PC fans of Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed series are used to waiting until a few weeks after their console chums to get their hands on the game, but for Assassin’s Creed: Unity the developers are promising that things will be different.
Speaking to RPS, producer Lesley Phord-Toy said that the studio is ”very confident” of a simultaneous platform release.
“We’re always aiming to ship all our games on all platforms at the same time,” said Phord-Troy. “I don’t have any specific news on the PC version of Assassin’s Creed Unity, but I do know we’re planning on shipping on all three (platforms): Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. I haven’t heard any news differently than that.”
When asked why Ubisoft has had trouble with PC delays in the past, she replied; “It can be challenging. PC has a variety of different hardware configurations that you can’t necessarily predict. On a console you know what’s in the box. Every customer has the same configuration for the most part, and first-parties push firmware updates so everyone has what you’re expecting to have. PCs are nowhere near as consistent. So it can be extremely challenging to try and support as many of those permutations as possible.”
This time around, though, Phord-Troy suggests that things will be different. “Like I said, Ubi has been very successful at achieving same-ship in the recent past, so we’re very confident that we’ll be able to do the same for Assassin’s Creed Unity.”
Assassin’s Creed: Unity is coming October 28, 2014 for PS4, Xbox One and hopefully PC.
