Ubisoft reveal throughout its Q1 2022 earnings name that it’s cancelling various titles within the pipeline, together with Splinter Cell VR.
The corporate says it’s stopped improvement on Splinter Cell VR, Ghost Recon Frontline, and two unannounced titles.
Ubisoft says the cancellations come as a cost-savings response to an “unsure financial surroundings.”
The corporate introduced again at Fb Join in late 2020 that each the Murderer’s Creed and Splinter Cell franchises have been getting Meta platform exclusives. The corporate was nonetheless hiring for its Splinter Cell VR workforce in January 2021, with a selected place suggesting the sport would even have a multiplayer mode.
Throughout the earnings name yesterday, the corporate mentioned it will “reveal the way forward for the Murderer’s Creed model in September.” Earlier leaks confirmed some progress on the Murderer’s Creed VR recreation nonetheless, which included footage of the sport’s beginning menu and a few written impressions of a stage, so it’s attainable the Murderer’s Creed VR recreation remains to be within the works.
As well, Ubisoft credit its current “barely higher than anticipated efficiency” this previous quarter principally to its Murderer’s Creed model and Rainbow Six Siege.
The Montreuil, France-based firm has been one of many earliest ‘AAA’ studios to delve into VR video games, with titles together with Eagle Flight (2016), Werewolves Inside (2016), Star Trek Bridge Crew (2017), Transference (2018), Area Junkies (2019), and AGOS – A Sport of Area (2020).
It’s clear nonetheless none of those titles turned the hits Ubisoft hoped for, so it seems the corporate is minimizing future danger by leaning on its most profitable model.