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?"
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.
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?
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Good, Prince of Persia Remake looked horribly insulting to the original, like a 4k paintjob slapped on maybe a PS3 era game. This is a good sign though to have such a huge pushback. Maybe they're completely overhauling the visual style based on the negative feedback. Hopefully it doesn't get stuck in development hell. I do want to play it! I just want to see it get the remake treatment it deserves, because Sands of Time is such a classic. :)
I don't want to come off mean sounding, but I have 0 interest in either of these games. I think the only game I want from Ubisoft is a true Splinter Cell game and I'm curious what Beyond Good & Evil 2 will be like. Other than that, I hate almost everything this company pukes out.