facetheslayer92
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Don't be so sure.
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Scalebound cancelled [Platinum Games and Kamiya have commented]
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Don't be so sure.
wild wild rice
Member
If its a troubled game why bother? Best for a clean break and move onto something new.
Maybe ideas and elemts can be recycled in a future game but as a total project I'd say RIP.
GhostTrick
Banned
Lol, you know, it's up to Sony to contract PG to make games. This game never prevented that from happening. And it being cancelled wont make it happen.
ecosse_011172
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Enter the Dragon Punch
Banned
are you twelve years old? please go to another site and spread your bullshit there
like a hundred people are out of work and it took a toll on kamiya's mental health and the only thing you can think of is console war bullshit. i have no possible reason to believe you are an adult
Baron von Loathsome
Member
Good, just what we needed, more exclusives.
You know, this is two Kamiya games now that have ended up cancelled (albiet B2 was revived). Can't imagine how frustrated he must feel, but if PG has indeed been missing milestones they must've seen this coming. Maybe it was too much of a project for them, or UE4 wasn't cutting it for an open world title on the Xbone.
Geno Breaker
Banned
Delete this.
WWWOOOOOWWWWW
due to the way I have no room for a PC(just sold mine, the desk and everything with it), the Scorpio was actually a console I wanted because it would have a baller ass JRPG and the best looking 3rd party games. Unreal......this changes the outlook so damn much on buying the Scorpio.
due to the way I have no room for a PC(just sold mine, the desk and everything with it), the Scorpio was actually a console I wanted because it would have a baller ass JRPG and the best looking 3rd party games. Unreal......this changes the outlook so damn much on buying the Scorpio.
KratosEnergyDrink
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You will get very angry if the game get an exclusive release on Switch, will you?
Goose_Se7en
Banned
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
saved as copypasta
This is the new "I'm an expert" meme isnt it? Lmao.
MS ownes it.
IDontBeatGames
Member
I mean, I would like the game to live on as much as anyone else in terms of it still coming out, but I think you're missing the point here.
Sure, the game being re-done for PS4 would be cool for everyone who has a PS4 and for gaming in general, however you're still kind of ignoring the fact that Xbox One gamers lose another game and this game alone was taking a toll on multiple people mentally. I mean, to the point where they even were forced to take a month off from the game and delayed the development even more.
On top of that, this leaves Platinum hoping that NieR at least makes a good profit to keep them afloat, I was looking forward to this game as much as anyone else whether I thought it looked bad or not, I was still gonna get it. It sucks that it got to people to the point that payments stopped, milestones were missed, time was taken from development and now the gaming community loses another game. It's not about whether Sony or Microsoft has more exclusives in this discussion really, it's the fact that we as a whole, just lot another game that could of potentially received love from gamers.
Duxxy3
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Would PS4 owners even want it?
Because, speaking as a PS4 owner, I still think the game looks like shit.
After that demo which is basically Revengeance levels of fun, I don't have a choice.
StrongBlackVine
Banned
Why just so you can add them to a list? If they can't produce their own games successfully buying up other games that would be multi-platform otherwise is not cure. That really worked out well for Tomb Raider...
Yuck. If this isn't a troll post, then you need to open up your gaming horizons.
Ninja Scooter
Member
MS contracted Plat to make them game for them, so I imagine they not only own the IP, but any of the work done with their funding. I guess they could sell the IP and whatever the game is at the current state if another publisher wants to foot the bill (isn't that what happened with the original Psychonauts?), but that seems messy. Big corporations seem content to just sit on IPs rather than sell them when their value is impossibly low.
BigEmil
Junior Member
Do you ever see much high budget experimental AAA brand new IP's from Nintendo as much as MS/Sony? No.
Very few and and nothing risky and playing it safe with doing it based on current characters etc and nowhere near as high budget
Diprosalic
Banned
It does own the IP, including the assets?
well, that kinda sucks
I was hoping we would see a FF13 versus to XV scenario.
Platinum are devs for hire, most of their work is not owned by them.
Publishers are willing to finance them, with MS jumping out it could mean that they are less likely to get funding from someone else for future projects. There's only a few publishers out there that are willing to fund a Platinum game and MS was one of them, now there's one less, i hope you still feel great about your huge win.
Obliterator
Member
Yeah this is really bad news for a studio like Platinum. It's entirely possible that 50% of their entire staff was on Scalebound and now are just sitting with a 100+ people without a project.
They need to land a major contract ASAP or I expect some substantial layoffs. The bad news for them is that a cancelation of a project of this scope that was this far along in development will be a huge black eye in landing major contract work
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
BOTW is the most comparably ambitious game that Nintendo has announced this gen compared to their other titles.
It never looked great to me, but I think all of us were hoping that the radio silence was them overhauling the game and polishing it up before they showed it again, hopefully at E3 this year. There was also some speculation that the added horsepower of Scorpio would really smooth over the rough parts like framerate.
Yeah, the showings for the game seemed like we were waiting for the big hook to be announced later and it just sort of... never materialized.
I don't think there's a Kamiya game I haven't enjoyed at least somewhat so it's a little disappointing to hear.
It's almost guaranteed that MS owns the IP, though I can imagine that it's possible that a Sleeping Dogs situation could happen and an interested party could get the code and pay Platinum to finish it off, minus anything that MS could have trademarked.
That being said, it's much too early to start talking options.
As I recall, they had pretty unreasonable demands on Phantom Dust as well which caused the Devs to get shuttered.
Definitely looking forward to any post-mortems in the future.
Frostinferno
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Dude was banned, no need to continue the dogpile.
Papacheeks
Banned
Why not? Phil is head of xbox, and has expierence in game development, he's in the similar position Yoshida was, and Yoshida got a lot of shit for games that got canned or delayed.
3rdamention
Member
I just wonder how much of a "game" even existed when they actually revealed Scalebound 3 years ago. I know it was a CG Trailer. I assume it was very early (and obviously revealed way too soon) if after 3 years of additional development it ends up getting cancelled (if this is true).
chill out with that garbage
Wanna discuss? Better rewatch that 2013 E3 Xbox conference and how MS straight up lied to everyone's face about how many billions they've spent on new games and how many new IP's will launch in one year. Xbox brand died in 2010 for me (360 owner) and this whole threat reminds me why I went back to Sony.
They spent dozens of millions on it, they hardly dodged anything.
There's nothing legal preventing me from doing so, but I shouldn't yet. Maybe a year from now
Also, before this gets blown out of proportion, it's extremely minor compared to the cancellation of a huge project.
Let's just hope for the best for Platinum, clearly not easy being an independent developer of large-scale games in Japan (or anywhere really).
Please don't tease if you can't talk about it. That's bad manners.
InquisitorAles
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What the fuck?
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