Splinter Cell VR, as well as two other projects that had not yet been announced.
The decision to end development of the games was made as Ubisoft focuses on achieving "sizable cost optimization" in the fiscal year, chief financial officer Frederick Duguet said during today's financial call. As part of that process, Duguet said Ubisoft will put "even more focus on our biggest development opportunities, as evidenced by our decision to stop development of the Splinter Cell VR game, Ghost Recon Frontlines, and two other unannounced titles."
Ghost Recon Frontline was announced in October 2021 as a free-to-play battle royale, but the response to the game was profoundly negative—the announcement video has more than four times as many dislikes as likes on halted just one day before it was set to begin. The Frontline Twitter has been silent ever since.
Splinter Cell VR, on the other hand, may have simply been too niche: The August 2020 Steam hardware survey indicated that only 1.70% of Steam s own a VR headset of any sort, and two years later that number has only increased to original Splinter Cell was announced last year, and drew a much more positive response from fans.
Ubisoft hasn't made a formal announcement about the status of either game at this point, but I've reached out for more information on both cancellations, and will update if I receive a reply.
