Just minutes before it was set to deliver its financial results for the first half of its 2025-26 fiscal year, Ubisoft mashed the brakes on the whole thing, postponing the release of its results to an unspecified future date. The company also requested that European exchange Euronext halt trading of the company’s shares and bonds from November 14 until the publication of its results.
They tried to build a lot of hype around the game and get people to preorder. Maybe those numbers were (far) below expectations?
I don’t think that alone would justify this move, even if they didn’t sell a single pre-order.