halo and Forza.

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@elheber@sladakrobot: After the exact release date is revealed on tv shows,i doubt it

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@sladakrobot: All I said was "unless" and you fought me on this. It's a real possibility no matter how much you doubt it.

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@elheber@sladakrobot:

No, Microsoft will not delay a game once they set a release date. They never have, and probably never will. And this close to release, it is even more unlikely.


But there are some instances where they probably should have (Halo MCC).

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@elheber@sladakrobot: Theoretically everything can happen but when a chance is about 1%,you dont need to speculate i think

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@sladakrobot: "1%"

I'm done here.

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@elheber@sladakrobot: bye

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What a surprise.. I don't think it will be that good anyway, it is Ubisoft after all..

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I would prefer for them to take their time. Also there are already a lot of fall releases.

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@keeper262: people said that with watchdogs and look how that turned out

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This game looks amazing. I'm okay with this as long as they get it right at launch.

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! But rather this than releasing an unfinished product.

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@toffifee: I like Tofifee

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Excellent! Especially after that other junk games launches from Ubisoft.

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Called it!

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Why am I not surprised ? After they announced that another studio is also working on this game, it made me somewhat loose hope on that game.

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@jako998: Yeah, it was to be expected...but at least it actually happened lest we get some incomplete mess.

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And no one cares because the Witcher 3 review is out.

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@93ChevyNut: That game has porn in it.

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lol

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@RC-Sev: May I ask, why is this funny?


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@Attitude2000@RC-Sev: lol

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@MAGIC-KINECT@Attitude2000@RC-Sev: haha



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I'm actually thankful for this. Too many eggs in one basket; the perennial Assassin's Creed, plus Rainbow Six and the Division...that wasn't going to work. Just look at Ubi's last fall.

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@Attitude2000: Me too, but not just because of Ubisoft's lineup. There are some good games to be released later this year (unless those are delayed too).

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omfg... The one game i was hyped about this year.

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Wow, what a shock.

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