Backside line: Ubisoft has canceled improvement on Splinter Cell VR, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Frontline and two different unannounced video games. Primarily based on suggestions from avid gamers, it is unlikely that many tears can be shed over the lack of the Ghost Recon title.
A digital actuality recreation based mostly on Splinter Cell was introduced throughout a Fb Join occasion in September 2020. The sport was being led by Ubisoft’s Pink Storm Leisure studio and was set to be an Oculus VR unique.
Ghost Recon Frontline was introduced final October as a free-to-play massively multiplayer on-line battle royale shooter in the identical vein as Name of Responsibility: Warzone. Ubisoft supposed to launch the title on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence, PC and on Amazon Luna and Google Stadia streaming companies.
A trailer for the sport reportedly garnered a ton of dislikes however since Google began hiding public dislike counts shortly after its debut, we’ve no method of realizing what number of dislikes it has obtained so far. The feedback part remains to be energetic, nonetheless, and it would not take lengthy to gauge the room and notice that few had been really wanting ahead to this recreation.
Ubisoft Chief Monetary Officer Frederick Duguet introduced the cancellations through the firm’s latest earnings name with traders, including that they plan to stabilize headcounts by the top of fiscal 2023 to match ranges on the finish of fiscal 2022. Ubisoft may also focus much more on its greatest improvement alternatives, therefore the cancellations.
Ubisoft additionally mentioned Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora will now be launched in 2023-24, as will one other unannounced title. The brand new Avatar recreation was first introduced again in 2017 and was later scheduled for launch in 2022.
The subsequent recreation within the Murderer’s Creed franchise, in the meantime, can be revealed in September.