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[Jawmuncher]

I think people are missing the point. Does it suck that Kamiyas game was cancelled? Yes. However his team was apparently missing all sorts of deadlines and with apparently tons of miscommunication it just wasn't something they'd be able to do. I think it's kinda similar to MGSV. There's a point where you have to step in and go "look we need something or we gotta cancel it"

MS has already been wasting tons of money. Remember they blew like 100 million on fable legends

 

[Yautja_Warrior]

E3, Phil Spencer walks on stage and shouts SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKERS and the Scalebound logo appears onscreen behind him, then the lights go out and a brand new trailer is shown and it looks awesome......... or they are just renewing it because they own the IP and they don't want anyone else using the name.

 

[Hektor]

the trademark renew was granted on May 3rd, this guy could have easily saw that and made up this info no?

Is that twitter user known in any way for leaks and later-to-be-confirmed-true rumors?

 

[nelsonroyale]

If this is true that is pretty surprising. And if Platinum are off, I think it is pretty bad faith of MS to hand it to another studio. I scepitical this is true though.

 

[adamsapple]

Is this 343's E3 surprise ?

 

[FelipeMGM]

Is that twitter user known in any way for leaks and later-to-be-confirmed-true rumors?

never heard of it until today tbh

 

[Bits N Pieces]

 

[Skux]

Time for a shitty B-Team imitation of what the game was supposed to be.

 

[Jawmuncher]

Time for a shitty B-Team imitation of what the game was supposed to be.

It's worth a shot. Recall the last time they showed gameplay everyone was pretty critical of it.

 

[Hektor]

I think people are missing the point. Does it suck that Kamiyas game was cancelled? Yes. However his team was apparently missing all sorts of deadlines and with apparently tons of miscommunication it just wasn't something they'd be able to do. I think it's kinda similar to MGSV. There's a point where you have to step in and go "look we need something or we gotta cancel it"

MS has already been wasting tons of money. Remember they blew like 100 million on fable legends

We had multiple devs in the past talking to kotaku and Co about how Microsoft is putting on intentionally unreachable deadlines if my memory doesn't lie to me.

 

[Jawbreaker]

It would be a weird thing to do if Kamiya isn't involved given that it's his "dream" game.

 

[Leona Lewis]

I think people are missing the point. Does it suck that Kamiyas game was cancelled? Yes. However his team was apparently missing all sorts of deadlines and with apparently tons of miscommunication it just wasn't something they'd be able to do. I think it's kinda similar to MGSV. There's a point where you have to step in and go "look we need something or we gotta cancel it"

MS has already been wasting tons of money. Remember they blew like 100 million on fable legends

I recommend everyone read this tragic saga.

Platinum made a game of the generation candidate with the peanuts that S-E gave it. I don't think they're incapable of shipping a game.

I'm sure it wasn't a faultless production, but I'd bet my left tit that Microsoft was the culprit here. They likely had some read on the market that Scalebound wasn't going to be a cash cow, and decided it best to cut their losses, even if it meant playing dirty.

 

[Zalman]

This is a nice way to piss off Kamiya and his fans even more.

 

[Blackleg-sanji1]

I assume Microsoft has the rights to all the assets and stuff right

 

[FelipeMGM]

I assume Microsoft has the rights to all the assets and stuff right

yep, most likely

 

[kromeo]

Time for a shitty B-Team imitation of what the game was supposed to be.

The game looked pretty awful for a long while under Platinum to be fair..

 

[AusRoachman]

Make a new panzer dragon style game. The original gameplay etc didn't look that exciting

 

[Moskalova]

Checking the blog of the guy gives me misterxmedia vibes... http://xrays-insider.blogspot.com.es/2017/04/in-depht-xbox-scorpio-la-console-sara.html

 

[Blackleg-sanji1]

yep, most likely

Man being a third party and developing for a publisher that has the rights to the ip must be so damn scary

 

[SmartWaffles]

Playground Games? They opened a new studio back in February to work on an open world game.

 

[Bits N Pieces]

Actually

Development is resumed, led by and entrusted to an important "close" MS team.

Playground Games's second team are making a new IP that will be open world.....

 

[Chris1]

We had multiple devs in the past talking to kotaku and Co about how Microsoft is putting on intentionally unreachable deadlines if my memory doesn't lie to me.

Kamiya came out and apologized for it's cancellation. You really think if it was all on Ms be would be so nice about it? Hell would be raised if Ms actually fucked him and his dream project over.

The game was supposed to come out early 2016 and looked like it was going to be delayed into 2018. That's a long ass delay for a game that had no hype

Time for a shitty B-Team imitation of what the game was supposed to be.

Well the "a team" wasn't exactly doing a good job. Not that I believe it's still in development under a new studio.

 

[brotkasten]

Time for a shitty B-Team imitation of what the game was supposed to be.

You're saying that as if Kamiya's version was universally praised and loved, which was not the case.

 

[Mr. Pointy]

Studio Gobo?
Arzest?

Spoiler

From Software?

 

[TheJollyCorner]

Time for a shitty B-Team imitation of what the game was supposed to be.

