Ubisoft's Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown Team Officially Disbanded

Bad sales are Ubisoft's own fault due to the way they price their games.

This sucks. Guess that means no more excellent 2D Rayman games, either. Mario + Rabbids guy is gone, too.

Really is just nothing left at Ubisoft for me.

Ubisoft continues to circle the drain but refuses to flush. Give it a few more months.

Origami is a great gaming outlet for french speakers, 100% recommended.

@Jeff_D this isn't Twitter.

Ubisoft is so full of themselves. I'm pretty sure nothing ever meets their sales expectations.

Toxic culture of everything needing to sell a million +

@Jeff_D oh please. The “anti-woke” boycotters are a noisy tiny minority of insecure people who amount to few sales no company in their right mind would even want.

@jesse_dylan It's Incredible how they are still falling into the trap of 'smaller, cheaper games are not worth making because the labour would be more efficiently applied to AAA projects' whilst also losing money hand over fist on underperforming AAA projects and development hell megaprojects.

I’m actually so disappointed. I was definitely expecting a sequel to this amazing game

@Lrapsody yes, you have everyone running in fear, for sure… 🙄

@Vordus it’s a real shame. I’m old enough to remember gaming before the focus was on 5+ year mega projects that need to sell two copies to every citizen to even turn a profit. I suppose every industry goes through this. Film certainly has, and continues to struggle with it.

To quote Bradley Ellis, “Sort it out, Ubisoft!”

Ubisoft just make the same games over and over boring bloated games or crap remakes only good games they have made since the 360 for me are the south park and the trials games

Can't understand why they haven't made a Tom Clancey title utilising the Mario +Rabbids engine.
Surely a money maker across all platforms.
Or perhaps team up with Xbox for Halo Tactics.

They do good games, they just keep overpricing themselves out of the market.
So much competition these days not just on price but time to play the big titles.

Hoping Might and Magic comes to Xbox.

@Ricky-Spanish Except this isn’t one of them? Enough with the tired rhetoric and please gamers, enough with “bloat”. This is your new favourite crutch to rag on anything you dislike, it’s ridiculous how many of you are using this now. Have more original thought, I beg you.

I suspect this game’s problem was the type of game it was and its price point. Also, expecting a metroidvania to do big numbers based on an old IP you think is still hot enough to warrant them, well, that’s just stupid. So a lot of the fault is on themselves for being so unrealistic. But I didn’t want to spend that much money on that style of game. When it was new anyway, I see it available for a much more reasonable price now of course.

Ubisoft are just really weird. This game was one of their best in a long time. They keep making ridiculous decisions. Give the gamers what they want… P.S we want Splinter cell.

Almost perfect game. Sad it didn't sell more.

My game of the year. It was only half the price of a AAA game and it was worth EVERY single penny.

As gamers, we only have ourselves to blame if Ubisoft sticks to the same tired old formula. When they do try something new and it turns out great, no one buys it!

The amount of people I have seen that didn't buy this because;
too expensive
its a 2d side scroller
its cartoony

I honestly don't understand gamers some time. They just don't recognise great games half the time.

I know I personally skipped it because I wanted more 3D Prince of Persia.

Like Ninja Gaiden, the OG's are fantastic. But the 3D generation of them was just damn fine that I don't really have any interest in any PoP games that aren't similar.

@Kloppo I want a new one. But with how bad they botched Conviction and Blacklist, I don't know I want another Splinter Cell unless the IP changes hands.

Last thing I want is for them to do to it what they did to Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon.

@InheritNegative I'm sorry I upset you but I don't need to be original for you my friend so don't beg your better than that it's my opinion and the opinion of a lot of people hence why it's said so much and probably why people don't want to play Ubisoft games I get this game isn't a bloated mess but most of there games are those are facts no need to be upset because I don't think like you about BLOATED Ubisoft games that are a mess or just bad or not needed like this game have a good day 🙏🙆

I was talking days ago here or on NL about how Ubisoft was diversifying with Rayman Legends and Immortals Fenyx Rising, two of the best games in recent years and then a new Prince of Persia entry. They needed to do so, because focusing almost exclusively on Assassin's Creed is insane in the long term. Why many gamers didn't care about these games is beyond me. Immortals Fenyx Rising is a must-play and Rayman Legends is one of the best platformers ever.

Characters looked annoying so I didn’t play this. I’m quite enjoying the downfall of Ubi, hopefully more of the big triple A devs will follow.

@Banjo- you’re correct. Immortals was the best game they put out in years.

I am heartbroken, POP: The Lost Crown was the best game of this year for me but unfortunately to Ubisoft it doesn't matter how much it sold because it would have never been enough for them

we haven't had a Prince of Persia game for over a decade and to have come back as a masterpiece of a Metroidvania was great, it's a shame i really would have to have seen what they would've done with a sequel

Maybe Ubisoft should think about cancelling their gaming service, how can you expect great sales when you offer all your game library at 20$/month. In one month you can easily beat 3 to 4 Games.

@Fenbops enjoying their downfall and actively wishing for it to happen to other companies is extraordinarily unpleasant. You'd see thousands of people out of a job just so you can enjoy watching a company fail? Says so much about you, it really does.

@Scrubchub at least I’m honest. Have a good day sir.

@somnambulance Where are you getting the claim that it was profitable? I was under the impression that it sold very poorly. The only data I'm aware of is Insider Gaming listing 300,000 players 2 weeks after launch. For a game on a subscription service, that seems very low.

As a company, Ubisoft is as bloated as their games usually are. It's going to be painful and ugly, but they are going to have to trim a lot of staff and refocus. The only question is whether they do that themselves or sell to a new owner who does it.

Similar to hi fi rush. This game has nearly universal praise from those who tried it but hardly anyone tried it. 2d metroidvania is a pretty niche category. Supposedly launched to 300k sales. Ouch. It's not very hard to see the reasoning here. I am more upset that no one played this game than I am about ubisoft shifting everyone to other projects and basically saying there will be no sequel.

https://www.dualshockers.com/prince-of-persia-the-lost-crown-sales-struggle-not-surprising/?origin=serp_auto

@Fenbops I didn't play that Prince of Persia either, it looked a bit like the new characters in Crash Bandicoot 4. I read somewhere about an article about The Rings of Power, that all this is getting ridiculous and, at the same time, shallow, skin-deep. The original article said that Tolkien was racist because elves were white, like wtf are you talking about. I don't know if you have watched the second season, but I was far more distracted by the shoehorned variety that by anything else. Also, doesn't the new Joanna Dark look like Terminator? A wider jaw, even. In the new version of Sonic Generations, Knuckles is not allowed to make a joke about the rounder, classic version of Sonic.

The few times Ubisoft makes a great new original title, it almost never seems to be deemed successful. If not for Nintendo backing Sparks of Hope, that likely would've not been produced. POP finally returns, and it's deemed a failure. No follow-up to Starlink, or Fenyx. No sequel to Rayman legends... All genuinely good, fairly recent Ubisoft games. Ugh... So sad... 😔

I think we tend to forget just how small of a minority we are, those of us who frequent gaming sites as one of the regulars noted on PushSquare, we aren't going to really move the money needle
Even behemoths like IGN aren't going to sway the casual market that much.
Near perfect or not, it was a niche productmuch like Hi-Fi Rush.
To top it off, we are absolutely bombarded with games, more choices than anyone can possibly get through

@Scrubchub Sorry to step in, but knowing him a little bit, I don't think that he really means it, just probably tired of everyone being politically correct and just a way of saying he disapproves what they've being doing lately, in a small community where he can speak his mind.