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 growth 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 atmosphere.”
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 particular place suggesting the sport would even have a multiplayer mode.
Throughout the earnings name yesterday, the corporate stated it could “reveal the way forward for the Murderer’s Creed model in September.” Earlier leaks confirmed some progress on the Murderer’s Creed VR sport nonetheless, which included footage of the sport’s beginning menu and a few written impressions of a stage, so it’s doable the Murderer’s Creed VR sport continues to be within the works.
Besides, Ubisoft credit its current “barely higher than anticipated efficiency” this previous quarter largely 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), House Junkies (2019), and AGOS – A Recreation of House (2020).
It’s clear nonetheless none of those titles grew to become the hits Ubisoft hoped for, so it seems the corporate is minimizing future threat by leaning on its most profitable model.