Tom Clancy’s The Division Delayed Until 2016

We haven’t heard much about Ubisoft’s open world, third-person shooter/RPG lately, but word comes from their financial earnings call (via Polygon) and the official website that Tom Clancy’s The Division has been delayed until sometime next year. Polygon offers some quotes from the call, so I’ll grab a snip from their piece:

“It is never an easy decision to move launch dates, but we are committed to make decisions that will benefit the players,” said CEO Yves Guillemot. “As I said in my introduction, this is our most important driver as it has always benefitted the company in the long run.”

Ubisoft’s financial year 2016 lineup also includes “another triple-A title” that has not yet been announced. When asked about whether or not the game was a new IP, Guillemot declined to comment.

Announced at E3 2013, open-world role-playing game The Division was previously slated to launch for PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One this year. Just this month, Ubisoft said that it was bringing on additional development help from the team behind Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell multiplayer, Ubisoft Annecy.

“Those games take more time to be completed,” Guillemot said. “We want to make sure we have enough feedback from consumers from alpha and betas to polish it as much as possible before the launch so it comes to the market with the best experience possible. We expect less sales in the financial year than if it would have been launched in the Christmas season, but over the whole, we expect as much sales over its lifespan.”