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shikamaru317 said:

SjOne said:
This rumor is bunk. Microsoft owns the copyright

Plus Nintendo has nothing to gain by resurrecting this dead game when they could have Platinum make a new game like Astral Chain that doesn’t have any of the preestablished baggage

From what I'm reading, MS owns the copyright but let the trademark slip by failing to submit an intent of use report before the deadline. So Nintendo could use the Scalebound name since it is no longer trademarked, but the game would need to be restarted from scratch with fairly significant changes to the characters and story in order to avoid any legal issues.

They'd get brownie points with some people simply for reviving a game that "evil" Microsoft cancelled. Could also convince some Xbox fans who were excited for Scalebound to buy a Switch.

That is if Nintendo (or, while unlikely, Platinum Games) didn't secretly buy the IP from Microsoft. Might also have been a price for Microsoft to pay for the collaboration of the 2 companies, and since they weren't using it anyway...