Ubisoft has today revealed an official release date for the upcoming Assassin's Creed III remaster, noting that the game will launch on 29th March. Sadly, despite the rumours, it would appear that Switch is missing out.
Towards the end of last month, we shared the news that multiple Czech retailers had started listing the game for Nintendo Switch, even going as far as sharing its box art. While no official confirmation had been given at the time, the box art - and Assassin's Creed Odyssey's recent cloud-based release in Japan - had us optimistic that the remaster might find it's way to Nintendo's console.
In an official press release today, though, the game has been confirmed for PlayStation 4, the Xbox One family of devices including Xbox One X, and Windows PC. There's no mention of Switch to be found.
From an official standpoint, then, any dreams of reliving the American Revolution on the go are now dead. The only potential glimmer of hope is the possibility that Nintendo may have asked Ubisoft to hold back a Switch announcement, ready for a surprise reveal in a theoretical future Nintendo Direct. To be absolutely clear, this is purely speculation on our part; it's impossible to know whether the game is secretly on the way or not.
Were you hoping to see Assassin's Creed III Remastered on Switch? Are you sad that it doesn't look likely now? Share your thoughts with us in the comments.
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It's a shame since Ubisoft know how well the Switch is doing they decide not to include. Maybe they've decided they don't want more money?
Having said that I have no interest in the series.
"Unless a Direct announcement is coming?"
You answered your own question. When is this Direct coming, Nintendo? Oh, right, we'll never see it coming.
IMHO it was unlikely that they would announce it with the others, it would be a separate announcement, often this happens with a switch release.. Id say at the moment its no more or less likely than it was.
The leaked art work is legit so at some point it was planned, I expect the switch port is taking longer.
I think it will still be announced for Switch. Just with the classic Switch delay!
Either way I'll be getting my copy on PS4 as part of the Odyssey season pass!
I discovered this gem of a game on WiiU (not quite a launch game but close), and haven't looked back since! Its become one of my favourite games of all time and i can't wait for this remaster, it looks beautiful!
Edit: It comes out on March 29th huh? Well at least something good happens that day 😅
I agree that they are likely waiting for an upcoming Nintendo Direct to reveal. It's a stupid move seeing as it's been revealed for the other consoles but that hasn't stopped companies from doing stupid stuff like this around Nintendo releases. Ubisoft will likely cash in on the Switch and eventually release ALL pre AC Unity games in the series.
Form that day i would rather switch getting Sekiro
I think they will announce it at the next direct or some other point in the future,if of course it's not coming out on the Switch,then they will not announce it.
Don’t care much for 3, Black Flag on the other hand...
I get both remasters at no extra cost as i have Odyssey season pass on Xbox One.
Bah.
Personally, I don't really want to replay ACIII anyway, but it would be nice to get some sort of AC support.
@AlexSora89 Haha! Don't toy with my emotions like that.
It doesn't necessarily mean the rumors are false, it's likely they need more time to tweak it for the switch (likely due to how Handheld mode works and battery saving/FPS related issues).
Since the game wouldn't be ready for the Switch by that date it doesn't make sense to announce it for the Switch when it wouldn't be ready for it by then.
Its sad that we only play indie games on this console. I am waiting for E3, if there are no news about upcoming AAA 3rd party games i might sell it, and rebuy it after 4-5 years when all good Nintendo games are out.
Oh, how nice, we are going to miss both AC games that are considered the worst ones by many players!
Ubisoft had so much potential to be one of the main third party devs for the Switch. It had a great start with Mario+Rabbids but all went down hill from there.
Of "new" games we only got the South Park and Starlink game. Everything else from them were okay-ish games or ports that not many people would care about it.
I hope it comes for those who want it, but I did not care for this game. Black Flag is a vastly superior game, and I'd buy that one for Switch in a heartbeat.
I have no interest in these games. Played 1, bored and couldn’t finish. Got 2, played and got bored, but forced myself to finish it. Got 4, got bored and couldn’t finish it. No loss for me but I’d like to see all the price of Persia games get ported over.
