In a recent interview with Edge, Ubisoft's vice president of creative Lionel Raynaud discussed the future of Assassin's Creed and the company's decision to continue supporting last-gen consoles.

"We will have games for PS3 and 360 for this year and probably the years after," Raynaud said. "We want to be able to provide games to people who are playing on these consoles."\

This makes plenty of sense, of course, as there are around 160 million combined PS3s and Xbox 360s already in consumers' hands. That install base dwarfs the Xbox One's and PlayStation 4's numbers, though they've only been out since late 2013.

Raynaud also spoke to Assassin's Creed's popularity, and the large number of new games in the series appearing on store shelves every year.

"We are able to offer people a new Assassin's Creed every year because they want Assassin's Creed's every year. As long as this is true we would be very stupid not to satisfy this need, but it puts a lot of pressure on us to create something that will never disappoint.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/03/28/ubisoft-would-be-very-stupid-not-to-make-yearly-assassins-creeds

That's stupid. If they had been continuing with the story then I would like this, but since they killed it off there's really no point of releasing annual games. I'd rather have them spend a good amount of time producing a good game, then releasing it, rather than one every year.

I hadn't finished 3 by the time 4 came out, and I still haven't played 4, now there's another one coming out. It's getting ridiculous.

Eh, welcome to the modern World of games. Ubisoft is a big enough company where they can pass the development of each game around, like the CoD series. I guarantee you the next two games in the series are already been worked on by other studios already. They have the resources to churn them out every year and people keep buying them, so there you go.

I've never played this game either, for the record. Waiting for PS Plus to give me the first one free...

I've beaten all of them except Liberation, and that's because the PC port has to go through a stupid Ubisoft thing that freezes when I try to launch the game <_<


Edit: As for the story, there's plenty of story to go off of.  If you've played 4 thoroughly on the outside of the animus you see plenty of elements of the actual story still shining through.  I looked at this game as kind of a rest game to focus on the pirates and such.  How the next two games coming out this year go will determine the truth of the matter though.

Quality > Quantity

^ Tell that to the COD nerds.

Heard that the next AC will be set in France. Whether that's true or not, it makes me think that AC V will just be AC III with a different look. Hope they could find some features to make the game standout, but I don't see it happening or any kind of big and new improvement if they release the AC games annually.