Rainbow 6 Patriots was announced back in 2011, but Ubisoft has revealed not much about the game ever since. This is because the game’s development has been very shaky.
Apparently Rainbow 6 Patriots was being made, but wasn’t working out properly. Therefore, Ubisoft basically had to remake the game from the ground-up again, plus make it for next-gen hardware too.
Ubisoft North American president Laurent Detoc told IGN about the struggles of Rainbow 6 Patriots’ development.
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. 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. 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.
By the sounds of things, Rainbow 6 Patriots will be out on the PC, Xbox One and PS4 but it may not be out anytime soon…