Over two years after it was introduced, Ubisoft remains to be engaged on The Division 3. And whereas it has but to point out off the sport, its chief developer has stated he thinks it would have as huge an affect as The Division 1.
The Division 1 was introduced at E3 2013 with a trailer that went down as one of the vital talked about of the present. After a sequence of delays, The Division launched on March 8, 2016, breaking gross sales data for Ubisoft. The Division 2 adopted in 2019, though it did not make as huge a splash at launch as its predecessor.
Whereas there’s no launch date for The Division 3, the hope is Ubisoft will present it off in some unspecified time in the future this 12 months. Now, Julian Gerighty, government producer of The Division franchise at Ubisoft’s Large Leisure, has supplied a quick however tantalizing replace.
Talking through the New Sport+ Showcase 2026, Gerighty stated: “So, The Division 3 is in manufacturing, proper? This isn’t a secret. It has been introduced. It is shaping as much as be a monster. I am unable to actually say something greater than that. However that is, inside these partitions in Large, we’re working extraordinarily onerous on one thing that I believe might be as huge an affect as Division 1 was.”
That’s not a lot to go on, however clearly Ubisoft is hoping that The Division 3 will rekindle reminiscences of The Division 1, which was actually a sizzling matter when it was introduced and loved big gross sales when it will definitely got here out. The stress is on to ship, particularly with Ubisoft’s latest high-profile struggles.
In the meantime, assist for The Division 2 continues with numerous updates, and a crew in Paris is placing the ultimate touches of a The Division cell sport. The Division Heartland, a free-to-play spin-off, entered improvement in 2020 however was canceled in 2024.
Two months in the past, Large Leisure launched what it referred to as a ‘voluntary profession transition program,’ (the studio requested its employees to volunteer to be laid off) as a part of a transfer to give attention to The Division franchise and its Snowdrop sport engine. It got here as a part of important restructuring at Ubisoft that has seen a number of studio closures and rounds of layoffs. Large Leisure’s Star Wars Outlaws, launched in 2024, was an enormous gross sales disappointment for Ubisoft, regardless of important improvement and advertising prices.
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