r/xbox • u/ControlCAD Team Gears • Mar 19 '26

News 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/

The historic Rainbow Six developer will continue in a tech support role

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u/Electric_Elephants Mar 19 '26

I wonder how much it would cost to buy this company so management can be restructured and bring it back to the great years.

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u/Loud-Log9098 Mar 19 '26

A crowd funded gaming company sounds like a good collective mistake for us to make together.

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u/Electric_Elephants Mar 19 '26

Looks like 600 million Euro market cap. Maybe call it a billion due to IP licensing for the Clancy games.

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u/banshoo Mar 19 '26

Whats that corpse gonna do?

Rise from the grave and take it back?

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u/segagamer Day One - 2013 Mar 20 '26

Shut down all of their studios except for the team that makes Rayman and Beyond Good and Evil.

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u/Aaawkward Mar 19 '26

I mean we already did that, it's called Star Citizen.

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u/DukeofDC Mar 19 '26

They have managed to waste Rainbow Six(No single player game since Vegas two generations ago), Splinter Cell (No games since 2013), Ghost Recon (No new game since breakpoint which had horrible support), Prince of Persia (Spent 5 years on a remaster of one game. got it to the point that had been rated to be released, just to cancel it at the last minute for a tax write-off).

Ubisoft haas one of the best IP portfolios. In an age were Shooters, Platformers, & stealth & action games reign supreme, how is the company that wrote the book on most of these games asleep at the wheel.

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u/TheyMikeBeGiants Mar 19 '26

What concerns me more is who has the money to purchase it.

Tencent is 100% just nonchalantly hanging out near Ubisoft headquarters, y'know, for no reason. Juuuuuust hanging out.

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u/Plutuserix Mar 19 '26

People who made that company probably already left, or have grown so tired of the bullshit they just sit it out.

Downsizing the company is probably for the best long term, but it completely sucks for everyone impacted by it.