Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake Collectible Dagger Looks to Have Popped Up in an Unboxing Video, Days After Game's Cancelation

An unboxing video that purportedly reveals a Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake collectible dagger has been shared online, with fans pointing to the footage arsenic further grounds that the task was nearing completion erstwhile precocious canceled by Ubisoft.

The two-minute video was primitively uploaded to YouTube past week, though remained unlisted and not widely-seen until it was aboriginal shared via societal media.

The video is labelled arsenic showing an unreleased "press kit" — a promotional point typically sent to media and influencers to make hype. Housed wrong a woody container with the game's logo, what appears to beryllium a replica of the infamous Dagger of Time comes encased successful foam and packaged with a show stand. (The dagger itself looks to beryllium made of resin, truthful won't beryllium cutting thing anytime soon.)

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While the point doesn't archer america overmuch much astir the crippled itself, different than however the Dagger of Time mightiness person looked, the item's quality present has prompted further questions from fans implicit however adjacent Ubisoft was to releasing the crippled astatine the constituent that it was canceled. IGN has contacted Ubisoft for comment, but did not person a response.

Last week, histrion Eman Ayaz — who is widely-believed to person been playing the large relation of Farah — said she had "filmed marketing" for the task arsenic precocious arsenic November past year, and had present mislaid 3 years' worthy of enactment owed to the crippled being scrapped. "Sadly the amusement manufacture isn't conscionable astir entertainment," Ayaz said, "it's astir guaranteeing a currency flow. And that means making decisions that dainty people's lives arsenic collateral damage, and creation arsenic disposable content... This task existed, adjacent if the satellite ne'er got to spot it.

Ubisoft confirmed it had canned the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake past period arsenic portion of a wider reorganization that featured layoffs astatine 3 improvement studios, the closure of 2 more, and the shutdown of 5 different crippled projects. A swathe of other, unnamed games were besides delayed — reportedly including Ubisoft's unconfirmed but widely-expected Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remake.

Last week, a collectible figurine believed to beryllium acceptable to motorboat alongside the Black Flag remake besides popped up online, arsenic idiosyncratic tried to merchantability the point via utilized covering app Vinted. Ubisoft, seemingly incapable to contradict the remake's beingness immoderate longer, past responded online with a GTA meme.

For its part, Ubisoft told Prince of Persia fans that contempt six years of work, its Sands of Time remake was inactive excessively acold distant from being acceptable to money immoderate further. "We weren't capable to scope the level of prime you deserve," the institution said successful a statement, "and continuing would person required much clip and concern than we could responsibly commit."

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