{"id":13435,"date":"2020-11-20T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/far-cry-6-delayed-to-february-2021\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:00:36","slug":"far-cry-6-delayed-to-february-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/far-cry-6-delayed-to-february-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Far Cry 6 Delayed to February 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Far-Cry-6.jpg\" alt=\"Far Cry 6\" class=\"wp-image-18249\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ubisoft announces that the Far Cry 6 release date for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowerpc.com\/category\/gaming-pcs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gaming PC<\/a> and console has been pushed back into the next fiscal year. The announcement came during the company&#8217;s latest financial earnings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During its quarterly earnings report, Ubisoft explained the impact of COVID-19 on the company and the development of new games. This is why they decided to move Far Cry 6 and Rainbow Six Quarantine to the Fiscal Year 2021-2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ubisoft begins its Fiscal Year after March, which puts Far Cry 6&#8217;s new release date sometime between April 2021 and March 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ubisoft Yves Guillemot further explained that Far Cry 6 and Rainbow Six Quarantine could have been released on time if the COVID-19 pandemic didn&#8217;t happen. Guillemot said that the developers are still optimizing its work to better suit the current work-from-home conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Far Cry 6 has an original release date of February 18, 2021. It is still unclear when the new release date is other than it is set after Ubisoft&#8217;s next fiscal year, along with the Rainbow Six spinoff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Far Cry 6 is the next game in the Far Cry series. It takes place on an island called Yara, which is ruled by a dictator named El Presidente. He is training his son, Diego, to follow in his footsteps. However, there is a revolution brewing in Yara. And the player takes the role of one of its guerilla fighters named Dani Rojas, who strives to free the nation from El Presidente&#8217;s dictatorship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Far Cry 6 will be released for Microsoft Windows, Amazon Luna, Google Stadia, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X\/S. Ubisoft confirmed in a statement before that the game will feature a free upgrade to next-gen consoles for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One game owners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Far Cry 6 and Rainbow Six Quarantine release dates have been moved. Assassin&#8217;s Creed Valhalla and Watch Dogs Legion have been released.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubisoft announces that the Far Cry 6 release date for gaming PC and console has been pushed back into the next fiscal year. The announcement came during the company&#8217;s latest financial earnings. During its quarterly earnings report, Ubisoft explained the impact of COVID-19 on the company and the development of new games. This is why&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/far-cry-6-delayed-to-february-2021\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Far Cry 6 Delayed to February 2021<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":13179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2724,2732,2741],"tags":[6304,6510,6306,6307,6308],"class_list":["post-13435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-games","category-gaming-reviews-news","tag-far-cry-6","tag-far-cry-6-2021","tag-far-cry-6-news","tag-far-cry-6-release-date","tag-far-cry-6-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21113,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13435\/revisions\/21113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}