Other Ubisoft has disbanded the team behind Prince of Persia The Lost Crown

[cm2]

Read from neogaf:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1848742322319548852

from the reliable french game journalist "Gautoz" who heard from multiple devs at Ubisoft Montpellier the news.

Internally, the fate of the game was already decided a few weeks after the release of the game, it was clear in Spring that after releasing a few DLCs and Cosmetics it would be the end.

A few members of the core dev team fought to get a sequel greenlit which did not happen, then they pushed for two expansions hoping that it would work this time but it didn't since Ubisoft needed more hands to help on other projects that had a better sales potential which wasn't the case with Lost Crown not meeting sales expectations.

Another crazy justification that the dev team received from higher-ups was that releasing a sequel for the game would cannibalize long term sales of the first game.

 

[_Al]

"releasing a sequel for the game would cannibalize long term sales of the first game." Insane that people say this kind of thing with all seriousness.

 

[Dead2009]

We live in a gaming world where if the title isnt making MILLIONS of dollars and well received by critics, it's a failure.

 

[cm2]

not making millions aside, the game itself is bad as a prince of Persia game imo, and I am a big fan of the previous 3d Prince Of Persia games , especially the 2008 one.

The 2008 one

 

[froggyboy604]

It is strange that higher ups say " releasing a sequel for the game would cannibalize long term sales of the first game." I feel more people who played the newer versions of Prince of Persia would buy the first version if they enjoyed the newer game.

 

[_Al]

Yeah, it's just a bad excuse. Embarrassing that they actually thought people would believe that was the reason. Sure, some people are thick as mince, but others can see bullshit for what it is.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Hopefully the team can move onto better projects.