In Ubisoft’s latest earnings release, the corporate reveals that it expects the Prince of Persia remake to be one of many video games that can assist its backside line through the subsequent fiscal yr, FY2025-2026. Since Ubisoft’s FY2024-2025 ended on March thirty first, 2025, which means the brand new sport should go on sale earlier than March thirty first, 2026.
However that additionally means it might arrive any time now. We’re already two months into FY2025-2026. I’d be shocked if we didn’t get an announcement on the Summer season Sport Fest subsequent month.
Ubisoft means that its prime video games in FY2025-2026 will probably be Murderer’s Creed Shadows and Siege X, however names Prince of Persia as one of many video games that’ll contribute alongside Anno 117: Pax Romana, Rainbow Six Cell and The Division Resurgence.
I’m eagerly awaiting the prospect to strive it, as the unique is one in every of my prime 5 favourite video games of all time. I liked its storytelling, voice appearing, unbelievable music, and its then-groundbreaking capacity to rewind time. However I gained’t deny I’m a bit fearful.
Each Yuri Lowenthal — the Prince’s iconic English-language voice actor — and Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner have been hooked up to the remake when it was introduced in 2020. (Lowenthal as soon as prompt the remake was going to “hold all of Jordan Mechner’s good writing” and thanked Ubisoft for not choosing a “youthful, hotter actor” as an alternative of him.) However after growth moved to Ubisoft Montréal in 2022, it’s not clear whether or not both remains to be concerned. Right here’s hoping there was good motive to overtake the sport, not like that different time a sport firm changed Yuri Lowenthal’s face!
The remake is way from the most-delayed sport at Ubisoft, in fact: I imagine Past Good and Evil 2 at present holds the all-time report at over 15 years because it was first introduced. By the way, the primary BG&E sport shipped only a month after Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.