Ubisoft has confirmed that Watch Dogs Legion , Rainbow Six Quarantine, and Gods and Monsters will all be released as cross-generation games, meaning they will be on PS4 and PS5, and Xbox One and Xbox Scarlett.

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The news was announced by CEO Yves Guillemot in a Q&A session held after Ubisoft’s earnings for the first half of the 2020 financial year were revealed. Not only will the games, which were recently delayed from early 2020 slots , be available on PS5 and Xbox Scarlett, but they will also take advantage of the new features and hardware offered by the machines.Guillemot also mentioned that, in addition to Watch Dogs, Rainbow Six, and Gods and Monsters, there will be a further two AAA games released in the same fiscal year. These games have yet to be announced.“The five titles will be on this generation and next generation of consoles, and they will take full advantage of all the new features that are coming with the machines. Which are actually going to be extremely interesting for players, as you’ll be able to download new content a lot faster,” said Guillemot.“Players will experience better framerate, so there are lots of very good elements that will come with those new machines.”This change of plan puts the five games in a similar position to Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag, which was released on both the PS3 and Xbox 360 as well as the PS4 and Xbox One. Guillemot noted on the earnings call that releasing early on a new generation console is useful, despite the small install base, because the user base grows over time and Ubisoft can continue to sell to new users.The call did not reveal when the five games will be released, but it seems now that it's more likely to be around the Holiday 2020 mark than the summer months, with potentially a number of the titles kept as launch-day games for one of the consoles. Specific dates remain to be seen, with E3 2020 a likely place that they could be revealed, alongside the titles of the two mystery games.

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