@bluemujika Many developers are still under the impression that Nintendo console owners only want lighthearted games. This is quickly proving to be false. Maybe this was a fact back in the Wii era, but things are different these days.
That stinks, was hoping for AC game on Switch. People were complaining about an AC port to Switch, now we sit by the sidelines while PS4 owners get one.
It's clear the title is going to be released for Switch, given the retailers were producing legitimate box art prior to the announcement on other consoles.
I love Nintendo Directs, but part of me wishes that game announcements would follow Bethesda's example and simply be announced for all three consoles at the same time. I'm not a fan of the constant anticipation and 'unknown' factor when awaiting things as simple as incoming game announcements for Nintendo consoles. The Switch is a worthy console, and it deserves to receive release parity with rival consoles.
At this point, It's the not knowing about which games will come out this year and when. It's leaving too many rumours and speculations. I would like to plan my money out Nintendo!!
I mean, that box art leak is about as real as leaks get...
I hate money too Ubisoft. We should hang...
well thats too bad. The lack of Western support on Switch really hurts
Well, that's a pass.
@AlexSora89
Well played.
pfft all Xbox One and PS4 get is old gen ports! Pathetic!
jumps into an article about a game I have no interest in to say I'm not interested :rolls_eyes:
There's a lot of people who would be pretty jazzed to have these on the go, hope it comes out and I hope that means we're getting a tasty Direct soon.
While I'd love to see any Assassin's Creed game on the Switch due to the IP's popularity, AC III is admittedly one of the weaker entries in the series. I'd rather see some of the games in the series that precede its release. I'd also like to see Black Flag and Rogue as well.
The switch version will be releasing later than the other versions and therefore it makes sense to announce it later. Announcing it later Nintendo hopes to remove talk about a delayed version that would no doubt have been if it where announced now. My guess is that we will see it in a direct in a week or two (fingers crossed)
@Darthroseman I'm one of those people. I have it on the wiiu but its busted, been wanting to replay it so this would be a perfect opportunity.
I think they are just waiting for their Nintendo direct to fill in this information. But also I hope they give us a release date for DLC#1 joker for Super smash bros. Than release who is Dlc#2 character.
Then a Metroid Prime Trilogy HD for switch during the direct (that would be a day one pick up for me. )
Why remaster a mediocre game anyway?
@Untempered-Link 29th March, lol, I see what you did there!
This is just part of AC: Odyssey season pass. Can get it in the AC: Odyssey GOLD edition for $45.
And you get a NEW game in the deal (and 2 more expansions) that is better than AC3.
No idea How it would be Direct worthy in the first place.
Looks like the Switch dodged a bullet there!! Hopefully we do get an Assassins Creed game, Black Flag, Rogue or the Ezio Trilogy
@Agramonte
Wrong. Yes, it was part of the season pass, but now is being released on PS4 as a stand-alone game
@diablo2 yeah so true, Bethesda and Panic Button say "hi" with Doom (and Doom Eternay), Wolfenstein II and Skyrim. But I would love me some Prey.
Ubisoft knows the Switch is doing extremely well, yet they still leave the console behind.
@Dman10 This is part of the AC:O season pass. It has been since launch. Everyone knew it was coming. The same that has 3 extra story mission and is 29.99 on PS4 right now. Or You can get the actual new AC for $35 that is better in every way.
This Wasn't a big announcement On PS4. It would be a joke if they "saving it" for a Direct.
I'm preeetty confident this is coming to Switch. They'd be idiots to not put this on Switch given 2 years of killer success and the fact it can easily run.
It's probably gonna be announced separately. But if it's not, I'll stop buying Ubisoft games point blank until they re-evaluate their priorities. Dead serious too. I'll cancel Trials Rising in a heartbeat.
This isn't a big enough announcement to hold back for a direct so it looks like it's not coming. Not really a game of be interested in anyway but I'd take Black Flag
I already own III and IV on WiiU. No need to double dip. Ubisoft should create a new AC for the Switch from the ground up. Now that would show support to Nintendo's fans.
No Switch massive lost sales. Good management gota hand it to ya you know how to kill a game before it gets out.
Damn. I hope they release it later on the Switch.
