The studio is exploring the possibility of creating a new company to attract investors, which would focus on selling key franchises such as Assassin's Creed. According to Bloomberg, the company plans to sell a stake in this new entity and has already begun negotiations with potential investors, including Tencent, as well as a number of international and French funds. The market value of the new company is expected to exceed Ubisoft's current capitalization of $1.8 billion.

At the moment, the process is still under discussion, and no final decision has been made. It is possible that Ubisoft may abandon this plan. Everything depends on the success of the upcoming release of Assassin's Creed Shadows, on which the company has high hopes. According to Ubisoft, pre-orders for the game are progressing steadily.

All of this is happening against the backdrop of yet another scandal surrounding the game in Japan.

A member of the Kobe City Council and the Hyogo Prefectural Assembly, Takeshi Nagase, has expressed his outrage at how Ubisoft approaches religious themes in the game. According to Nagase, it is unacceptable that the protagonist of Shadows can attack monks in temples or shoot arrows at such buildings. Nagase also dislikes how the famous Engyō-ji temple in Himeji is portrayed, "where Yasuke enters with dirty shoes and destroys the sacred mirror inside".

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