Ubisoft has shared that the development of Splinter Cell VR, Ghost Recon: Frontline and two other unannounced titles have been cancelled.
This was revealed during Ubisoft’s recent earnings call, where CFO Frederick Duguet revealed that Ubisoft would be undergoing “significant cost optimization” in the coming fiscal year. With this in mind, Ghost Recon: Frontline, Splinter Cell VR and the two unannounced games have been canceled so that Ubisoft can put more resources into the company’s “biggest development opportunities” (via PC Gamer).
Splinter Cell VR it was announced in late 2020 for release on Oculus devices. Little information was known about this title, except that it was developed by Red Storm in collaboration with several other Ubisoft subsidiaries. Very little information about the project was revealed after the game was announced, and the title has now been canceled.
Ghost Recon: Frontline was announced in October 2021 and was planned to be a free-to-play battle royale set in Tom Clancy’s Clancyverse. A beta test was scheduled shortly after the game was announced, but was canceled just before it began. The game’s Twitter account has been silent since the announcement of the beta’s cancellation.
After this news, Ubisoft’s release schedule looks less robust than before. Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope i skull and bones they are released in October and November respectively. A remake of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is in the works, but a few months ago the development was switched from Ubisoft Mumbai and Ubisoft Pune to Ubisoft Montreal, which probably delayed the release of the remake once again.
In other news, Ubisoft’s Avatar: Pandora’s Borders has been delayed While the game was originally planned to launch alongside James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water in December, this will no longer be the case.