Six months after rebooting Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake, Ubisoft says it is coming alongside properly: ‘The mission has handed an vital inner milestone’

Is the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake a brand new Cranium and Bones? I am beginning to assume it may be. After a number of delays, a whole reboot, and a warning to followers to not anticipate to listen to extra in regards to the recreation in 2023, Ubisoft has dropped a quick message reassuring everybody that it is coming alongside properly, and we’ll be listening to extra about it at some undefined level sooner or later.

Look, I get it, making video games is not simple—if it was, I might be doing it. Besides, the Sands of Time remake appears to be a surprisingly powerful battle for Ubisoft. A deliberate launch in early 2021 bought bumped, after which bumped once more, after which just about fell off the radar fully till a speculative 2023 launch got here after which went. 

Amidst all that, work was moved to a totally totally different studio, after which the entire thing was scrapped and began over. It has been fairly a journey, and at this level no person is aware of when the remake may see the sunshine of day.

In an replace posted to mark the twentieth anniversary of the unique Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Ubisoft contradicted its earlier warning about radio silence in 2023 to say that issues are coming alongside properly.

“As you realize, the passionate crew at UbisoftMTL is reimagining this legendary story, and we’re glad to announce as we speak that the mission has handed an vital inner milestone and growth is progressing,” it tweeted. “We look ahead to sharing extra sooner or later!”

It is not a lot to go on, however the “it is nonetheless taking place” message does have a well-recognized ring: Ubisoft has beforehand mentioned, greater than as soon as, that it is “joyful” with the progress builders have made on Cranium and Bones, a high-seas piracy recreation that it additionally hasn’t been capable of get out the door regardless of years of effort and the truth that the sport’s foundations had been already in place—Cranium and Bones is a derivative of Murderer’s Creed: Black Flag.

I do not imply that to come back off in any method as gleeful, however it is a actual situation for Ubisoft. It has been greater than a yr since we final heard something in regards to the Splinter Cell remake that was introduced in 2021, and Past Good and Evil 2 has been trapped within the vortex of growth hell for thus lengthy we really made a information to the variety of instances Ubisoft has promised that it is nonetheless in growth. (For the document, that will be 29 instances as of January 2023.)

A part of me is glad that Ubisoft is not simply letting these items go—they’re nice video games, and so they deserve one other shot on the limelight, correctly gussied up for contemporary machines. But when it is actually this tough to make it occur, I can not cease pondering that perhaps it ought to pull the plug and transfer on: Provide you with some new, recent concepts, and put these sources to work making them occur, with out all the bags of the previous, or no matter it’s that is holding these initiatives again.

That is a dialog for later, although. For now, the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake remains to be taking place, and sometime, we would really get to play it. However most likely not anytime quickly.