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 🤦‍♂️

Saudi must be tightening the leash.

And everyone plus their mothers were swearing last week that this game was going to release this month.

I am done supporting this company.

More success from Ubisoft! They can’t stop winning. Cant wait for all the generic open world slop they churn out from now on.

Stopped believing anything Ubisoft says after they cancelled the Fenyx sequel.

@scottXedgar now that’s funny right there. Don’t care who ya are that’s funny.

Was anyone expecting anything good from Ubisoft at this point?

Oh no, anyway...

When they shutdown, ill hope the ip's (driver, Rayman, the division, Splinter Cell, ghost recon,...)get in the hands of some good studios!

Ahh, the usual "wonderful news".🙄
As always, Ubisoft can go 'flock' themselves.

Gee whiz! Ubisoft used way too many words to say:” screw the rest of yous, we are only going to focus on one type of cash cow.”Nevermind the fact that the industry is not that exclusive anymore. Seems like steady work, and solid games with a decent price ( especially when there is a fanbase already) beats a 1 in 300 chance of a smash success any day. This is the “my neighbor hit the jackpot in Vegas, so I’m ONLY vacationing there and I’ll also be rich!” Mentality

Aaand the covid bubble keeps on popping, both culturally and financially. Last week, Meta. Today, Ubisoft. Some of us have been warning about it for a while now, while being called doomers. Sure, there's no hard crash, but it's a considerable market and cultural correction.

@Coolmusic they would but they can’t seem to figure out their ass from their elbows ( not sure that translates in European )

Clowns! The lot of 'em

Here’s a serious thought though. A lot of the game companies seem to be dominated now with business people. Not rel gamers anymore. What would happen if people like the gamers here, and other sites banded together and started making games? I bet they would be amazing. By gamers for gamers.

Typical Ubisoft.

@Dogbreath I see part of your point, however oblivion remake sold very well.i think it just depends on the franchise. I mean really these companies aren’t starting from scratch. The writing and creative side is already there. The marketing is cheaper these days what with the interwebs and all. It’s mainly getting old graphics tech into a newer engine.

shadow cancelled, whoop whoop!! this has to be a first. maybe the ps2 versions of pop will get tossed at implicit conversion emulator now.

@Fartingale I'd be happy with that outcome.

@WolfyTn sounds to me like they are getting it together , and games that weren't up to par got cancelled , when they first showed off the prince of persia remake it looked awful , im guessing they saw what would be the final version and still weren't happy with it , better to can it vs letting a bad game out.

We need to maximise profits at any cost, regardless of what the customer actually wants..

Oh and quality, we need to focus on quality... And profits, but mostly profits...

i'm guessing the addtional resources are going to the splinter cell remake , assassins creed 4 resynced and assassins creed hexe. at least they are seeing the feed back they are getting into making these games better.

omg whatttttt

dude I am stunned.

I guess they skipped 8th grade economics class. You can't make money if you don't release products. At least that moron son of Yves is in charge to guarantee further failure.

Corporate speak for “game sucks, won’t make money”.

The last game I bought from ubi was The Lost Crown. Never buying any games from them ever again (at least not full price, maybe a deeeep discount). Trash company.

Unbelievable Geoff

@Art_Vandelay na bruv, probably Brexit mate, maybe WW2, or gangsta rap, maybe VAR, all of them are to blame mate…. Or poor people…. Just listing things people blame when anything they don’t like happens. Good on you. You do you pal

Thanks Ubisoft, your other titles were what I was supporting, thanks for giving me no reason to give you money then.
Yeah I'm so going to support the big titles I don't care about. XD They are just so stupid and don't get how people work.

Anything to make the profit spreadsheets look good I guess. Sigh.

Will just have to wait for the other unknown games to be revealed over time I guess. Open worlds and other IP branding it is future, how boring of you Ubisoft.

Mario Rabbids and Prince Of Persia Lost Crown will be my last and everything else will be retro Tom Clancy, Rayman, past Prince of Persia games or others from now on Second hand market money that won't be going to them at all.

I doubt they care to offer any of these on the PS+ for PS1/PS2/PSP at all either? Could have saved them tons of time and money that way if they thought for more then 2 seconds. I'd have liked to play a remake but even still.

Unless Splintercell remake (it will be open world too won't it, sigh, if so pass) continues I won't care at all for current Ubisoft games and I'm not even big into the Tom Clancy games I'm just exploring them like I am all other shooters of the 6/7th gen at the moment and really enjoyed them enough (not into their open world approach ones)..

