Earlier this week, Ubisoft announced that it had cancelled the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake, which was due to release later this year.
Ubisoft never shied away from its rocky development, as the backlash to the initial reveal led to a complete reboot of the game as the reins were handed to another studio entirely, but unfortunately, things didn't go much smoother at Ubisoft Montreal.
"It's very complicated," Insider Gaming editor-in-chief Tom Henderson said. "Even to the point where I have internal communication messages [and] QA reports saying that the game is fine, and then I also have QA people who tested the game saying that it's absolutely awful, so there's a lot of miscommunication and some really bad stuff going on with the game."
Henderson also alleges that developers working on the rumoured Black Flag remake were brought in to help, but that they were unable to get Sands of Time back on course. "From what I was told, they were kind of just stood there looking around because they [weren't] being taken seriously and it all just kind of fell apart," he explained.
While Ubisoft didn't divulge why it cancelled Sands of Time, it...
