Watch_Dogs: Well-known Ubisoft action series about to end?

The well-known action series Watch_Dogs from Ubisoft is apparently about to end in terms of gameplay – even if a film adaptation is currently in the works.

There has been some news about Watch_Dogs in the recent past, even though it did not come from the core area of ​​previous video games. In addition to a manga, a film adaptation of the futuristic stealth action series with hacker themes was also announced.

Although a film adaptation is being pushed forward, things are apparently anything but good for the video game series itself. According to a renowned leaker, the Watch_Dogs series is apparently about to come to an end.

The prominent insider j0nathan took up the topic on Twitter and confirmed that, according to his information, the rather below-average commercial success of Watch_Dogs: Legion at Ubisoft led to several projects within the franchise being canceled. With the discontinuation of these originally planned titles, the game series as a whole is now “dead and buried”.

The games that were said to have already been in the works included a “quite original” battle royale game. Ubisoft has clearly explored new directions for the franchise as a whole, but these apparently will no longer see the light of day.

As early as 2022, there was speculation from YouTuber JorRaptor that Watch_Dogs had been secretly, quietly and quietly scrapped. At that time there were a number of departures from the responsible developers, including members of the previous senior staff.

Watch_Dogs debuted in 2014 and featured a technological setting centered around hackers in a fictional version of Chicago. The first part was quite successful and sold over 10 million copies by the end of the year, but the successor Watch_Dogs 2 was unable to build on that. The sequel took almost four years to bring the same number of copies to women and men, the third game Watch_Dogs: Legion performed even worse.