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Ubisoft could alternate between yearly Assassin's Creed/Watch_Dogs sequels, says creative director
Coming from a Videogamer interview with Watch Dogs' creative director Jonathan Morin, where he was asked about alternating between yearly Assassin's Creed and Watch_Dogs installments.
"Could be. I don't know. Right now I'm focussing on Watch Dogs The Game, and we'll see when it comes out and people can scream their reaction and afterwards we'll see what happens. There's no point in being hasty about those things afterwards. Let's just wait and see and not be cocky about it.
I think that Black Flag and Watch Dogs feel very different. If you had GTA, same thing. Those three are probably the biggest [and] they're significantly different games, so from that perspective I'm not concerned. I mean, I'm not in control of what people will feel when the game comes out, but I've certainly played pretty much all of them and they feel pretty different in nature so I'm not concerned about it.
To an extent [Ubisoft] is [competing with itself]. But is it a bad thing? If I'm Yves [Guillemot, Ubisoft CEO], and I sit down and I look at a statement that says, 'Okay, on the next-gen platforms the two biggest games at launch are two games from Ubisoft competing with each other,' that's more positive than negative as a statement. So no, I think it's fine. I think they're different enough, more than enough to sustain each other.
Assassin's Creed is a brand that's been there for a long time so it makes sense that they have something for the launch, and us, it's a new fresh thing, completely different. So I think it makes a nice balance between the two. It's a good competition thing. I'm not too concerned about it."
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"Could be. I don't know. Right now I'm focussing on Watch Dogs The Game, and we'll see when it comes out and people can scream their reaction and afterwards we'll see what happens. There's no point in being hasty about those things afterwards. Let's just wait and see and not be cocky about it.
I think that Black Flag and Watch Dogs feel very different. If you had GTA, same thing. Those three are probably the biggest [and] they're significantly different games, so from that perspective I'm not concerned. I mean, I'm not in control of what people will feel when the game comes out, but I've certainly played pretty much all of them and they feel pretty different in nature so I'm not concerned about it.
To an extent [Ubisoft] is [competing with itself]. But is it a bad thing? If I'm Yves [Guillemot, Ubisoft CEO], and I sit down and I look at a statement that says, 'Okay, on the next-gen platforms the two biggest games at launch are two games from Ubisoft competing with each other,' that's more positive than negative as a statement. So no, I think it's fine. I think they're different enough, more than enough to sustain each other.
Assassin's Creed is a brand that's been there for a long time so it makes sense that they have something for the launch, and us, it's a new fresh thing, completely different. So I think it makes a nice balance between the two. It's a good competition thing. I'm not too concerned about it."
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