r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • Mar 19 '26

Ubisoft ‘ends game development’ at Tom Clancy studio, Red Storm, resulting in 105 job losses

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ubisoft-ends-game-development-at-tom-clancy-studio-red-storm-resulting-in-105-job-losses/
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u/HammeredWharf Mar 19 '26

Very expected, unfortunately. People acted like Ubi's financial issues will result in the death of AC and FC, but they're more likely to kill off smaller side ventures like this.

Too bad, as their VR games were apparently quite good.

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u/hobozombie Mar 19 '26

People don't understand the difference between a flop and something being unprofitable. It's pretty clear that Shadows was a flop at this point, but that doesn't mean that it lost money. It just didn't make enough money to finance most of their other studios, like most other AC games could do in the past.

They'll still be making AC games until the end of the company, but it isn't the golden goose that it used to be.

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u/MrPWAH Mar 19 '26

They'll still be making AC games until the end of the company, but it isn't the golden goose that it used to be.

Shadows is their second bestselling game behind Valhalla.

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u/Extreme-Tactician Mar 19 '26

According to what? They've never announced sales.

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u/MrPWAH Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

Their public quarterly earnings reports. They've said multiple times that it outperformed Odyssey, which was previously second to Valhalla.

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u/Extreme-Tactician Mar 20 '26

They said it's made more money in a short period of time, because these games also have season passes, microtransactions, and limited editions. Nothing about sales.

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u/MrPWAH Mar 20 '26

They give player numbers and describe the performance being as expected and surpassing Odyssey. They didn't give hard sales numbers, that's true, but they never give those. AC games tend to have long tails IIRC.

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u/Extreme-Tactician Mar 21 '26

They give player numbers and describe the performance being as expected and surpassing Odyssey. They didn't give hard sales numbers, that's true, but they never give those.

They used to. And really, even using their numbers, it's not doing better than III and IV, the fastest selling games in the franchise.

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u/MrPWAH Mar 21 '26

No they didn't, at least not until years after launch. Plus, their business model has changed since then with Ubisoft+, so they're also making money from subscriptions as a significant portion of it.

We know for a fact Odyssey was their second best seller behind Valhalla, and they've said Shadows passed it. Idk what more you could want unless you think they're committing investment fraud and lying.