Ubisoft has confirmed that its long-gestating remake of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has been cancelled.
The news came as part of a larger restructuring which will see Ubisoft breaking into five “creative houses” that will focus on different franchises and a “revised portfolio.” This includes the cancellation of six games, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time among them.
Ubisoft says the other games include four unannounced titles: three new IPs and a mobile title. It says these games were cancelled because they “do not meet the new enhanced quality as well as more selective portfolio prioritization criteria.”
The company says it’s also delayed seven other games, including an unannounced title initially planned for this fiscal year ending in March 2026. (It’s possible this is the all-but-confirmed Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag remake.) Ubisoft says these pushbacks have been made “in order to ensure enhanced quality benchmarks are fully met and maximize long-term
value creation.
A remake of the beloved 2003 action-adventure game of the same name, the project was originally revealed in 2020 to be in the works at Ubisoft Pune before development shifted to original The Sands of Time studio Ubisoft Montreal in 2022. However, the team restarted development from scratch the following year. While we hadn’t seen anything from the game since, Ubisoft said last year that it would come in early 2026. Now, we know that’s ultimately not happening.
The most recent Prince of Persia game was 2023’s acclaimed The Lost Crown, which also came to mobile last year. It remains to be seen what’s in store for the future of the series. As part of its overhauled “Creative House” structure, one of these new divisions will focus on “immersive fantasy worlds and narrative-driven titles” including the likes of Prince of Persia, Anno, Rayman and Beyond Good & Evil. However, Ubisoft said it will confirm at a later date which studios fall into each Creative House.
In terms of reimaginings of older games, Ubisoft still has a remake of the first Splinter Cell in the works at Ubisoft Toronto, as well as that rumoured Black Flag remake. (That’s assuming, of course, that neither of them were cancelled.)
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Update: 21/01/2026 at 11:54 a.m. ET — Added details about game delays.
