Ubisoft has sadly confirmed one other Prince of Persia Remake delay, stating that it’s “not focusing on a FY23 launch” in an announcement to IGN. The 2023 fiscal yr ends on June 30, 2023, so the sport might nonetheless arrive within the latter half of subsequent yr, however Ubisoft has not given an up to date launch window for the remake. The official announcement of the delay comes after retailers like GameStop started delisting pre-orders for the sport.
Ubisoft responds to sudden pre-order cancellations for Prince of Persia Remake
Ubisoft reassures followers that the Prince of Persia remake has not truly been canceled and that the sport’s growth by Ubisoft Montreal goes nicely after being transferred from Ubisoft Pune and Ubisoft Mombai. The writer states:
The event of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake will now be led by Ubisoft Montreal. We’re pleased with the work achieved by Ubisoft Pune and Ubisoft Mumbai, and Ubisoft Montreal will profit from their learnings as the brand new staff will proceed the work to ship an ideal remake.
As a consequence, we’re not focusing on a FY23 launch anymore and the sport has been delisted. If gamers want to cancel their preorder they’re invited to contact their retailer. They are going to be up to date on the mission as the event is shifting alongside.
Amazon stopped taking preorders since round Might twenty fourth https://t.co/WSqWoayt2N
— Wario64 (@Wario64) June 3, 2022
On the time of this writing, GameStop not has an official entry for the Prince of Persia remake. Amazon nonetheless has a web page for the sport however marks it as “at the moment unavailable” for each PS4 and Xbox One. As such, pre-ordering the sport is not doable on both website (aside from this unusual entry on Amazon for the digital code on Xbox Sequence X).
This assertion comes after nameless sources compiled by Substack publication 0451 Video games claimed that Ubisoft had mishandled the manufacturing of the remake. They are saying that the event groups in India have been solely given a 10-page design doc and had little oversight from Ubisoft till the largely downvoted debut trailer of the sport launched in September 2020.
In different information, PS5 gross sales have handed 20 million with Sony promising elevated console manufacturing, and Guerrilla Video games is engaged on a Horizon Forbidden West VRR replace.
[Source: IGN]
