Star Wars Outlaws 2 cancelled by Ubisoft claims insider

Ubisoft’s disappointment with the sales of Star Wars Outlaws has led to the cancellation of a sequel, but it’s Lucasfilm they blame.

Star Wars Outlaws may have been a useful evolution of Ubisoft’s usual open world formula, but sales wise it has been far from a success story.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot recently highlighted how the game had fallen short of sales expectations, where he blamed its failure on the overall Star Wars brand being in ‘choppy waters’ when it released last year.

Guillemot’s comments conveniently ignore the fact that Star Wars Outlaws launched in a pretty buggy state, and with a lofty £69.99 price tag, but whatever the reason for its poor sales, it seems a sequel is now out of the question.

According to insider Tom Henderson, Ubisoft ‘recently’ cancelled a sequel to Star Wars Outlaws, which was ‘very, very early’ in development.

‘[Ubisoft] also recently cancelled Star Wars Outlaws 2 because that was planned and in the works,’ Henderson said on the Insider Gaming podcast (at around the 46:40 mark).

He claimed the project was in the pre-production phase, adding: ‘It was very, very early… but they looked at Outlaws 2 and thought, yeah let’s not do that.’

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