I'm actually replaying AC3 right now on 360. Definitely gonna pass on this if it's like anything like Rogue Remastered
I really liked this game, but the ending is just so bad, it ruins the entire game. AC IV I believe, it's a better game.
Direct incoming...
It’ll come to the switch most likely. But also most likely, it won’t come the same day as Microsoft or Sony gets it. Per usual
I still wouldn't be surprised if it happened. Also, Ubisoft said it's not just a port, they're updating and retooling aspects of the game mechanics and level design to make it to address a lot of complaints people had about it, which is pretty cool.
“ready for a surprise reveal in a theoretical future Nintendo Direct”
What’s a Nintendo Direct!
Ubisoft doesn’t like money it seems. Nah can’t be true.
We’ll see a Switch announcement soon.
Just wait for a Nintendo Direct announcement you all say. You also said the same thing for the Spyro remake collection. We've all seen where that has gotten us. Companies are still very finicky with the Switch, it seems.
The question is: Why remaster AC III at all? Having played it back in the Wii U days, I can't say it was a bad game but I don't feel the slightest need of ever playing it again. Just the idea of having to go through the animus sections again... ugh!
Anyway, if the had to remaster AC, why not go for one of the popular ones like IV instead?
Meh, I got most of the AC games on 360 for free with my Gold Sub. Why would I ever need to buy an AC game when XBox just gives them to me for free eventually?
Meh I rather take a ZombiU sequel over this.
@retro_player_22
Was so hyped for that game, played it for maybe half an hour and never touched it again.
AC3 was my first Assassin's Creed. I started it and grew bored with the tutorial and put it away.
I came back to it and realized I wasn't even playing the best part of the game. After I started playing as Connor, I really enjoyed myself and I didn't understand why so many people gave it crap. I've played Black Flag and AC2 as well. Black Flag was also great but 2 was a little dull for me.
I will probably not buy it again if it comes to the Switch, but I would encourage anyone who hasn't played it to do so and don't give in to the naysayers.
@AlexSora89 exactly, especially when the CEO from Nintendo was asked about the Directs he said that they won't change their announcement way even thought this one (the last one) is/was out of the schedule time.
The cover art is too real to be a placeholder. I bet they are holding this off for the next Direct.
This doesn't deconfirm the III+Liberation Switch combo pack does it? Ubisoft just announced that III remaster would be available for non-season pass owners of AC Odyssey.
I feel like the combo pack for Switch is still on.
@NoxAeturnus
I didn't! I merely joked (sorry) about Joker's likely presence in whatever the next Direct is going to be. As a matter of fact, though, this presents us with a scary thought. What if, dare I say, Smash DLC coverage is required for the next Direct to be? Because that results in two problems.
For one, this means the Direct and Smash go hand in hand. Which, given the time needed for a DLC Smash character, would frankly explain quite a damn lot. Until Joker is halfway ready to be gameplay trailer material, we're going to play a long waiting game. And this is the lesser of two evils.
The bigger problem is the one elephant in the living room we're all afraid to address. I'm a Smash fan and a standalone Joker trailer would suffice to me, but I'm talking as a Switch user with enough of a backlog (I have that saint of a girlfriend I have to thank for it, with her getting me the Switch port of TWEWY with me finding out only after the purchase) to avoid the eShop for weeks, if not months; the question is, how barren is Nintendo's schedule, if a Smash reveal is going to be so vital for a Direct to even happen? Now, we're far, far, like light-year-far away from the disastrous Wii U era, but this is still not a good sign. Not only that: extending to non-Nintendo software, forcing third-parties to keep their mouths shut for Nintendo themselves to reveal the games - even when they're ports of older games - paints quite a damning picture of Nintendo's own schedule.
Or maybe a Direct will be announced tomorrow. F#%$ed if I know.
@Wexter I want prey so bad on switch played the demo on ps4 and loved it but I want to play on the go and with motion control if possible, (toughtthe dualstick was to slow on ps4 to fight the mimic)
@MysticGengar
Like a fiddle.
@MisterDevil
Why, is there an exact schedule? Is it even supposed to exist? (The schedule, I mean. Not the Direct itself.)
