User blog comment:ACsenior/AC update: AC in the "future"?/@comment-5638823-20130405092334/@comment-5019018-20130407174310

@Fairy- Four to five years? This isn't The Elder Scrolls, where almost every NPC has to be unique, a huge map to be designed and made properly so you don't clip into it, and with a wide range of interactive objects. I am now comfortable with the one year wait, Ubisoft is quite large, they have enough teams to develop parts of games ahead of time, and I'm sure they can manage it, so I see no issue.

Note: I said "huge" instead of "large" so that no-one mentions IV's apparent map size.