Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown shouldn’t be solely among the best video games of the yr so far, it’s additionally among the best Metroidvania video games you’ll ever play- however sadly, it seems prefer it’s not going to get a sequel, if a recent report claiming the identical is something to go by.
As per French journalist Gautoz (by way of ResetEra), Ubisoft has disbanded the sport’s improvement workforce at its Montpellier studio, with the sidescrolling Metroidvania action-adventure title having failed to satisfy Ubisoft’s expectations when it comes to gross sales. Although official figures for the video games haven’t been shared but by Ubisoft, stories shortly after its launc advised that inside its first couple of weeks, it had solely managed to draw about 300,000 gamers.
As per Gautoz, core members of The Misplaced Crown’s improvement workforce tried to get one other couple of expansions greenlit for the title, whereas a sequel was additionally pitched, although Ubisoft allegedly rejected each pitches. The choice was allegedly as a substitute made to disband the workforce and assign its members to different tasks at Ubisoft that have been deemed to have “higher gross sales potential”.
In the meantime, ridiculously sufficient, it’s claimed that another excuse given for rejecting the pitch for a sequel by Ubisoft larger ups was that it may potentialize cannibalize long-term gross sales for The Misplaced Crown itself.
In our overview of the sport, we awarded it a rating of 9/10, saying, “The Misplaced Crown is a improbable sport. Not solely does it seize the most important strengths of Prince of Persia’s earliest sidescrolling instalments, it additionally reinvigorates the collection in spectacular vogue with its Metroidvania design construction. From degree design to fight, from the platforming to its visible fashion, from the exploration to the soundtrack, Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown is a formidable accomplishment in additional methods than one, and one among Ubisoft’s greatest video games in years.” Learn the complete overview via right here.
Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown is accessible on PS5, Xbox Collection X/S, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Change, and PC.
