A Youtuber theorizes that Ubisoft may be finished with the Watch Dogs franchise using evidence from recent departures and development strategy.
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They may. And they may not.
He also took a look at job role personnel at Ubisoft and noticed that
senior members of the Watch Dogs development team have either left the company or have been moved to other games. At least seven senior developers that worked on
Watch Dogs are now scattered in the wind. Anyone left with the company has moved on to other projects.
7 senior devs out of 6484 people credited in the game credits of Watchdogs Legion means nothing. And even less in a company like Ubisoft where they had different teams working on different games of the same IP at the same time during a lot of years.
Fun fact: First time I knew about Watchdogs 2 and Legion was when WD2 still wasn't announced and as Ubi worker I attended a meeting where one of the other atendees was a guy who was working on "Watchdogs 2 and 3 (back then still wasn't called Legion)".
They may stop working on WD, at least for a while. They have a lot of announced big games coming plus at leaset some more like obvious unannouced sequels. So it would make sense to put some IPs like WD, Ghost Recon or The Crew to sleep for a while and to move people to help in big ass projects like BGE2, Avatar, Star Wars, AC Infinity or the next The Division and also help other projects like Skull & Bones, Roller Champions, Mario & Rabbids 2 and pretty likely the unannounced but super likely to be announced next Far Cry or the next big Rainbow Six. And well, some other minor projects like more new IP, crosover stuff and remakes, plus mobile stuff.
They have a shit ton of projects in the works, at least announced ones. So I'd understand they'd stop making WD stuff at least for a while. And then if years later someone asks for another WD they can consider it.