Although Ubisoft has yet to formally confirm a new Ghost Recon game is on the way, in a recent shareholder Q&A, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot and CFO Frederick Duguet talked openly about the upcoming sequel.
As spotted by VGC, Dugent revealed that the recent investment from Tencent – the subsidiary for which will be lead by Christophe Derennes and Charlie Guillemot as co-CEOs – will be used to develop “other major brand names”, with Ghost Recon being “just one example for our first-person-shooter-type games”.
Elsewhere in the meeting, CEO Guillemot said: “In addition to the [Rainbow Six] game that I just mentioned, our objective is to also make strong progress in the growing market, generally speaking, by continuing to enhance our current experiences that we offer – and capitalising on upcoming launches, such as The Division and Ghost Recon.”
Given we haven’t had a Ghost Recon game since 2019 (I had a bad time with the last one, slapping it with Avoid, calling it “a limp and lifeless spin on the Ubisoft formula”), for Guillemot to use the words “current experiences” and “upcoming launches” in relation to a franchise that hasn’t seen a new game for six years suggests a new Ghost Recon installment is on the way.
Yesterday we reported that Ubisoft’s own shareholders directly challenged the publisher to respond to the huge swell of support behind Stop Killing Games – a consumer movement generated by Ubisoft’s decision to take The Crew offline last year.