Ubisoft has disbanded the staff answerable for Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown, based on a brand new report.
YouTuber Gautoz, a part of the French YouTube channel Origami, reported the information on Tuesday, citing sources together with a number of builders from Ubisoft Montpellier.
Replace – Ubisoft responds
Ubisoft has now responded to the report, primarily confirming it to be true.
In an announcement to Eurogamer, the sport’s senior producer Abdelhal Elguess mentioned: “Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown is now on the finish of its Submit-Launch roadmap with three free content material updates and one DLC that launched in September. We at the moment are specializing in making the sport out there to extra gamers: it was just lately launched on Steam, and can be out there on Mac by this winter.
“A lot of the staff members who labored on Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown have shifted to different initiatives that can profit from their experience.
“We all know gamers have a love for this model and Ubisoft is happy to deliver extra Prince of Persia experiences sooner or later.”
In response to Gautoz, the sport’s preliminary gross sales have been decrease than anticipated, that means any chance of a sequel was successfully ended inside weeks of the primary recreation’s launch.
The report says that some members of the event staff pitched a sequel, which changed into a pitch for 2 DLC expansions as an alternative.
It additionally claims that Ubisoft’s justification for rejecting the sequel pitch was that the discharge of a sequel would cannibalise gross sales of the unique recreation, which have been already decrease than anticipated.
Gautoz added that from what he’d heard from his sources, The Misplaced Crown didn’t undergo from manufacturing points, and that the truth is the staff thought-about it a pleasure to make.
“I heard or learn ‘the perfect manufacturing of my life’ three or 4 occasions in a single weekend concerning the improvement of Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown,” he added on X.
“It offered each hope for one more means of making, and a rehabilitation zone for folks burned out by Past Good and Evil 2, however the staff was disbanded by Ubisoft.”
Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown was launched in January to a constructive vital reception, and presently has a Metacritic rating of 85-87 relying on format.
Nevertheless, the two.5D motion platformer had been met with a unfavourable response by the gaming neighborhood ever since its first trailer was launched throughout Summer season Recreation Fest in June 2023, which obtained simply 20% likes on YouTube.
