For this and other reasons, I am considering cancelling my PS4 preorder. My two launch games were going to be Killzone: Shadow Fall and Watch_Dogs. Now that one of my launch games has been delayed, I will probably just wait until the next holiday season before making a purchase.

Plus, there are so many good games that are set to release for nearly every platform, that I don't think I will be missing all that much. Killzone is cool, but it can wait. In one day alone, I am picking up Super Mario 3D World, Tearaway, and A Link Between Worlds. My 3DS in general is one of the most backlogged systems I have ever owned. I spent so much time this year playing Fire Emblem and Shin Megami Tensei IV that I have missed some really great stuff, including Luigi's Mansion and now Pokemon X & Y.

And I'm definitely interested in picking up the special edition 3DS XL that was announced for Europe today. The nanosecond that gold 3DS XL is announced for NA, I will have it bought and paid for :-)

The silver lining here is that this will help spread out the games so we don't have a post-launch drought. I would rather have the game delayed and get a better game than to have it rushed.

I tip my hat to them for having the guts to delay this so close to launch, especially since it was a next-gen highlight. Really impressed they took that step... the quality issue must have been pretty serious.

Actually, the situation for Ubisoft is much worse than this blog suggests:

Splinter Cell Blacklist pretty much bombed at the market.
http://www.vgchartz.com/game/70785/tom-clancys-splinter-cell-blac
klist/
it is even outsold by the most hated entry in the series (Double agent)
http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=+splinter+cell&publisher;=175
0&platform;=&genre;=&minSales;=0&results;=200

If you crunch the numbers given above they expected nothing less than 10 million sales with watchdogs.
The same figure (10 million) will be expected for Black Flag. If it doesn`t deliver this delay could turn out to be their personal Watchgate.

From what I`ve seen of The Division they are also in danger with these two New IPs to cannibalize themselves, since the gameplay/setting seem very similar.

I'm pretty sure that Ubisoft also delayed the releases because of the platforms themself.

The xbox one will not launch in many countries and where it launches it will do so with inacceptable numbers.
Sony is currently lying to many, pretending to launch in many countries but they cut back the delivery to many countries to a degree where it is not launching there in reality either. I for example had a preorder at the biggest game retailer here in switzerland. They yesterday were told, despite having been 'granted' to take countless preorders' that they will get 3 PS4 for launch and another 3 PS4 until the end of 2013 - I doubt that requires any further comment on the scale of sonys scheme.

So in short, there will be no next generation consoles in 2013 (I'm willing to blame it on AMDs incapability to product in time and quantity here. selling the same crap twice for the same launch month can't work out, not even if they hadn't sold of GlobalFoundry) and Ubisoft is smart enough to realize that they need the next generation to be there if they want to make back the investment. That a few million consoles worldwide will just and plain simply not cut it.

We shall see how many others are going to delay their launches until the consoles actually shipped in numbers that don't pale against even a WiiU as a last minute resort, required because Sony played this shady game of not properly announcing that they have no hardware to send to market in the numbers they pretended and hyped to have when Microsoft shot their leg earlier this year delaying the XBox One launch in many places.

I'm planing to get this for the Wii U.

At first I was confused and upset about the game being delayed, but after refection about the decision, I can see why its a smart choice. There are a lot of games coming out including high profile console launches. They got one game in the space, why gamble with more.

Though it is a good decision, I don't however think their statements bode well for anyone that was planing to get this game on the PS3 or the Xbox360. I honestly believe those versions are going to get canned given the new launch window for this game.

In my opinion, Ubisoft did a smart move on holding back the release date for the game, especially after the controversy with the problem(s) found on all versions of Splinter Cell. It will be a good idea to make sure that Watch Dogs looks really good for all systems and not look rushed or unpolished. Plus, with so many games coming out between now and the end of this year, the competition would be too much for Watch Dogs at this point and it would have been even worse for the game if it looked sloppy and glitchy.

I can understand delaying the game to improve it, but these last minute delays by Ubisoft are annoying. First Rayman and now this. The delay for Rayman didn't help it at all even though the game is great. I hope Watch Dogs does better. It should since it launching in what looks like the drought period for games next year.