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[Dabanton]

Sony and Nintendo are not touching this with a barge pole.

PG games missing milestones is something no company who's actually footing the bill for work wants to see.

but damm 4 years wasted.

 

[paperspace]

#KamiyaBlocked

 

[TannerDemoz]

Queue incoming twitter gold from parody account CEO Kaz Hirai

 

[GrayFoxPL]

Square Enix should buy it and make it Drakengard 4.

 

[Lichter]

Look at your goddamn avatar. At this point you only get to be disappointed at Microsoft if you really want to be disappointed.

Well yeah that Young Conker thing is absolutely nothing compared to a cancellation of AAA A-RPG by f-ing Hideki Kamiya.

 

[Detective]

i'm not excited about Scalebound but this is terrible news, i think this might be the last Xbox console

what happened to Crackdown 3 ? also cancelled ??

OMG

You really need to apply for a job as an analyzer.

 

[Nictel]

Let's be honest to ourselves, the game looked like a mess for a while.

Now whether that's Platinum's fault or Microsoft's we'll probably never know.

Still I think a bad Scalebound would have been better than no Scalebound.

 

[The Albatross]

I thought every video of Scalebound looked very rough, but I'm not in the typical Platinum Games audience so I didn't think much of it.

Sad to hear that Kamiya (from peope's twitter posts) is in the midst of some mental health issues, hoping for a recovery.

 

[Dead]

Wow. Literally the only game I've hung onto my xbox one for...

 

[Meffer]

This truly sucks, hopefully Platinum can stay afloat.

Certainly will.

 

[SRTtoZ]

This thread is moving so fast lol, I'm still at page 12 and every time I go to a new page it gains 3 more pages.

 

[Eternia]

they invest billions into hardware and infrastructure, spend years building things like 360 backwards compatibility and invest millions in studios and games. what sort of question is that?

Nobody else has pockets deep enough to support this business. I want them to make as much cool shit as possible like everyone else but sometimes it doesn't work out.

And what about that investment they proclaimed at the start of the generation? They have almost nothing to show for it while they're busy closing multiple studios, letting another studio be independent and ending long working relationships with multiple partners.

When you change your mind as fast as Microsoft does, I don't know why anyone actually trusts them. Once things goes south, you can almost bet they're looking to get out as well.

 

[Kaswa101]

Damn so it's confirmed now.

 

[Arkanius]

Microsoft, that's the second hyped game that suffers your death blow.
What the fuck is wrong with your project management?

 

[Shaanyboi]

Well.... hopefully Kamiya and his team were paid and will bounce back with a vengeance.

 

[Spieler Eins]

you do realize that Activision killed off their licensed games division right?

And there I was going to say that I'd be unironically be prepping for Transformers 2. Everyone buy 10 copies of Nier.

 

[Ricerocket]

Man... Kamiya must be really taking this hard, from the interviews you really could tell it was his passion project, he said multiple times that he always wanted to make a game about a dragon fighting alongside his human buddy.

Fuck that's harsh.

I wish him a speedy recovery.

 

[Hektor]

MS is at fault partly because there have been proof that their structure and demands don't always work well with third party developers (Lost Odyssey, TFLO etc.).

+ Accesses Games (D4), Obisidan Entertainment

 

[danowat]

can't believe the amount of people revelling in this just to use it as a springboard to legitimise their hate for MS and Xbox.

 

[IncognitoPanda]

That's it. Xbox is dead to me. Phil is overrated. We had a good run. Wish the guys at xbox and platinum the best of luck.

 

[a Master Ninja]

Microsoft, make the rest of Platinum's Xbox 360 games backward compatible ASAP

 

[Sumio Mondo]

Oh yeah, D4, another mess from Microsoft. Think SWERY went through a similar breakdown after he couldn't finish that game. It's a real shame when devs put so much work into something they cannot finish like that.

Star Fox Zero's fundamental problems were all on the Nintendo side of things. Shikamaru Ninja did a breakdown when it came out and Platinum's responsibility was mainly the art and music. All the programming and game design was Nintendo.

Pretty sure the game was co-directed by the Bayonetta 2 director.

 

[FinaruDensetsu]

Everyone picking on that PR...

You guys ever consider that maybe MS is pissed at all the delays and the game not looking good? Everyone is just looking at it as if Platinum deserved all the respect and whatnot, but maybe in MS's perspective they aren't deserving of any?

 

[specdot]

So are those assets gone forever? The game looked rough, but the environments shown looked pretty decent for a proper JRPG.