To be repurposed as a F2P MMO game. Coming Fall 2019. Scorpio!

 

[Blackleg-sanji1]

Kamiya came out and apologized for it's cancellation. You really think if it was all on Ms be would be so nice about it? Hell would be raised if Ms actually fucked him and his dream project over.

The game was supposed to come out late 2015 and looked like it was going to be delayed into 2018. That's a long ass delay for a game that had no hype


Well the "a team" wasn't exactly doing a good job. Not that I believe it's still in development under a new studio.

Crackdown still isn't out and we saw more of scalebound than we've seen of that game.
Ppl have revisionist history too even on this site it was the most hyped Xbox exclusive at least

 

[Wonko_C]

Will probably not resemble the original in any way, not even the character will look the same and will be replaced with generic white male protagonist.

 

[LAA]

Pretty scummy of MS to do really, definitely won't help their JP situation.
They'd have essentially got Platinum and Kamiya to put their creative energies into it, and then ditched them and got another studio to make it?

 

[kadotsu]

Squeezing external teams for asset creation and impossible deadlines and finishing in house is a great way to find future partners for development.

 

[The Flash]

Butwhytho.gif

 

[jroc74]

Alright now....

 

[Castef]

I recommend everyone read this tragic saga.

Platinum made a game of the generation candidate with the peanuts that S-E gave it. I don't think they're incapable of shipping a game.

I'm sure it wasn't a faultless production, but I'd bet my left tit that Microsoft was the culprit here. They likely had some read on the market that Scalebound wasn't going to be a cash cow, and decided it best to cut their losses, even if it meant playing dirty.

Mmmh... I think the game was simply behind schedule and, considering the cool feedback, has been scrapped. That's it.

 

[Leona Lewis]

The game was supposed to come out late 2015 and looked like it was going to be delayed into 2018. That's a long ass delay for a game that had no hype

It was originally leaked in 2014 by ntkrnl as Project Nagano, slated for Spring 2016 release. It was never scheduled for 2015.

And if this generation has shown us anything, it's that delays aren't necessarily a sign of troubled development.

 

[Chris1]

Crackdown still isn't out and we saw more of scalebound than we've seen of that game.

Crackdown also wasn't supposed to come out in 2015 originally

Edit wait I think Leona is right it was 2016 not 15 my bad. Crackdown wasn't a 2016 game either though

 

[DriftingSpirit]

Is this 343's E3 surprise ?

That is Halo Wars 2 DLC.

 

[Blackleg-sanji1]

Crackdown also wasn't supposed to come out in 2015 originally

Maybe I missed the 2015 release window than we didn't see the game until gamescom 2015

Edit:ah I knew it wasn't 2015

 

[Hektor]

Kamiya came out and apologized for it's cancellation. You really think if it was all on Ms be would be so nice about it? Hell would be raised if Ms actually fucked him and his dream project over.

The game was supposed to come out late 2015 and looked like it was going to be delayed into 2018. That's a long ass delay for a game that had no hype

He called them openly "shits" and "idiots" some time before the cancellation over behind the scenes stuff

 

[Reineldinho]

Better late than never.

We'll never know how good or bad Platinum's was, all we can do now is hope for the best with this new attempt (if eventually confirmed true)
If only we know if the 'close' studio is Western or Japanese

 

[texhnolyze]

Does Microsoft even have any decent RPG development team?

 

[Chris1]

He called them openly "shits" and "idiots" some time before the cancellation over behind the scenes stuff

Like 1.5 years before the cancellation.
And that was about showing off scalebound at E3. Kamiya didn't want to be a pr guy for ms or something. Nothing to do with the cancellation or any sort of delays.

 

[JaffeLion]

wat. really?

 

[Alexander DeLarge]

What happens to Scalebound's assets? I know it's unrealistic but I would like to see them used for Drakengard 4.

 

[Apathy]

Probably just normal renewing (look at rockstar and agent). But if they are going to restart it, it better be platinum or why even bother

 

[Blackleg-sanji1]

Does Microsoft even have any decent RPG development team?

I imagine this wouldn't be from any of their teams

 

[Acquiescence]

Based on the footage already shown, whichever team is taking over is bound to do a better job. The only way is up!

 

[Akainu]

Platinum made a game of the generation candidate with the peanuts that S-E gave it. I don't think they're incapable of shipping a game.

The best thing about Nier Automata isn't even the gameplay.

 

[Wonder Peter]

Meh, lost interest on it, i wanted a new Kamiya's game, this will probably result in a generic game, hope i'm wrong and i'll still keep an eye on it, but i don't any faith on this.

 

[TheLionsDen]

Even though I'd love to see the game come into fruition, it's be shitty of Microsoft and they get terrible pr if they send it to another team.

 

[texhnolyze]

I imagine this wouldn't be from any of their teams

Right, the tweet says 'close' to Microsoft. I wonder what it is.

 

[silva1991]

I'd be ok with a Scalebound announcement at E3...

I will laugh so hard if it was just a CG trailer. It will be the Versus 13 of MS.