It’s hard to believe that it’s been more than five years since Ubisoft announced the remake of its ill-fated and repeatedly delayed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.And now, we're one step closer to an exact release date - Ubisoft's latest financial report narrowed its release window to the "fourth quarter" of this fiscal year.
For players who have not followed the many twists and turns of the "Sands of Time" remake, the game was originally announced in September 2020 and was originally scheduled to be released in January 2021.However, the response to the announcement of the trailer was not satisfactory, causing Ubisoft to initiate the first of a series of subsequent delays.Three years later, the troubled project was transferred from Ubisoft's Pune and Mumbai studios to Ubisoft's Montreal studio, and development seems to have been completely restarted; last year, there were some positive developments, and we learned that the remake was "in advanced development stages" and is still clearly planned to be released in 2026.
That brings us to Ubisoft's latest (and briefly delayed) earnings report - which included several updates to the company's launch lineup.In addition to the upcoming "From the Ashes" DLC for "Avatar: Pandora's Frontier" (launched on December 19), the publisher also has four games scheduled to be released in the fourth quarter of the 2025-2026 fiscal year, namely "Rainbow Six: Mobile", "The Division: Dawn", an unnamed work (generally believed to be the long-rumored "Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag" remake), and "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" remake.
That said, five years after it was originally announced, The Sands of Time Remastered finally has the closest possible release window to an exact date.Barring further delays, it will launch between January 1 and March 31 next year.That's not too far off in time, but we haven't seen a single second of new footage since development moved to Ubisoft Montreal.Is Ubisoft keeping secrets for a big year-end announcement at December's TGA Game Awards? Time will tell, but hopefully this official announcement will be more exciting than last year's 30-second "candlelight clip."
In other Ubisoft news, CEO Yves Guillermo announced that the company will fully focus on its controversial generative AI technology, saying that its impact on the gaming industry will be comparable to the "revolution" from 2D to 3D.当然，育碧最近刚被曝出在《纪元117：罗马和平》中使用了AI生成的美术素材。The result was a mess: characters' facial features were misshapen or out of proportion, limbs were missing, and the set decorations were bizarre.In response, Ubisoft insisted that these art materials were only used as placeholders, and subsequently replaced the relevant content with corrected replacement materials.
