Don't worry, Rainbow Six: Patriots isn't dead. It's just sleeping. The anticipated first-person tactical shooter was missing from this year's E3, but Ubisoft has confirmed that the project will now launch on next-generation platforms, according to an IGN report.
Tony Key, Ubisoft's sales and marketing front man, told the site that "Rainbow 6 got caught in the transition of going to next-gen and essentially we're figuring out 'well, are we making the right game for the right hardware systems?' And you know, on Watch Dogs, the guys have been working on that game and it's always been a next-generation game in their minds and the way they were designing it. And at the end of the day when the specs showed up for next generation, they had guessed right. That's not always the case."
The exec explains that, while development of Patriots is ongoing, Ubisoft is wary of spreading itself too thin by investing in an excess amount of "blockbuster games."
"We don't really have anything else to announce or say about Rainbow 6, but we will say it's a really exciting project for us and we can't wait to say more," he concludes.
Rainbow Six: Patriots was originally unveiled in 2011 and, the last time we saw the game, dealt with the idea of homegrown terrorism. Unsurprisingly, no release date has been announced.
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