Yeah true, I had both games but I feel Nintendo stepped away from military shooters, with perfect dark being more syfy shooter and goldeneye more military shooter if that makes any sense. From what I remember is Nintendo weren't too fond of the violence in goldeneye, at least from some of the articles I have read about the Rare/Nintendo days.

Microsoft is going to need the mother of all generations next gen if this is true. They would have wore out almost all of their good will and trust with many core gamers. Imagine what would happen if Platinum actually was making the game and it landed on the switch as a solid 9 game. Wow....XD

I see no purpose in this, all they have made under MS funding is probably lost, so they have to start from scratch. So unless they want to rub in MS face (doesn't seem likely since they are on amicable terms since crossplay on Minecraft and other ventures) there is no point in using the name, plus the concept is probably also owned by MS. So they have nothing but the name to use.

Kellems left in March 2017 a month after Scalebound was cancelled so that's almost 2 years ago, this guy wouldn't have even known about Astral Chains let alone any recent attempt to revive Scalebound which insiders say they began hearing about around June last year which is over a year after he left. As he said himself he hasn't talked to anyone at PG since he left so it's hardly anything against the rumour.

I don't want to be THAT guy, but I wouldn't want PG to be bought by Nintendo. Everyone should be able to keep enjoying their games. Babylon and Granblue are 2 games that PS4 is getting that the others aren't. However, PG has a great relationship with Nintendo. It seems like they want to work with Nintendo more than anyone else. Outside of Scalebound, anytime a PG game came out for another platform....there was a different publisher funding the game. Except for Nintendo of course. I wonder why that is.

Would make MS a lot of favors on their image to publish their exclusive on Switch while cancelling on their own platform.

TO cancel a game that ends up with a 9 while keeping some that got under 70 would be a bad blow.

Or maybe they figured no one would bother picking it up.  And what I have heard is that Platinum failed to deliver because MS put ridiculous demands on them for the game, including changing the original premise and focusing on multiplayer, while not giving them anymore funding to do so.  I also doubt MS will let someone else finish what they have with Scalebound.  If it didn't interest you before, then them continuing to go in the direction MS wanted it to go wouldn't please you.  It also wouldn't be called Scalebound, anymore if Nintendo or Platinum picked up the trademark.

So basically: 

Nintendo, just buy Platinum. 

I would be incredibly suprised if a major corporations like MS simply forgot to renew the naming rights. If anything they probably dont care for the name and didnt see it worth the investment in renewing it. Because money.

Also what you mentioned is nothing more than speculation. So is mine but im trying to be real here.

Strange that MS didnt put massive deadlines and forced online with Crackdown 3 and just about every other 1st party IP thats in the works. Thats why i dont believe those excuses. That just sounds like people who dont like MS so its always there fault.

Its more likely MS was paying Platinum Games alot of money and Platinum had nothing to show for it over the years its been in development, and what we saw, the game was a mess. That would piss off any major corporation. Platinum was rumoured to be working on multiple projects at the time which is possibly why they didn't meet the games dead lines.