#Rainbow six extraction delayed series
Expect it to arrive this October for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X | S. The multiplayer extreme sports game was set to arrive this past February before the delay to September, making today’s delay the game’s second public push back. While the shooter won’t make its debut this year, Riders Republic is still planned to. When it eventually releases in January 2022, it will come to PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X | S. The Riders Republic team shared its own statement, saying that the extra time will give them “more time to fine tune the experience” and allow players to go hands-on in an upcoming beta test.Īfter a buildup of leaks and a name change, Ubisoft finally gave us a look at Rainbow Six Extractiongameplay as part of its E3 2021 Ubisoft Forward event. “We are confident this will ensure Rainbow Six Extraction is the immersive, cooperative, and thrilling experience we set out to create, and the one you aspire to play.” “We are embracing the opportunity to take additional time to bring this vision to life in the way it deserves in January 2022,” the Rainbow Six Extraction team said in a statement of the delay. The latest entry in the team-based shooter franchise was originally supposed to launch on September 16 of this year. Rainbow Six Extraction, on the other hand, won’t release until sometime in January 2022. Riders Republic has received a new release date of Octoinstead of September 2. Both delays were announced simultaneously today. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Extraction, on the other hand, was originally announced during E3 2019 under the name ‘Quarantine’, but earlier this year Ubisoft confirmed that it would be renamed due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Numerous games have faced delays over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, with studios citing pandemic stress and other issues behind the delays.īoth of Ubisoft’s statements included a promise to share more information “soon,” but it remains to be seen whether fans will see any appreciable news before the games’ new release dates.Two of Ubisoft’s upcoming multiplayer titles - Rainbow Six Extraction and Riders Republic - have been delayed.
Resident Evil Re:Verse, an upcoming multiplayer mode for players of Resident Evil Village, was recently delayed until 2022. Riders Republic and Rainbow Six Extraction are not the only recent games to be delayed. The Rainbow Six Extraction statement says that the development team “will use this time to ensure that we bring this immersive, cooperative, and thrilling experience to life”, while the Riders Republic blog post says that the team is taking “more time to fine tune the experience and give you another chance to jump in before launch.” It’s not clear whether any upcoming Riders Republic betas will also be affected.
It’s unclear why both games were delayed so close to one another. Rainbow Six Extraction and Riders Republic were both large parts of Ubisoft’s E3 presentation and were intended to be big fall releases for the publisher. We will use this time to ensure that we bring this immersive, cooperative, and thrilling experience to life as we prepare to bring you a truly unique Rainbow Six game. We are delaying the release of Rainbow Six Extraction until January 2022.
Riders Republic wasn’t pushed back quite as far, with a Ubisoft blog post from the development team stating that the game has been delayed to October 28 from an original release date of September 2. The Rainbow Six Extraction Twitter account s hared a statement this afternoon saying that the game has been delayed to January 2022, moved back from its September 16 date. This is the second time both games have been delayed, as Rainbow Six Extraction (then titled Quarantine) was originally scheduled to launch in 2020, and Riders Republic was originally slated for February 2021. Rainbow Six Extraction and Riders Republic, two of Ubisoft’s major upcoming games, have been delayed.