Ubisoft teases Rainbow Six for next-generation consoles, is the wait finally over?

By: Muhammad Qasim Hassan

  |   November 13th, 2012   |  

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It is no secret that the developers are already turning their attention to the next-generation consoles and making use of high-end technology.

While Nintendo is the only one among the Big 3 companies to have announced its next-generation console and is in fact all set to release it in a week’s time in North America, the game makers and analysts seem convinced that the end of the next year will see both Sony and Microsoft unleashing the successor of PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 respectively.

The latest display of faith in this prediction comes from publisher Ubisoft, which has shown a great deal of commitment to the current-generation consoles over the last 7-8 years.

Currently working on the latest title in its popular first-person shooter series Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6: Patriots, Ubisoft’s development team at its Montreal studio in collaboration with Ubisoft Toronto and Ubisoft Red Storm appears to have been given the goal of developing the game for the next-generation consoles.

While the company has not forward to explicitly state whether the next Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six game is being developed for the highly-anticipated next-generation consoles, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot hinted during an interview with Polygon that “There’s a good chance it can be.”

Even though this alone is not enough to get the readers excited as it does not really prove anything, a look at the restructuring taking place at Ubisoft Montreal will definitely lead to a series of very optimistic expectations.

David Sears, who was originally named as the creative director of the upcoming Rainbow Six game, was removed from the Rainbow 6: Patriots development team.

Sears was not the only member of the team to go. The game’s narrative director Richard Rouse, lead designer Philippe therein and Brent George, the animation director, all found themselves relieved from their development duties for the project.

Since then, the company has confirmed that Sears’ role has been taken by creative director Jean-Sebastien Decant.

Making such significant changes in the development team strongly indicates that the company is doing something different from what it has been doing in the past.

The demand for a high-end console has gotten stronger by both the gamers and industry analysts, with the latter feeling that the failure to respond to these cries will take its toll on the over-all health of the industry.

Both Sony and Microsoft seem focused on keeping the appeal of their current-generation consoles alive in the market, but while these tactics were proving to be effective a year or two ago, consumers seem to have reached a point where they just cannot seem to derive any more excitement or satisfaction from the available technology.

The developers are not too happy to work with a technology that is nearly a decade old.

All this adds to the strong possibility of Ubisoft getting a reliable idea of what Sony and Microsoft plans on doing during 2013 and therefore has already added PlayStation 4 and Xbox 720 to its target platforms.

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