Talk:Porsche 918 Spyder with Weissach Package/@comment-99.239.230.127-20170719165723/@comment-32577183-20170719194718

Asphalt 9 was never actually confirmed, was only mentioned in a shareholders meeting to get more potential investors interested in the company.

For example you can take GTA 6 or Elder Scrolls 6 as an example, we know that they're probably going to be released at some point, however they are not confirmed.

Let me give you some important dates


 * February 2016, Vivendi acquired a 30% stake in Gameloft - Vivendi wanted a majority in the company, and planned to take over.


 * March 22 2016 Gameloft has a shareholders meeting to generate interest in the company, they discuss what potential investors could expect out of Gameloft in the future - sadly this did not work out and not enough money was generated.


 * Michel Guillemot (gameloft CEO) Attempted to block Vivendi's hostile takeover in court, failed


 * June 29 2016 Michel Guillemot resigns as CEO, forced to sell shares to Vivendi


 * By the end of June 2016 Vivendi had a 61.7% majority stake in gameloft.


 * As of 1 July 2016 Vivendi owns 96.9% of the company with the management replaced to reflect Vivendi's ownership

Gameloft is under completely new management, They might make asphalt 9 one day, but they're milking Asphalt 8 for all its worth right now.

Asphalt 9 was never confirmed,it was a marketing tactic for gameloft management to get new investors so that they could block Vivendi's takeover, since when asphalt 8 was released gameloft's share prices went up drastically due to the game, so by teasing asphalt 9 potential investors could predict that they would a large return on their investment if/when asphalt 9 came out, and thus making investing at gameloft before that point more favourable.

Asphalt 9 Could come out this year, but its most likely not going to. Another thing to consider is that months before Asphalt Xtreme/Nitro/Streetstorm there was alot of advertisement and publicity around they're release, if asphalt 9 was really going to come out this year don't you think we would have gotten more information by now? Moreover, they released porsches in asphalt 8, but if asphalt 9 was going to be released soon wouldn't gameloft leave out porsches in 8 to use porsches as a big selling point to get more people to leave 8 and go to 9?

This could all be hogwash but thats just my perspective on it.