You did this to yourselves Ubisoft killing off suitable variety titles for other audiences to get them interested in your products, then your generic money makers, I get the cost involved but they should have factored this in prior.

That or the other shareholders and ownership nowadays are ruining things which I can also see being the case, cut the fat and focus on the bigger IPs and push other audiences aside you could build up and get interested in your company's IPs, no why would they want to expand that way that would be stupid.

Yeah I'm so going to support the big titles I don't care about. XD They are just so stupid and don't get how people work.

Us other titles interested audiences go elsewhere and they think we will just move over to their big titles, we won't and go elsewhere.

I don't care about a company enough to support their other IPs, I only buy the ones I'm interested in.

Looks like I'll stick to Nintendo for my variety as Ubisoft doesn't want to offer the variety they did before to approach many audiences and just expect others to move to their other titles. Which we won't.

As hit and miss Nintendo is, at least they offer the big IPs, the retro live services of Tetris/F Zero 99 and the niche stuff I'm buying more so from them and they have revived those IPs. I only care about Rhythm Heaven Groove this year and it's great the singer/producer is back after their sickness.

@Matthewnh coz they are Litterally open world. They’ve said they want to focus on open world. They kinda have a formula for those and seem to struggle doing anything else. Not saying their open world are perfect/ just saying what they said.

Look on the bright side. These devs are better off forming their own studios than being with Ubisoft.

That's crazy all that time.they could of release the game.now you cancel prince of Persia the sands of time remake.come on now.word up son

This is what massive mismanagement and lack of direction gets you.

So…Splintercell? What’s going on?

The top brass at Ubisoft are as useful as a fart in a windstorm.
They’ve been sitting on great IP & either not using it, or bastardising all of the Tom Clancy titles.

Splinter cell Vr could’ve been great.
A remake of Rainbow Six Vegas would be awesome.
And my hopes of the current Splinter Cell remake are fading fast.

Just give me the Division 3 already!

It’s been years since 2.

I honestly expected the POP Remake to be cancelled, I wonder where they will cancel BG&E2?

Damn, have been waiting so long for the next Ghost Recon.

As a company, Ubisoft is like a zombie. It's been dead for quite some time but it still moving aimlessly.

"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."

Funny how they say about creative leadership but only focus on open world and gaas. But I guess Splinter Cell remake also cancelled and no more Rayman.

Yeah Ubisoft is cooked 🔥

Whoever had "sources" that said Prince of Persia was going to be shadow dropped when it was actually being cancelled... they need better sources lol

Not everything needs to be AAAA

Just let the people that made The Lost Crown and the Mario v Rabbids games go and start their own company. I have no interest in anything else to do with Ubisoft. Beyond Good and Evil 2 should be canned because these idiots can't get it right anyway.

They're "resetting" quite a lot. Reminds me of my old NES. I stopped using my NES a long time ago xD

this is one of those times where it's a blessing to not receive a piece of hot trash from ubisoft. i can say that the world is better off that this remake doesn't exist. i never understood the business side of it seeing as there are very few people who would play it in the first place. it is a true platforming, puzzle game with very light combat sequences thrown in. it was simply too niche to warrant a remake. a barebones remaster will suffice for most people if ubisoft can handle it that is.

as for the rayman games currently in development... i hope those turn out well. the last 2 games are all-time classics and among the best platforming games of all time.

Oh dear. However, I bet they still didn't spend as much as Sony did on Concord.

“Stop development” is an interesting choice of words. Yes for our purposes SoTR is cancelled, and tbh while a massive disappointment Ubi needs to get its sh! together and focus. Maybe they’re leaving the door open to revisit it at a later date. But damn it better be a shadow drop with none of this leak business – to edge the fans for 5 years just to cancel it’s a real middle finger regardless of it being the best decision. I wonder if AC4 remake has been cancelled too. Embracing Ai is also a massive ick, especially when people are losing jobs. Ubisoft really needs to work hard to establish its integrity again – hopefully this drastic a decision helps. Feel really sorry for the people losing jobs.

Prince of Persia getting cancelled while the Beyond Good and Evil sequel gets the save. I can't with Ubisoft, man...

Ubisoft was my favorite game company for years. Their games were innovative, superbly made, and very enjoyable. Then they just started releasing one carbon copy of "the formula" after another. I kept buying, and kept getting disappointed. It's nice they are changing their approach, but saying they will focus on live service and open world just means it's going to be more of the same greedy corporate business shenanigans. They've burned me too many times. I'm out, and not coming back.