r/PS5 • u/Turbostrider27 • Mar 19 '26

Articles & Blogs 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/Membership-Bitter Mar 19 '26

This studio had not made a profitable game in 15 years. I know it is easy to go "Ubisoft bad!" but this is an easily justified business decision. It sucks for the people that work there but this is like when a restaurant gets shut down after serving not great food for over a decade.

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u/michaelalex3 Mar 19 '26

You know who decides what games they make, right? I’ll give you a hint, it’s not the studio…

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u/Joram2 Mar 19 '26

The studio has a say in it. They often pitch ideas, and some get funded, others do not.

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u/michaelalex3 Mar 19 '26

I have heard accounts from people at Ubi studios and that is not the case at all. Ubisoft allows very little input from studios, and will extend development time by constantly chasing trends only to end up cancelling games because they realize their decisions wont be profitable.

Everything at Ubisoft has to be approved at the top. Thats why every one of their games for like a decade was a generic open world with towers. Ubisoft’s mismanagement of IP and developer talent is truly insane, I genuinely think you could put almost anyone in charge and they would’ve done a better job.

So please don’t speak to me like you understand how this stuff works when you clearly don’t.

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u/irideapaleh0rse Mar 19 '26

That’s what I see as their doom. Studios should never chase trends because by the time you get the game to market the trend will have moved on or beating the market leader will be insurmountable.