User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Patrice Désilets leaves Ubisoft once again/@comment-177.80.45.151-20130508192355/@comment-4999424-20130509091620

They said that the modern story is the reason for the yearly releses but, with [Assassin's Creed Initiates] that show the modern story they don't need to relese every year. They can use ACI to tell the story the year(s) they don't release any game(s).