Scalebound just won't go away, will it? The now-cancelled Xbox exclusive from PlatinumGames captured the imagination of the Xbox community when it was first revealed, and once again, its revival is being spoken about among Xbox journalists, insiders and fans.
Let's all take this particular rumour with a truckload of salt because as per usual, the info doesn't sound very concrete. Either way, XboxEra's Nick "Shpeshal Nick" Baker believes some sort of Scalebound revival is being discussed between Xbox and Platinum. We've timestamped that part of the discussion down below:
Anything Scalebound we don't wholly believe at this point given how long we've been hearing rumours, however, late last year Platinum themselves did express their desire to work on the IP again, so maybe, just maybe, the game could one day see the light of day on Xbox.
In somewhat-related news, the very same outlet has also recently claimed that a Gears of War collection is also in the works over at team Xbox.
Would you like this Xbox project to see a revival? Let us know in the comments below!
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I’m sure it’ll come out right around the time Silent Hills and Beyond Good & Evil 2 come out.
At this point. An actual Scalebound game would never live up to the expectations that would come after all these years. I think it would have been an interesting and fun game had it followed a typical announce and release cycle.
Frankly I don't believe this. But even if I did I wouldn't expect 'bad' Platinum would be making it i.e. the ones that made tosh like Babylon's fall, Legend of Korra & Star Fox Zero.
This rumor pops up every 2 months. It’s not happening.
This and Final Fantasy VII remake
I can't believe how people cannot move on from this stuff. If it happens they will announce it. If it doesn't it is status quo.
XB fans have plenty of diversity to look forward to this year. Age of Empires, Minecraft Legends, Starfield, Forza Motorsports, Ghostwire, Elder Scrolls Online expansion, Redfall, Forza Horizon 5 Expansion, Halo Infinite re-jigging and expansions, more Sea of Thieves content, continued Flight Simulator content, etc.
The only two thing MS needs to work on is, giving a clear picture on their game pipeline for games like Hellblade II, Everwild, Perfect Dark, Indiana Jones, Fable, Outer Worlds II, Avowed, State of Decay III, Contraband, etc. And then they also need a studio or two developing and delivering third person action-adventure games. I don't think they need as many as Sony has, but, this is one genre MS is really not present in and should be.
@xMightyMatt14x I tend to disagree about that. I think that the issues that led up to its cancellation would have an impact on expectation. The 'last' we saw it, it was an XB1 OG/S game and 'looked' OK as an 'early' generation game, but still looked 'rough' around the edges. Couple that with its cancellation, and I think most have 'low' expectations, let alone even 'expect' it to arrive at all...
Personally, I thought the concept to be very interesting. I wasn't very keen on the 'co-op' boss battle thing, but the open world Single Player concept of partnering with an AI dragon was a very interesting concept.
I do think that the increasing 'cost' and 'projected' sales didn't add up at the time. XB1 wasn't exactly flying off the shelf, so limited the max potential sales so it become 'economically' no sense to invest 'more' into it, need to sell a LOT more copies to get your investment back and a 'console' struggling to sell.
I do think that MS are in a much stronger position today and with Game Pass, could reach enough people, sell enough copies across PC/Xbox etc to take a chance on bringing Scalebound back from the dead. Time will tell but I won't be holding my breath. I'd like to see it come to fruition and release as I think it has a lot of potential if realised...
I guess I am in the extreme minority when it comes to hoping and wanting this game to actually come out.
Don't get me wrong its been what 8 years or so since this was announced there's no way the actual product could deliver on that (it looked like it was struggling in its first gameplay) but it would be cool to see it come back as a "remember those IPs and games that died during the xq1 era, we're bringing them back" sort of thing.
@NarutosBiggestFan I'm with you on this. I've always wanted to play this game.
I'm not a fan of platinum games. I'm hoping xbox puts its money into better projects/developers.
I wasn't on Xbox when this whole mess started but why are people so horny for this thing? The developers of the game haven't put out anything above mediocre and are going to be bankrupt if they don't get bought out most likely. They basically used MS money for other games is my understanding....why would you work with them again?
Hideki Kamiya begging for money to make Scalebound happen on the inside of a restroom stall doesn't count as a "rumor."
@SplooshDmg would be suuuper psyched about this though
@NeoRatt My personal take is rather see Xbox do something with Remedy or Avalanche for a 3rd person action adventure title. Maybe have 343 do something besides halo ?
Platinum makes nice shiney action titles and maybe they can revisit a Vanquish sequel and then discuss scalebound. Platinums history with new ip has not been great
Sounds like a mid tier Platinum experience waiting to happen.
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