@AlexSora89 Honestly I was thinking Smash would be the key for events until the Fighters Pass is over. Before Piranha Plant was released out of nowhere, I thought it would've worked like the following:
1. January 2019 Direct Mini - Piranha Plant release date and amiibo announcements
2. Direct in March/April - Joker details including release date around April, tease character #2, more amiibo announcements
3. E3 - Character #2 details including release shortly after the presentation, tease character #3, more amiibo announcements
4. Direct in September - Character #3 details including release date around September, tease character #4, more amiibo announcements
5. Game Awards - Character #4 details including release shortly after the event, tease character #5
6. January 2020 Direct Mini - Character #5 details including release date around February, more amiibo announcements
Well, I guess I'll chime in. I'm guessing it'll pop up in a Nintendo Direct later this month. No real reasons, just a guess. I probably won't pick it up... maybe when it gets super cheap, but still then only maybe. Assassin's Creed III and Unity were pretty average to me; The Ezio games, IV, and Syndicate were a lot better to me. Plus I still own my Wii U copy of III so I could always just replay that. We'll see if it ends up being real.
@Grumblevolcano
I'm afraid that yes, the way you imagined the schedule to be like makes a frightening amount of sense. Going deeper, there's also the fact the Directs' pace might even be more lethargic than we predicted, what with Piranha Plant's surprise release being Nintendo's way to silently tide us over the unbearable wait for the next Direct.
However, on the bright side, the implication of all fighters from the Pass being third-party becomes more plausible given that first-party properties (if hailing from already represented franchises, E.G. a Pokémon character) would most likely result in picking one of the cut past stages from the vanilla release (see above image for the reasoning explained here) especially taking the music track pack into account. The fact every character comes with an additional arena and a bunch of music tracks means only third-party-fighters-only in a best-case scenario and, in an average-to-worst scenario, characters from unrepresented franchises (StarTropics, to name the first one that comes to mind - also the fact Cloud came from the seventh installment of a series makes Matthew from Golden Sun Dark Dawn one glimmer of hope for the GS franchise, to @LaserMasterA's likely delight).
One of the worst AC games....
@BenGrimm I touch it again.
I'm really tired of this direct speculation by now.
"Metroid Prime 4 was scrapped and restarted by Retro."
"Hmm...🤔"
"A DIRECT MUST BE COMING!"
Give me a break... 🙄
I super agree on Black Flag and Rogue. @Blitzenexx
No real loss here by any reasonable metric. Every generation it’s the same complaints from Nintendo adopters. No games... no AAA games...
C’mon guys, you know Nintendo is not going to get every AAA release that comes down the chute. That hasn’t happened since the SNES days and call me whatever you want, but it honestly doesn’t bother me.
If you find yourself upset and full of envy, just get a damn PC or PS4.
To be honest I would prefer Ubisoft to port Assassin's Creed: Ezio Collection for the Switch.
@NotTelevision No one is listening cause they're complaining. It has been like this since the internet was invented and the complaints came from all platform consumers and fanboys, not just Nintendo.
@NotTelevision switch is capable of running these games and i rather have black flag over 3 any day.
@PrincessBowsette.. Maybe you didn't see the video of the remastered version.... Even ps4 struggles to keep up.
I thought something was off when the "box art" from that European had the ESRB rating system rather than the PEGI rating.
Also I wouldn't hope for a direct anytime soon, if there was they would've held off on announcing Yoshi and even Darksiders for it. At this rate I wouldn't be surprised if we don't get a direct until E3.
I'm not sure if anyone else would agree. But I thought AC 3 was one of the worst in the series! A three hours tutorial as 1 character, then another 4 as another character. Uninteresting mission design, boring assassinations and of the two characters you play, you spend a majority of the game as the boring one..... why are they "Remastering" this game XD
@PixelTavern That’s one of the central problems with this series. It either treats the player as if they never played a game before, or the system is so convoluted that it needs to be explained for 3 hours to understand. That is why the contextual tutorial of the Great Plateau (BOTW) felt so refreshing.
You have to really power through the opening slog of the first game to find something resembling gameplay. The AC sequels were better but still not great in this regard.
