Following
rumours
of
a
remake,
Ubisoft
has
confirmed
that
a
new
Rayman
game
is
being
considered.
Over
the
weekend
news
broke
that
developers
at
Ubisoft
Montpellier,
the
team
which
developed
the
excellent
Prince
of
Persia:
The
Lost
Crown,
had
been
disbanded
and
that
a
sequel
had
been
turned
down.
This
report
was
largely
confirmed
by
Ubisoft
itself
which
stated
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.”
Advertisements
Tom
Hender
wrote
on
Insider
Gaming
that
Ubisoft’s
internal
expectations
for
Prince
of
Persia:
The
Lost
Crown
was
that
it
would
sell
millions,
equalling
the
biggest
metroidvanias
on
the
market.
Instead,
it
has
sold
around
a
million
copies.
Now,
a
new
report
from
Grant
Taylor-Hill
of
Insider
Gaming
is
suggesting
that
one
of
those
projects
is
a
Rayman
Remake.
According
to
“sources
close
to
the
situation”,
the
new
Rayman
game
is
going
by
the
codename
“Project
Steambot”
with
Ubisoft
Milan
being
the
primary
developers.
Based
on
what
he
has
been
told,
Grant
is
reporting
that
around
a
dozen
developers
from
the
disbanded
Prince
of
Persia
team
have
been
shifted
over
to
work
on
Rayman.
The
report
goes
on
to
to
say
that
Michel
Ancel,
the
creator
of
Rayman,
is
working
on
the
project
as
a
consultant.
This
has
apparently
caused
some
concern
among
the
team
as
Ancel
was
previously
caught
up
in
allegations
of
“toxic
leadership”
in
2020.
Eurogamer
contact
Ubisoft
for
more
information,
and
surprisingly
Ubisoft
confirmed
that
a
new
Rayman
game
is
in
fact
being
worked
on,
with
Michel
Ancel
returning
as
a
consultant.
The
statement
says
that
the
new
Rayman
phase
is
“still
in
its
early
stages”
so
we
likely
won’t
hear
anything
about
it
anytime
soon.
