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[Rumour] Sony has canceled an unannounced sci-fi shooter at Final Strike Games. The game was in development for 3 years. [...]
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DeepEnigma
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They're a private company. Sony doesn't own them.Also why you shouldn’t buy developers that haven’t done anything.
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SmokedMeat
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Varteras
Gold Member
Ah, it was Firesprite that they bought. Damn names are so similar
Nah. You're thinking of Firewalk.
Oddvintagechap
Member
Sony didn’t even bother releasing a teaser.
saintjules
Member
Good
SlimeGooGoo
Party Gooper
Guess it was...
their final strike
their final strike
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Varteras
Gold Member
FalsettoVibe
Member
Also why you shouldn’t buy developers that haven’t done anything.
Give one example where this did not work in Sony's favor.
Calverz
Gold Member
Christ. Took you a while to come up with that one eh!
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Not really. Don't break your brain over it.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
https://www.polygon.com/22662845/sony-buys-firesprite-games-playstation-studios
They really did buy a Firesprite though
j0hnnix
Member
Easier to corral cattle into one location for slaughter.
Calverz
Gold Member
Losing your touch!
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Just lack of effort. I'll try and do better next time.
SuperSaiyanWithDreads
Banned
U mean XboxAnd apparently so does Microsoft at this rate
93xfan
Banned
Not quite, but almost. Halo MCC is stil l some of the best online MP around though and has a healthy population.
Mr.Phoenix
Member
Dont know why anyone would think that. It could simply just mean the game wasn't good enough or meeting expectations.
I feel for the dev, but I can't fault publishers for doing stuff like this and cutting their losses and then at the same time be asking publishers how they let something like Redfall happen.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Crayon
Member
Probably wanted to make sure they had something that was actually coming out before they mentioned it.
The Fuzz damn you!
Gold Member
Yeah: when the media’s attention is on the other guy.
With this and PixelOpus, it looks to me like Sony is taking advantage of current media focus to clean house (or at least do a little hedge-trimming) with minimal media scrutiny. I wonder if they have a list of projects and studios that they wait for an opportune moment to cancel, when there’s some other big story? Makes sense.
Varteras
Gold Member
Yeah, I know. But they actually made games before Sony bought them. Firewalk hasn't yet.
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Member
With the money MS's pumped into Xbox and the possibility they've got a dead $69 billion deal, Microsoft will make Xbox its bitch* and Xbox might as well be Microsoft.
*John Romero fans rise up!
Well the "opportune time" would be checking in on milestones and seeing if the teams have hit them or not, how far behind they are, where the state of the game is after a period of time, and what the team's track record looks like. Microsoft's problems with Xbox being what they are, is just an incidental benefit for Sony to skirt by with a small studio closure here or project cancellation there.
Plus even if Xbox were doing perfectly fine, yeah the media would focus a lot more on PixelOpus being closed or a game never revealed being cancelled, but people with a rational head could easily point out the reasons behind both and point to Sony delivering on games and gearing up for a big showcase anyway. Game cancellations in particular are a regular thing in the industry; I'm surprised sometimes with how many games actually end up cancelled.
If it was anything like Event Horizon (more so than Dead Space is), maybe it'd be a bit upsetting to see it cancelled but I could understand the decision.
Anything sci-fi outside of that scope and there's a chance it wasn't unique enough to stand out from the market or even Sony's own sci-fi shooter they acquired through Destiny by Bungie.
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BootsLoader
Banned
Well, they handled that manly in comparison with the latest shooter from Microsoft.
Vognerful
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TheThreadsThatBindUs
Member
TheThreadsThatBindUs
Member
When all your games are having development issues, you kinda don't have a choice....
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SSfox
Member
I liked the first Halo despite not being huge into fps, but outside i never cared about Bungie, as much as when they are with MS or with Sony.Damn man, you can't just diss Bungie's future prospects like that
They probably canceled it for a reason, i called out Redfall to be a mid game (tho it ended worse), and some called me a Xbox hater. Since we haven't seen anything about this game it's hard to be 100% affirmative of course, but i feel like this scifi shooter was likely just another generic stuff you see all the time on gamepass.
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