If you’ve finished collecting the Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown achievements and were hoping for more, we have some bad news: Ubisoft has disbanded the team behind Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. The Ubisoft Montpellier team has now been moved to other projects — perhaps including the delayed Assassin’s Creed Shadows.Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown developer disbanded by UbisoftPrince of Persia: The Lost Crown was a breath of fresh air when it launched earlier this year, offering fantastic Metroidvania and platforming mechanics over Ubisoft’s usual open-world, RPG, and shooter formulas. We loved it in our Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown review and we weren’t the only ones; the game currently has a 4.4/5 TrueAchievements community rating and a Metacritic score of 87. Unfortunately, it seems Ubisoft feels differently.In a statement sent to the BBC, a Ubisoft spokesperson has confirmed that there haven’t been any layoffs, but that “Most of the team members who worked on Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown have shifted to other projects that will benefit from their expertise.”A portion of the team appears to be staying on to make the game playable on other platforms — we’ve recently seen Ubisoft launching its games on Steam again. Senior producer Abdelhak Elguess is confident in Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown’s “long-term success” and confirmed there will be more “Prince of Persia experiences in the future.” We know Ubisoft is currently working on Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake, which we can look forward to playing in 2026.The news follows reports from French game journalist Gauthier Andres early this week, who said the team was told that work on Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown would end after several pieces of DLC and cosmetics. According to the report, the team tried to get a sequel and expansions greenlit but was turned down. Ubisoft reportedly said that The Lost Crown hadn’t met sales expectations, and the team would instead help on other projects with higher sales expectations. The report also suggests that Ubisoft felt that releasing a sequel would cannibalize Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown’s long-term sales. “I’ve heard and read ‘It was the best game production in my entire life’ three or four times in a single weekend while getting information on the game’s development,” Andres said on X. “One after the other I was told it was seen as a beacon of hope to create a safe space for people that were burnt out by Beyond Good & Evil 2. The team has been disbanded by Ubisoft.”Ubisoft has been in the headlines a lot recently, and not for the best reasons. Assassin’s Creed Shadows has been delayed, the company said Star Wars: Outlaws sales were “softer than expected,” with reports suggesting it sold around a million copies in its first month, and one investor has demanded a CEO change after Ubisoft’s share price tumbled.
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