Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake will launch 'very quickly,' Ubisoft exec says, however he additionally namedropped Splinter Cell for no obvious motive so possibly he's nonetheless simply messing with us
It has been 5 years for the reason that Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake first leaked out of the Russian Uplay retailer, and whereas a lot has occurred since then, one factor that positively has not occurred is the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake. It is principally Cranium and Bones redux: Repeated delays, a studio change, a whole-ass reboot, extra delays, extra studios, and most lately a really humorous social media mishap that prompted a promise that Ubisoft is certainly nonetheless engaged on the sport, “behind the scenes.”
I might be remiss if I did not additionally level out that it has been 4 years since Ubisoft introduced a full remake of the unique Splinter Cell, which has by some means made even much less progress: When final we checked, Ubisoft celebrated 10 years of viciously trolling Splinter Cell followers by mixing up pictures of Sam Fisher.
Hope dies arduous, although, and so my ears perked up when each video games obtained a point out throughout the Q&A portion of Ubisoft’s latest Annual Common Assembly. Nothing concrete about both recreation was introduced—that is probably not what AGMs are for—however when it comes to possibly this time, Prince of Persia followers positively got here out on prime.
In response to a query about Tencent’s funding into Ubisoft and the new spinoff entity the 2 at the moment are launching, chief monetary officer Frederick Duguet defined in very normal phrases how the money can be unfold round, together with that among the cash will return to Ubisoft for use “selectively” for future growth of different manufacturers, and to “enhance our dwell video games.”
“As you realize, we have got some iconic model names in our catalog that we are able to both activate or reactivate with little funding,” Duguet stated. “This goes to the remake of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which goes to be launched very quickly, and even Splinter Cell in a while.”
Essentially the most lately supplied launch goal for the Sands of Time Remake was someday in Ubisoft’s 2026 fiscal yr, which ends March 31, 2026. That is now eight months away, which I do not assume qualifies as “very quickly,” though relative to how issues have gone thus far? Yeah, possibly.
Extra doubtless, although, is that Ubisoft is focusing on (or at the least actually hoping for) a launch for the vacation 2025 season, which places it throughout the subsequent 5 months, and significantly much less if we assume Ubi does not wish to drop it three days earlier than Christmas.
I am unable to say that window feels moderately strong, however it feels comparatively strong, and positively a number of massive steps forward of poor ol’ Splinter Cell, which seemingly stays trapped in growth limbo. Why Duguet would even carry it up like that is past me, besides that possibly PC Gamer’s Fraser Brown was proper all alongside when he wrote that Ubisoft is simply trolling us for bizarre kicks. That was 5 years in the past, too.