Ubisoft has confirmed in a conference call that Prince of Persia Remake will be out before the end of their fiscal year, or before April 2022.
The Prince Of Persia Sands Of Time Remake may be closer to release than most expect, as its TrophyList appeared today on the PlayStation Network
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake has been in development hell since the reveal trailer. With no expected release date retailers are no longer taking pre-orders.
I rather some talented fans remake the game. It's getting to the point where fans are better suited at remakes and I rather give them money for their work.
I like the Prince but I have a feeling Ubisoft will botch this remake up I might just pass on this now and play the game on older hardware. I have a feeling at launch when or if this game does come out I have a feeling it will be botched in one way or another.
From TheGamer: "The Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake has now been subject to multiple delays, with a fairly confident release date being pushed into 2022 until Ubisoft came along and postponed the game indefinitely. Even worse is that Ubisoft Mumbai and Ubisoft Pune have now been pulled off the project completely as the parent company takes a look at the progress made thus far and what can seemingly be done to salvage it.
Fans weren’t especially thrilled with the initial screenshots and footage of the revival when it was first announced last year, resulting in the first expected delay, but part of me is scratching my head when trying to think what exactly has doomed this game’s development to further misfortune. It’s a remake of a popular PS2 game with a focus on combat and parkour - much like Assassin’s Creed - so something must have gone seriously wrong for it to so spectacularly fall apart. Like seriously, what happened?"
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Well when the walls are caving in on you I'm not surprised. Ubisoft has been hurting for years. They were the big story before Activtison/Blizzard became the new whipping boy. It's finally catching up to them.
Here's how I think it happened
They saw people wanted a PoP remake
They thought they would cash in on this and do a remake as cheap as possible while not disturbing their main big studios
They got a lower experienced support studio all away in India to do the remake with a tight budget in mind thinking "Meh, they really want this, they'll buy it, this whole thing is going to be super cheap for us"
The reveal came and we all showed our total dissatisfaction because the game looked like a game which would have released two generations ago, it also showed how little Ubisoft cares about the franchise and it didn't help with all the other bad PR they've been receiving lately
They now freak the f*** out, try and crack the whip at the India studios to do as much as they can, thus delaying it
They review the work the two studios have done since then and realise that these studios aren't going to cut it
They now decide to get their main studio, who did the main PoP games in the past, to work on the remake, thus possibly delaying it further. "If you want something done right, do it yourself".
This has now generated bad PR, possibly caused conflict in the two India studios and most likely cost them even more if they had just decided to do it at their main studio from the start.
Nailed it.
The higher ups and investors needed to see a series of milestones set in place also, to show that they were on the proper track and timeframe to deliver a more impressive experience.
Either the timeframe wasn't being met or the attempted improvement wasn't impressive enough at the time of recent milestone reviews... so it got yanked.
I love The Sands of Time so much. People are upset over this news but to me it's good news for once from Ubisoft.
I want this remake done right, so I'm glad to hear that some of the originals devs are working on the remake. I just hope that there's none of that Ubi-junk infesting the game (grinding, skill trees, micro-trash-actions).
That said, the original games hold up just fine for me to this day, and I'll do another playthrough soon on my Xbox.
Lol yea that sounds about right, I'm just happy their trying to fix it.
It was bad and would have cost them a lot of sales imo, better to get it done right or not release at all.
You’ve forgotten the part where they tried to advertise the reveal by showing just how important it is to have an Indian studio working on a game starring a Persian character, despite the fact that Persia is now the Iranian province and not anywhere near India 😅😅😅
The usual individualist approach.
Also India is a massive, massive market.
It's UBI they most likely trying to include some Micro transactions, NFT's and XP boosters into the remake
What part of make a great game and gamers will support it don't these publishers understand. Gaming business isn't complicated
Manage budgets during development
Release quality games
Release most wanted games like splinter cell, prince of Persia, beyond good and evil and Rayman
That's BS right there! Final Fantasy VII remake took like 6-7 years if not more to deliver just a part of the whole game and now you people want to crucify Ubbisoft because they are taking one more year?
Ff7 remake is a massive remake of a game when characters didn't even look like people
Not a few hour platformer
Where you getting 7 years?
It was announced in 2015 and released in 2020
yeah it was announced on 2015 but it was in the works by then so there is you 6-7 year gap that I meantioned or do you really think they barely started developing in 2015?
Also how do you know that the remake of prince of persia is gonna be a few hours platformer? I could be a big sandbox game like an assassins creed game for that matter, you don't know.
While you are right to think a delay is fine and advisable. The scale and ambition of those two projects are vastly different.
Well hopefully it's got a mega upgrade and it looks like a remake because if it doesn't, especially after this long delay then I don't think I could justify getting it day one.
Hope the remake does well and shows Ubisoft that the Prince is ready for next gen.
If a game needed delays it's this. It looked like a PS3 game
Love PoP but zero hype for this. They better show a significant upgrade.
They must be doing a full graphical overhaul. I hope so. I'd play POP again, but what they showed a while back was not impressive.