Prince of Persia Remake and 5 Other Games Cancelled by Ubisoft

What a huge waste of time, bloody hell.

I thought the Prince of Persia game was ready to be shadow dropped. Crazy.

It got shadow dropped alright. Got kicked into a black hole.

Get it tf together Ubi.. use those people you were going to lay off to put all hands on deck on something big and intricate instead of making them jobless ffs.. this industry has gone to sh!+

Dude how bad was this remake for it to be cancelled this late in development, game was announced I don't even know how long ago and was suppose to release like two years ago

@WolfyTn they're probably just replace them with ai sadly

So Beyond Good and Evil 2 is still cooking? Lol

When was the last time Ubisoft was in the news for something good? Clown show company.

What a disaster.

I knew it ever since the moment they announced this remake. The whole thing seemed rushed and not being actively worked on.

What a total farce. I swear if Rayman is one of the cancelled games I will lose it.

Also, ‘transforming’ towards more boringly stale open-world games that people are over, and creatively bankrupt GAAS that there’s a huge backlash towards. Stunning idea Ubi, just stunning. 🤦‍♂️

"This is all part of an all-new 'major company reset' that's designed to 'reclaim its creative leadership'.
So of course they had to scrap 3 new IPs 🙄

"Ubisoft wants to 'return to exceptional levels of quality on the open-world adventure segment.'" Which I guess means just making Assassin's Creed games now and forever.

Not surprised, I'm way more selective on games I buy, due to a lot of games focusing way too much on graphics and only last 15-20 hours . Ubisoft have severely dropped the ball in the last 10 years

The Sands of Time remake was first announced over 5 years ago! I can't even imagine the level of mismanagement at Ubi.

Shadow dropped, more like sent to the shadow realm 😂😂😵😵😵💀💀👀😆

Sell the IP you dumb *****! Ubishit strikes again!

We are transforming Ubisoft’s operating model to produce exceptional quality games on the two core pillars of our strategy, Open World Adventures and GaaS-native experiences.

I sincerely hope you never reach Valhalla highs again in profit with your soulless bloated 50+ hours borefest. And I hope that every other GaaS try is another Hyperscape.

***** clowns.

Good lord this industry is so cooked

The one game I was interested from Ubisoft.

Ridiculous.

At least now I can write them off entirely.

They're guaranteed not to make money if they don’t release the game

So the remake we wanted is gone, splinter cell is MIA, BG&E2 is stuck in dev hell, and no news on Black Flag Resynced.

Ubisoft being ubisoft

Prince of Persia remake should have been an easy win, Jesus Christ

You give Beyond Good & Evil 2 a development cycle longer than the lifespan of a house cat, but you can't give another year to Sands of Time? What a silly company.

I want ubisofts properites to actually go to someone who can actually do something great with them.

I’m a bit surprised this didn’t happen sooner

I don't believe anything Ubisoft is saying. They probably made a great game but decided to put up the finger to fans because we actually wanted this remake, but in the triple A industry it's not about what we want anymore, it's about how they can swindle us with their generic trend-following trash. But hey at least there was that Metroidvania a couple of years ago The Lost Crown.

I always said games were much better and the industry was much healthier during and before the 7th generation, and now we the loyal gamers are nothing but slaves to the greediest and most corrupt publishers.

Ooh, I just remembered. They couldn't remake a pretty lineer action adventure game from 2000s for 7 years and we wait for them to remake AC4.

Thats wierd, considering the huuuge success they have with AC:Shadows

I feel like they doing the right thing tho. When something doesn't work out, you go to the whiteboard and wipe the parts that doesn't work while drawing solutions. Clearly the way they have operated wasn't working for the company and for the games they have been making in the last 4-5 years. I would even call it shovelware.

The old games support was the only good thing I could think of this company. Many people will loose the job, but if it helps to get a brighter future without fully losing the game and going bankrupt then it needs to be done.

They have like 10s of thousands of employees, some percentage will lose their job, but it means others can have it saved..if company busts tho, all of them will flood the job seekers.

I don’t know what’s happening at Ubisoft but they’re worse than Google for cancelling so many projects left and right and not knowing where to focus their efforts. That’s a huge waste of money, resources and time right there! I’m not surprised at all.

Profound sadness. RIP Prince of Persia.

@SuperSilverback no it wasn't, prince of persia remake would have been still an old game with old mindset stuck in time.

The gamers of nowadays don't care much of the old games anymore. People who used to play prince of Persia games are now mid 30s and are busy with careers and families.

Edit. If you follow steam charts you can notice that nowadays the biggest money drawers and popular games are the coop experiences with friends.

Gamers nowadays seek for a communication thrills and collective fun rather than shallow stories with arcade gameplay, which would have been a remake of an old game.

Story games should still be a bit part of gaming tho, but adult gamers are now a minority

The Sands of Time now sadly lost to the sands of time

Sadly not too surprising to see UbiSoft taking this approach, but it is mind boggling to scrap the Sands of Time remake when it seemed like it was near enough ready to go. I can only assume it was because they couldn't find ways to milk it with micro transactions 🤷🏻‍♂️

Unfortunately this leads on to the larger issue here, namely that UbiSoft are looking for IPs that they can leverage for "sustainable growth".
They make it quite clear with the statement "exceptional AAA games, when successful, have more financial potential than ever" that they're not focusing on what the player base wants, more what they believe will be a financial success, and we already know that UbiSoft have quite the disconnect between what they think gamers want, and what gamers actually want.
In short, it sounds like we're in for a lot more UbiSoft cookie cutter open world "go here, do this" template games.

@aethermath it's because the company is so big. They have too many CEOs and too many different studios that can't understand each other.

