No Assassin’s Creed in 2016 as Ubisoft admits the series is slowing down

It looks like the creed really does need a break.

While reporting its financial results for the third quarter of 2015-2016, publisher Ubisoft admitted that its Assassin’s Creed franchise is beginning to lose interest from consumers. It also confirmed that the franchise will take a break and not see a main series release in 2016. Assassin’s Creed was Ubisoft’s premier game franchise, so this break and decline in popularity could hurt the publisher’s bottom line this year. However, it only has itself to blame, especially after 2014’s Assassin’s Creed: Unity shoved a lot of fans away with its bugs and technical issues. The console market is worth tens of billions of dollars, but losing a major franchise like this could negatively impact it (even if just slightly). For context, the yearly Call of Duty releases have made more than $10 billion in a decade for Activision.