Ubisoft has broken its radio silence regarding the long awaited Rainbow 6: Patriots, IGN reports. Ubisoft’s North American president Laurent Detoc explained why the game suddenly disappeared, and why the switch to next generation has done it a world of good.

“We had a core team. They had a good vision. They got started, and then the game wasn’t working. So they had to start again,” Detoc explained. “There’s an editorial group in Ubisoft, a big group, very influential. If the game is not good enough, they say it’s not good enough. Most of the time, the team will say, ‘yeah, I know.’ But sometimes they want to continue in a direction where you say, ‘no, it’s not going to work.’”

“Rainbow had to be remade,” he continued. “Now they’re going to have the benefit of the new consoles, if and when it comes out. It’s one of those examples where you try, it doesn’t work, you try again. If it doesn’t work, we’re not going to bring it to you.”

His wording is interesting: ‘if and when it does come out.’ Is the title’s status still up in the air?

Jade Raymond, the CEO of Ubisoft Toronto has told VG247 today that they have completed development on their respective portion of  Rainbow 6 Patriots.

Previously in 2012 it was said that Ubisoft Montreal continued to work on the single-player portion of the game, while Ubisoft Toronto was handling the Multiplayer Missions. The team has around 200 people working on the title. Originally Rainbow 6 Patriots was supposed to come out on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. However, it’s looking like that the game will now come out on next-gen consoles instead.

Jade Raymond’s development team is also working on Splinter Cell: Blacklist and on the next Assassin’s Creed title along with two IPs of its own after the release of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Fag.

Is Rainbow 6 Patriots coming to Xbox 720 and PlayStation 4 later this year as a Launch title? Stay tuned for more news regarding this matter on GamingBolt.

Source – VG247