What happened to Prince? According to an insider, the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake was fully ready, but its release was postponed at the last minute

Yesterday, Ubisoft announced that development of the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake continues, and that all rumors about the project's closure are false.

Dataminer and insider Lance MacDonald confirms these words and supplements them with interesting information.

According to his information, the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake has not only been fully completed, but has also "gone gold," been certified by Sony and been uploaded to PlayStation servers. Moreover, some gamers supposedly could even get access to a fully working game, but its release was postponed indefinitely.

This was actually finished, went gold, went through Sony certification and was uploaded to the PlayStation network servers, where some people cleverly were able to preserve it and even decrypt it using their pre-order encryption keys. I wonder what the hell happened. https://t.co/SPFJAbyK0U

- Lance McDonald (@manfightdragon) November 9, 2022

For what reason this happened is a big question. What was wrong with the game is still a mystery. Maybe the developers decided at the last moment to improve the game, but it is unlikely that the real reasons will be known soon.