Assassin's Creed Shadows Finally Has an Official Nintendo Switch 2 Release Date and a Price

After a fig of leaks, Ubisoft has yet made it official: Assassin's Creed Shadows volition merchandise for Nintendo Switch 2 connected December 2 priced $59.99 / £49.99.

The Nintendo Switch 2 mentation includes each contented updates introduced since the game’s release, arsenic good arsenic transverse progression crossed each platforms and interaction surface support, "making navigation of menus, maps, and the hideout much intuitive than ever."

Ubisoft has besides confirmed Assassin's Creed Shadows is Game-Key Card game, which means Switch 2 players volition person to download the crippled earlier they tin play. Game-Key Cards person sparked a vociferous statement due to the fact that they're fundamentally useless unless your console is connected to the internet.

In September, a Ubisoft developer who worked connected the Nintendo larboard of Star Wars Outlaws defended the usage of Game-Key Cards, saying the existent crushed wherefore the Switch 2 mentation of Star Wars Outlaws uses a Game-Key Card was owed to the console's information speeds, and however rapidly the hardware tin work accusation from its bespoke cartridges, versus games downloaded to the console's interior memory.

Later successful September, Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy manager Naoki Hamaguchi implied that developers are choosing Game-Key Cards not needfully from a outgo perspective, but a show one, arsenic the format enables them to bring smoother-running games to the Switch 2. Nintendo precocious launched a survey designed to canvass the Switch 2 userbase connected its thoughts surrounding integer and carnal games.

In Assassin's Creed Shadows, you take betwixt a Shinobi oregon Samurai and research the unfastened satellite of Feudal Japan, from spectacular castle towns and bustling ports to peaceful shrines and pastoral landscapes. IGN's Assassin's Creed Shadows reappraisal returned an 8/10. We said: "By sharpening the edges of its existing systems, Assassin’s Creed Shadows creates 1 of the champion versions of the open-world benignant it’s been honing for the past decade."

Earlier this week, IGN reported that Assassin's Creed franchise brag Marc-Alexis Côté had departed Ubisoft aft a vocation spanning much than 20 years. Just a fewer days later, Côté made it wide that his daze exit from Ubisoft was not his decision.

In a station connected LinkedIn, Côté said helium bore "no resentment," but wanted to marque wide to erstwhile colleagues and fans that helium had not discontinue the Assassin's Creed franchise aft 15 years of his ain escaped will. The quality came conscionable 2 weeks aft Assassin's Creed, Ubisoft's biggest brand, became operated by Vantage Studios, the abstracted concern entity formed by Ubisoft with a 25% involvement from Chinese elephantine Tencent that volition besides present oversee each aboriginal Far Cry and Rainbow Six games.

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