Watch Dogs News: Ubisoft CEO Discusses Release Date Delay, Gameplay for PC, PS4 and Xbox One [Trailer]

A huge amount of gamers were disappointed when it was reported that Ubisoft decided to delay Watch Dogs until the spring of 2014. The game was originally meant to be a launch title for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The game, which will also be coming to the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U and PC, was delayed around a month before release, causing a disruption of many gamer's plans for the launch of the next gen systems and left some gamers in a lurch over their preferred launch game getting pushed back.

Yves Guillemot, the CEO of Watch Dogs developer Ubisoft, spoke to Gamespot about the game's delay, and revealed a different take on the move. Guillemot stated that the quality of the game was not where Ubisoft wanted it to be, so the decision to delay the game will help Watch Dogs become the game fans have expected it to be:

"In fact, we playtested the game until the last minute. With the most relevant information in hand, the decision was the most relevant to take. What we saw in the playtests is that we were very close to the quality we wanted, but not exactly at the level. We thought that with more time we could give it a far bigger potential...So we think the best way to take care of this brand is to make sure it has everything it can be supplied to the customers that are expecting it."

Delays to open world game such as Watch Dogs are fairly common, as developers try to implement a smooth experience for players exploring the world and deal with the various technical problems that arise when games have that much area to cover. Not making sure that the game functions as well as it should have could have lead Watch Dogs to a similar problem that The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim had at launch where huge amounts of bugs caused the game to be far from perfect.

Of course, delaying a game to iron out bugs may not provide all the answers for developers trying to make sure a game is as good as it could be. Grand Theft Auto 5 was delayed, but the game's online mode was still very much broken when it was eventually released and the game still suffers from several bugs. Perhaps Watch Dogs will avoid this fate when it is released since Ubisoft will use these extra months to fine tune the game into a game of the year contender.