@NotTelevision Exactly. I haven't played origins and Odyssey yet so not sure what their tutorials are like. BOTW opening was amazing, as it wasn't so much a tutorial, but an introduction to a smaller area, before giving you the whole map. Off topic slightly but I also don't like that the latest AC uses the same climbing system as BOTW. Part of the fun to AC climbing was finding a route. Sure BOTW climbing was great too, but it worked in that world, AC I imagine would lose something by using that climbing system
@Anri02 Exactly! Black Flag is the game to bring to the Switch.
If they wasted a direct on the announcement of a remaster of one of the worst Assassins Creed games I'd be pissed. Just hurry up and give us some Animal Crossing news already!
@AlexSora89
Well Cloud was the most popular Final Fantasy character and FF7 was the most selling FF game.
I don't think the comparison stands since Matthew has barely an popularity and his game sold the worst out of the 3 games in the franchise.
@LasermasterA
The scenario you're hoping for is a switcheroo, then. Matthew's polygonal model becomes the assist while Isaac himself becomes playable. Would make sense, but I can't really guarantee anything.
@AlexSora89
Doesn't have to be a switcheroo. Chrom exists as a costume, a final smash and a playable character. Why can't Isaac be a costume, AT and a playable character?
It's just that I see Matthew being super unlikely. Nobody knows him, his game sold like crap, etc. The Cloud/Joker example doesn't fit him AT ALL.
@LasermasterA
Well, it seems we'll just have to wait and see!
Wait, wasn't this thread about Assassin's Creed?
lol I doubt the intended target audience for the remastered version are the folks who have already played ac iii +/- liberation but rather those who didn’t so ps4, xbox one only make sense.
@AlexSora89 normally January always has a direct. This year is the first since mayn years now where a direct is missing so... out of schedule
@MisterDevil
It's not merely about our silly sorry concept of "schedule" as much as Nintendo never doing what we expect them to do.
@AlexSora89 true true they kinda do what they want to do, which can be good as we have seen a lot of times
@MisterDevil
As long as the next Direct is even going to be worth the wait. According to an APPARENTLY credible leaker with a good enough track record, maybe this upcoming Direct isn't as far away in the future as we fear it to be - complete with the (to me at least) long overdue Maker announcement.
IF this is true of course.
@AlexSora89 exactly the lucky number should be 13 wink wink if it goes as it is ofc
@MisterDevil
The words "Maker 2" are something I'm trying to take with a grain of salt, but I can't. I can't help setting myself up for possible disappointment.
@AlexSora89 exactly. that's also the word which makes me suspicious and taking it with a graint of salt. Ofc it would be really mad-good if it turns out being true but.. well we will know it by the 13th I guess about all of it
@MisterDevil
Mario Maker is always interesting to look at when looking at the bigger picture - the first one was clearly intended to come to be far later down the line, and yet the plans were hastened when the Wii U started sinking; now we have a console that's its predecessor's (well, its home predecessor) polar opposite in terms of sales, but with an online service that has yet to justify not its entry fee, but the need of payment as a whole. A new Super Mario Maker would be vital in doing just that, so the grounds for the "unprecedented" scenario of players having access to Mario stage creation are there once again.
Basically, so, the Wii U's poor sales justified allowing something that was not officially possible until then, that is, creating Mario levels - what I call the "threshold philosophy" that Nintendo is so obsessed on following. Now, ironically, we have a console that's selling like crazy, and yet has problems with online - the one thing that, being the backbone of Super Mario Maker itself, would make a sequel a great way for Nintendo to win back the crowd.
@AlexSora89 exactly and imagine even on the WiiU Mario Maker went crazy! So many people played and still play it, thousands of thousands of maps were made and some of them were just ridiculous hard or funny, what would happen on the switch?? It will fly off the roof, sell like cupcakes and the Online would see a boost too even with all the rumors going on right now. I can't wait to make my own levels or to play levels from other players!
@MisterDevil
We'll have to wait until the next Direct and see if Nintendo has wisened up.
@AlexSora89 let's dream lol
@MisterDevil
Yep, definitely dream material.
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