The tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege is a huge success for Ubisoft. The game is so successful that the studio isn’t even thinking about a sequel – not even on PlayStation 5 and the next Xbox.
What does Ubisoft say about the game? Ubisoft is already thinking about Rainbow Six Siege on the next consoles from Sony, PlayStation 5, and Microsoft, whose new console is likely to be presented at E3 2019.
In an interview, the Rainbow Six Brand Director, Alexandre Remy, stated that Ubisoft has no plans for a sequel to the shooter, not even for the upcoming consoles – so no Rainbow Seven Siege or Rainbow Six Seven or anything like that.
Even though he couldn’t reveal any details about the next generation of consoles, Remy mentioned that the studio would love for players on all platforms to play together. Ubisoft is approaching the next generation of consoles with the same thought.
Community must stay together
Why no successor? The Brand Manager said in the interview that they do not want to split the Siege community between different platforms.
The strength of a multiplayer game is the size of its community, Alexandre Remy continued. So they want to try to allow players on all platforms to play together.
Ubisoft will make every effort to ensure that the next generation of consoles is treated like a high-end PC against another PC. Ubisoft is currently discussing this with Sony and Microsoft.
With this, Remy implies that players who have upgraded to the next generation and thus possess the more powerful hardware should not have an advantage over PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Siege with backward compatibility? It has already been confirmed, that PlayStation 5 will focus on backward compatibility and thus will be able to play PS4 games.
Microsoft is currently making many games backward compatible on Xbox One, including Xbox 360 games as well as games from the very first Xbox. Therefore, it is conceivable that the next console, which is reportedly being developed under the codename Scarlett, will bring this feature back.
