{"id":23241,"date":"2013-07-15T12:22:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T19:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=23241"},"modified":"2013-07-15T12:22:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T19:22:32","slug":"we-can-probably-expect-watch-dogs-4-to-launch-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/07\/15\/we-can-probably-expect-watch-dogs-4-to-launch-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"We can probably expect Watch Dogs 4 to launch in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"23241\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/WatchDogs.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/WatchDogs.jpg\" alt=\"WatchDogs\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23242\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ubisoft says it won&#8217;t even consider making a new game unless they see franchise potential. Speaking to [a]list daily via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2013-07-12-ubisofts-tony-key-its-a-blockbuster-world\">GamesIndustry International<\/a>, Tony Key, Ubisoft&#8217;s senior VP of sales and marketing, said that the expectation for multiple titles is a factor in greenlighting any new concept.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;That&#8217;s what all our games are about; we won&#8217;t even start if we don&#8217;t think we can build a franchise out of it. There&#8217;s no more fire and forget &#8211; it&#8217;s too expensive.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Key pointed out that Ubisoft operates in a &#8220;blockbuster world&#8221; and that they must fully commit to a project by matching the marketing spend to the development effort. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>We can probably expect Watch Dogs 4 to launch in 2016 - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/07\/15\/we-can-probably-expect-watch-dogs-4-to-launch-in-2016\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We can probably expect Watch Dogs 4 to launch in 2016 - 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