Remember the sequel to Beyond Good & Evil that even had a trailer posted on the Internet? Well, in an interview with IndustryGamers, North American president of Ubisoft Laurent Detoc said that it's possible it may never be released. After being asked about the risks of a new IP, citing the cast of Assassins Creed, he answered
Yes, that worked out, but it doesn't work out every time, and sometimes you come back to an IP that didn't work because you still think it could have – like Beyond Good and Evil, which was leaked, so now people know we're working on a new one. Whether or not it comes out remains to be seen anyway, but we didn't want to abandon that IP because it has a cache and authenticity about it. There's something very pure about that game and it's too bad that we were not able to build it as an IP at the time.
