Canceled XBox Exclusive “Scalebound” to be Revived on Nintendo Switch - Nintendo coming to help Platinum once again

[Someone in a Tree]

Now that I think about it, when MS bought Rare in 2002 I believe, Rare's existing games in development were either cancelled or reworked for the Xbox and Xbox 360 in lieu of Nintendo Gamecube. If this turns out to be true, Scalebound would be the reverse scenario. Nintendo took a then MS exclusive.

The year before the acquisition, Rare announced three GameCube games and four Game Boy Advanve games. The three GC games were Star Fox Adventure (a retooled version of Dinosaur Planet), Kameo (which would eventually launch of XBox 360), and Donkey Kong Racing (reworked as Sabreman Stampede before ultimately being cancelled). The GBA games were Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge, Sabreman, Diddy Kong Pilot (released as Banjo Pilot), and Donkey Kong Coconut Crackers (released as It's Mr. Pants). Grabbed by the Ghoulies, Perfect Dark Zero, and Viva Piñata were also in some state of development for the GameCube, too. I find it amazing that Rare announced seven games during a single E3 and now struggle to release one game every five years.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Afaik the reason you don't see a move like this often is Nintendo would have to basically buy out the cost of production to date, Microsoft or previous producers would still expect residuals, and Nintendo would still shoulder the cost of completing the game (which probably needs reworked to some extent). The may be negotiating but it's an expensive way to get a game made.

Microsoft let the IP/copyright/trademark whatever die out without renewing it. I don’t think Nintendo would have to pay them a thing. They could just be buying the name and concept and all and starting from somewhat-scratch.

 

[RJ MacReady]

Platinum announced their next game at Nintendo Direct last week so I would be completely unsurprised if this was true. Nintendo's clearly eager to beef up the Switch's AAA library and Scalebound would be a strong addition.

 

[DragoonSierra]

Nintendo took Microsoft's trash, more like. Anyways, the rumor I had personally heard was that Scalebound was cancelled because Platinum couldn't get it to run at a consistent framerate on the default version of the One and MS refused to let them make it a OneX exclusive. I don't care about graphics but it is a little sad knowing that whatever we get is going to be a major down-port.

That sounds like a real dumb reason for cancelling a game after sinking 3 years of money into it.

Not only that they announced it in 2014 and the X wasnt out then.

Microsoft let the IP/copyright/trademark whatever die out without renewing it. I don’t think Nintendo would have to pay them a thing. They could just be buying the name and concept and all and starting from somewhat-scratch.

Wikipedia says Kamiya was shopping the idea around in 2006. Platinum might own the IP

 

[ConcernedAnon]

Either way, this game sucks simply cause I had an old project named this
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so, if I ever return to that shit, I'll have to change the name, and I legit liked it.

Is that a XP using the ME skin? I'm surprised you can still get websites loading on it

 

[Ali della Fenice]

That's just my point. If the crap they actually release is that bad, just imagine how terrible the stuff they cancel is.

Having looked at crackdown, sea of thieves and state of decay, I would say that the major reasons this was canceled is because this was definitely way more expensive to produce than those. Also it is a japanese game and would have flopped horribly.
As much as it could be a meh game, with kamiya being the director, It sure would have some quality behind it, unlike the shit they actually released.

 

[Fuzhou]

From what I've heard from some of the small industry channels I know, Microsoft was tired of the team working on Scalebound taking on other games and releasing them in the meantime, Like Starfox, Korra, Transformers and TMNT while they wanted more progress on Scalebound.

Also, from what I've heard, it's budget was ballooned up pretty large.

 

[Billy_Sama]

With all this talk about a Xbox exclusive on the switch and chat about Rare, can I hope to have a Banjo Kazooie n64 collection/remaster on the Switch?

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

With all this talk about a Xbox exclusive on the switch and chat about Rare, can I hope to have a Banjo Kazooie n64 collection/remaster on the Switch?

It’d get us Banjo &Kazooie in Smash, so...

 

[DragoonSierra]

Having looked at crackdown, sea of thieves and state of decay, I would say that the major reasons this was canceled is because this was definitely way more expensive to produce than those. Also it is a japanese game and would have flopped horribly.
As much as it could be a meh game, with kamiya being the director, It sure would have some quality behind it, unlike the shit they actually released.

From what I've heard from some of the small industry channels I know, Microsoft was tired of the team working on Scalebound taking on other games and releasing them in the meantime, Like Starfox, Korra, Transformers and TMNT while they wanted more progress on Scalebound.

Also, from what I've heard, it's budget was ballooned up pretty large.

Nintendo wont tolerate delays or low quality. If it looks like there wasnt anything good they wouldnt have paid for it. They will also ride thier ass so that it releases in a good time frame.

 

[BeanBidan]

I wonder why they didn't bring this up during the Direct.

It's not bing bing wahoo enough for Manchildren.