Ubisoft is not opposed to reviving Splinter Cell, Prince of Persia, and other dormant IP for a new generation.
That’s according to Ubisoft Montreal CEO Yannis Mallat, who spoke with IGN during E3 2017. When quizzed about the status of Splinter Cell and Prince of Persia in particular, Mallet touched base on the “creative collective” spread across Ubi’s wide network of studios, and why it’s always open to new ideas.
“I like to think of the studio as a huge…creative collective. So, if some of the creative comes to us and says ‘Hey, by the way, I have this crazy idea’ about a brand that we haven’t done anything with for many years, we will listen. There is a question of does it make sense, is there a market. But it’s open for the creatives to propose something.” Elsewhere, IGN also spoke with the publisher’s CEO Yves Guillemot and Xavier Poix, Managing Director of the company’s French studios, about Beyond Good & Evil 2 and its prolonged stint in development. Guillemot began by thrusting his support behind the vision of Michel Ancel, Creative Director on the long-gestating sequel.
?We are ecstatic about the possibility to really come with something totally different from what was done before. Michel is really creating a new engine for that game, and his ambition is just, you know, it?s just high. I would say very high. So we think we are going to be able to create something that will ...