Ubisoft: Watch Dogs Was Too Ambitious for Its Own Good

One of the announcements that Ubisoft did not make during its E3 2015 press conference, despite the fact that fans were ready for it, was that a second installment in the Watch Dogs series was in development, and it seems that the company is still processing the lessons that it learned from the title.

Yves Guillemot, the leader of the company, is quoted by NeoGAF as explaining that the company simply tried to introduce too many new features and core elements for a first installment in the franchise.

He explains, "We think we launched a good quality game for a first step in a new brand with a new technology. It’s just so complex - seamless multiplayer, connectivity with mobile and tablets, so many things - it was maybe a bit too much for a first iteration."

When Watch Dogs was introduced, a lot of players were unhappy with the fact that neither the graphics nor the gameplay of the title was the one that the pre-release videos showed.

Since then, Ubisoft has chosen to be more careful about the gameplay demos that it shows, making sure that there are no moments that are artificially created to create hype but cannot be actually delivered when release date comes around.

Watch Dogs will probably get a sequel in 2016 or 2017

After the criticism, Ubisoft has not announced any specifics about future of the series and might be reconfiguring some of the core ideas while planning to deliver an official reveal late during this year or in 2016.

The development team has suggested that it has plenty of ideas about the way it can expand the open-world mechanics.

Until then, the structure of the title has been adopted by a wide range of other titles that Ubisoft is working on.

Both Assassin's Creed: Syndicate and the new Ghost Recon title are designed to give player the freedom to explore massive worlds and decide how to interact with a variety of factions while picking the best way to tackle combat sequences.

The two titles are designed to anchor the release schedule for Ubisoft this year and in 2016, and a new Watch Dogs might be a good bet for 2017.