Somehow Beyond Good and Evil 2 is still not cancelled!
Rayman is neither an open-world adventure, nor GaaS, so I guess that's cooked.

Bruh, are you serious 🤦‍♂️🙄

Went from rumours of a shadow drop to being straight up cancelled, jesus.

This isn't a reset, this is falling back on a strategy that stopped working years ago.

@JDINCINERATOR …that would be the most mind-bogglingly stupid thing they could do, no company would ever do that. Talk about reaching.

They’re not going to urinate away 5 years of development just to give gamers a middle finger. Even Ubisoft isn’t that brain-dead.

How, just how. They reset development and then cancelled a REMAKE. It's an existing game you are just recreating in a new engine, how can you mess up so badly??
Ubisoft has been trending downward for a long time, but this takes the cake. Their downfall needs to be studied

Disappointing on more than one level, the future of Ubisoft does not look bright (for me).

Ubisoft used to be one of my favorite companies but it's just a complete you know what show now.

Man what a waste. Feel bad for the devs that have spent the last few years working on these games.

I feel like they really need to take a step back and stop trying to go all in on the AAAA market and create more focused titles instead of chasing trends. They’ve proven that they struggle trying to make big budget titles. Sure they gather hype but upon release they don’t hold up and the sales really fall off quick.

No remake? That's sad...
At least give us remasters of Sands of Time, Warrior Within, Two Thrones & Forgotten Sands.

The Guillemot family will run Ubisoft into the ground, and by the time they have done that, nobody will care because they keep letting players down with terrible mismanagement and low effort, lazy "AAAA" games.

@dskatter Well the industry is hitting new levels of stupid and we tend to take the bait, so expect it to continue. Let's remember what Yahtzee said-"Let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything tee-hee-hee."

Let Ubisoft cook, they know what they are doing.

This is an utter catastrophe.

Yvette needs to go man.

I would rather they remaster the trilogy Warrior Within was my personal favourite.

And once again, Prince of Persia gets lost into the sands of time...

Ok, I'll get my coat

I'm not seeing any mention of Rabbids at all. Did they just give up on that series? So far as I know, it was pretty prevalent back in the early 2010s. It even had a cartoon called Rabbids Invasion back in 2015-2018, which I actually watched some of (nowhere close to a masterpiece, but it did give me a few good laughs). Did pretty poor sales of Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope cause them to give up on it? That game is one of my most favorite games of all time, but I do admit it did sell pretty poorly.

Also sucks to hear about the Sands of Time Remake, I know a decent amount of people were looking forward to that one.

How bad must this have been to have it cancelled after 5 years of development and an overhaul?

It surely can't have been that far off releasing.

If it was nearly done and they scrapped it, it must have been in one sorry state 🙈🤣

If you can't remake a proven all-timer that fans were actively clamoring for, then I don't have faith in you to knock it out of the park with anything "new" you may be cooking up.

Ubisoft needs to be wrestled from the hands of that damn family. They are fumbling the company into irrelevance.

lmaoooooo after all that carrot dangling.

I usually don't enjoy complaining about these companies, I prefer positive commentary and talking about games I look forward to and etc. But wow, this is awful. I can't hold back, just an awful show from Ubisoft, and they are a mess right now.

Honestly, I think Ubisoft is done for. Their games had a lot of issues with feeling overly corporate for at least 10-12 years and now they've done nothing but burn consumer sentiment. I never played shadows, but I felt AC lost it's soul with Odyssey. They just have nothing to offer that anyone actually wants.

Myself, I just want a new Far Cry game, the sooner the better!

So this is Ubisoft saying to customers “If you want something apart from Far Cry or Assassins Creed, you are out of luck”.

It is a wonder how Star Wars Outlaws or Avatar Frontiers of Pandora ever got made at all.

Mind you, I loved AC Origins. The Egyptian setting was amazing.

Don't worry Ubi fans, they already moved everything of value into a new company and sold it to the Sheikhs. Everything will be fine!

I hoped the prince of persia would return but cant really blame them, the last one was a brilliant game that sold nothing and if its not at the standard its pointless carrying on.

I think I just going to give up hope for a new Rayman game.

Ass(creed) company.

I'm about to sink some time into Far Cry 3 and Blood Dragon after their (free) 60FPS updates landed today.

Cheers, Ubi.

@DiggleDog They did just unlock the framerate on Far Cry 3 Classic, Blood Dragon Classic, and Primal yesterday

These developers and studios are stretched too thin.
If you want to make a top AAA 90 plus game. Critically acclaimed.
Just make that game with most of your team on it.
We know that’s mainly what Nintendo and Sony do most of the time.

@DiggleDog there was literally a story on here yesterday or the day before about 60fps patches for a few of the older far cry games. That generated quite a positive response, judging by the comments.

A game 5 years in development and you scrap it. In the intrest of " making the company better" this was an easy win, but 5 years down the drain...really gotta ask why, was it so far behind, draining resources for nothing, id really love more info on this

This is a complete shambles by Ubisoft. I was really looking forward the the PoP remake. I guess I'll have to stick to the original.

I talk about this a lot, but there are many games and franchises that have a small but very vocal minority of people being hyped about them on forums, but in reality it's just a handful of dwindling boomers like me who played them since the SNES days.

In reality there is very little brand recognition amongst the bulk of active gamers today.

I say this about a different franchise every week, I think last week it was Speedball when I reminisced about the Amiga days. It will be something else next week.

They ain't gonna sell well. Don't be surprised by this cancellation.

It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone at this point, sadly. Ubisoft has been increasingly spiralling the drain in recent years, and it's no longer a question of if they collapse but when.

A shame, the 2D POP games were great.

F Ubisoft though, more layoffs as well 🤦‍♂️