 

[Deadbeat]

Reading this was an experience, but I don't know what this is parodying

So many copypastas, so little time

 

[What A Time To Be Alive]

I don't think it's fair to blame MS yet for this game being cancelled. We don't know what happened behind the scenes and it could have been a case of "This is game is never going to get finished". Keep in mind the game had already been delayed once and had been in development for a good chunk of time for the Xbox One specifically. It has also could have been a case of Microsoft demands or proper budgeting now being done. We really don't know yet.

 

[Jaguar Victory]

Fable Legends was fun tho.

Yeah, it really wasn't though. I was in the beta. Felt half assed and wasn't that fun.

 

[The Xtortionist]

Good tbh

It looked fuckin terrible

I still remember that Gamescom gameplay reveal thread

it was like a vacuum cleaner went to town on everyone's hype

 

[TheOfficeMut]

Microsoft, make the rest of Platinum's Xbox 360 games backward compatible ASAP

...or kiss your business goodbye?

 

[Ray Down]

I really think if NieR is good it'll surprise people. The first one has great word of mouth on its side and with Platinum at the helm I think it'll be a hard game to miss. I'm optimistic about it.

It's platinum so no it won't.

 

[Dierce]

Hopefully they have something surprising to reveal that will be coming out this year and stop making the mistaken of announcing titles years in advance.

 

[TangoAlphaLima]

Huh. It looked a little janky, but I'm legit surprised it's been canceled.

 

[fantomena]

Phil Spencer is really killing the system. There has been more cancellation and studio shutdown since he took over compared to when Mattrick was there. Maybe Mattrick wasn't the bad guy after all.

I feel when Mattrick was around the Xbox as a plattform had many more games to offer. Just my feelings, I don't trust my feelings so someone else has to get the facts.

 

[arts&crafts]

People show of their games too early. You need to pull a Nintendo or Bethesda where they announce a game and release it later that year.

 

[BRSxIgnition]

Square Enix should buy it and make it Drakengard 4.

This x100.

 

[Neff]

Terrible news. Sure it didn't look good but still. Wasn't this even bigger than W101? Sure W101 bombed but at least it made it to retail.

PG's largest team and biggest budget for a game yet, apparently. They outsource a lot too, so this will inevitably affect some smaller studios as well unfortunately.

 

[brawly]

That's one ruthless statement. "Scalebound is cancelled, but who cares, please divert your attention to whatever we have left".

lol

 

[facetheslayer92]

they cancelled the only interesting exclusive they had in 2017, well done Microsoft, just go ahead and announce that this is the last generation of Xbox

I mean the writing is on the wall, no?

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

...or kiss your business goodbye?

LOL nice!

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

RIP we hardly knew yee, focus test: the game

 

[Ladekabel]

On the bright side: One less game to buy from the Windows Store for me. Now the only thing left is Crackdown.

 

[AAMARMO]

Spoiler

Bring back J Allard.

 

[Neonep]

So Xbox is still pretty much shooter box right?

 

[Rush_Khan]

Ah that sucks. It was kind of sudden as well given the previous thread(s) on the rumour itself.

 

[whalleywhat]

I miss mattrick.

All due respect to Stunts, I don't.

 

[Mass_Pincup]

What the fuck is this nonsense? Yeah, it sucks Scalebound got cancelled but Xbox is in a much better place with Phil. BC and Scorpio are both huge. Hopefully some new IPs will be introduced this E3. I'm sure he's well aware of this issue.

Scorpio isn't out yet and BC is only there to hide their shortcomings as far as putting out games.

Spencer has been dreadful as of now, the XB1S is his only success since it seems to be selling well.

 

[UrbanRats]

I meant they didn't resume funding and several key people left the studio while the game became vaporware until PS4 hardware showed up and they realized the game could feasibly run and wouldn't be super expensive to finish. It's an extremely rare case, for an example of what typically happens to games that have been in development for a fuckton of time, see the development of Homefront The Revolution.

Hey if you use promises of future games to sell consoles, you should eat the cost and deliver.
If not you should take all the shit coming to you.

They were happy to show all these games prematurely so people would buy thier hw, but then went "sorry this just doesnt work for us anymore".
They can do it, but their credibility is in the toilet where it belongs.

 

[KefkaPalazzo]

that is? That's all they say about a game in dev for this long?!
15 words.

Amazing. My heart sinks even more for the dev team.

What were they supposed to say? Platinum fucked up? That not how this works.

 

[JayWood2010]

Well that sucks. Its one of those things where you have to meet deadlines, and show steady progress.

In the end i was looking forward to this game so it sucks. Wish Kamiya the best. I wasnt interested in Nier, but i may look into it just to help out Platinum as Im sure this hurts them.

 

[Skel1ingt0n]

Game looked awful every time they showed it.

That said, MS's exclusive lineup is now, somehow, even shittier.

MS basically has Forza, Gears, and Halo. That's it. They almost literally have nothing else (in the AA and AAA space).