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The bad news regarding Ubisoft seems to be piling up lately, and it’s no wonder because perhaps the only big hit they’ve had in 2024, The new Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, which dressed as an excellent metroidvania, ended with the dismantling of the studio who developed it and who were mostly at Ubisoft Montpellier. All this yesterday was just a rumor, but it seems that the Ubisoft confirmed everything to Eurogamer.
Taking this for granted, the company says that the team behind The Lost Crown has moved on to other projects that will benefit from their experience and that Ubisoft is focused on bringing the game “to more players.” Here enters Insider gameswith new reports claiming that this decision, and the cancellation of a supposed sequel to Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, was decided in May.
They don’t report layoffs, but they do report moves to other games.
And here is the bad side of the news, because it is true that the information provided by Tom Henderson himself via Insider Gaming comments on the projects they left for. One of them is the famous Beyond Good and Evil 2, but a dozen of them went to “Project Ovr”, the next Ghost Reconwhile others went “Project Steambot”, a remake of Rayman in development at Ubisoft Milan. Henderson doesn’t usually fail with Ubisoft, so we can assume the good news.
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The problem with dismantling the development team comes from the expectations Ubisoft had with the title, which it believed would sell as the best Metroidvania released to date. But in the end, it only achieved one million sales across all platforms. A significant figure, but very far from the objectives.
