Ubisoft's Prince of Persia and Splinter Cell Remakes Are Worrisome for One Reason

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Developing video games is a tricky business, and it can be full of pitfalls and problems that cause delays or even cancel titles before they can release. Even veteran development teams in established studios have issues, and this means fans can get more than a little anxious while they wait for games to launch. Ubisoft already has a crowded slate of releases, but in 2020 it announced that it is working on a remake of the 2003 action-adventure title Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. But this wasn't the only nostalgia hit Ubisoft was hoping for, as it revealed the following year that a Splinter Cell remake had also been greenlit.

Remaking decades-old games and bringing them into the modern market with all of its technological and graphical advancements can be an incredibly exciting endeavor for fans of the originals, and it can also help to bring them to new audiences as well. However, even with a solid basis of previous games in the series to use as a foundation, remakes can still face a rocky uphill path on the journey to release. Unfortunately, it seems like both the Prince of Persia and the Splinter Cell remakes might have a few reasons to make players concerned, based on the lack of any substantive news.

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Not every studio is the same, and not every game's development is the same. Some titles have regular updates throughout the majority of their development, but others have very infrequent and usually fairly vague insights into how they're shaping up. Up until recently, Bethesda was remaining remarkably secretive about its upcoming new IP Starfield even years after it was announced, but although the game has been delayed it appears to be coming along