- director Hideki Kamiya revealed to Gamespot:

- the game was shelved twice before it became what trailers and demos show today

- he says to Gamespot:

"If you look at the long span of it, the first idea [for Scalebound] was when we started the company and were thinking of ideas and games that we want to make," Kamiya said. "The idea popped up there, but then we made Bayonetta. Then after Bayonetta, we revived the idea and made a prototype but that prototype failed and the game got cancelled. It was put on a backburner for a variety of reasons and we moved on to The Wonderful 101. "

"When they first started, the idea was for a Wii game and we wanted to use a Wii remote to do the orders for the dinosaurs," Kamiya explained. "You were in control of the dinosaurs, you were ordering the dinosaurs around, and they'd do cool things. Then after we made Bayonetta, we started the prototype. The first thing that I made a change to was making it a dragon game.

"We changed the dinosaurs to dragons, but at that point the lead character was even weaker than [current protagonist] Drew is in the context of Scalebound," he continued. "She was actually a little girl who was with these dragons. As we were making this prototype, I realized that I didn’t want to just be watching the fight, I wanted to be more participatory in the fight. And I started talking with the staff about how maybe we should change this to be a swordsman or someone a little bit older. This was when the prototype got put on the backburner, so to speak, and the project was halted. Then we made The Wonderful 101."

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbox-one-exclusive-scalebound-was-shelved-twice-or/1100-6431046/

Helpless little girl being helped by big creatures? Does that concept seem interesting to you?

Disappointed it didn't get released for Wii?

My first thought:

Star Fox Adventures 2

Given what's said here, it probably would have transitioned to being a WiiU title, and maybe would have taken the place of TW101. It really sounds like Scalebound's concept changed a lot more under MS's direction - perhaps for the better, but we can only speculate. As I posted earlier, this concept sounds suspiciously like a Star Fox Adventures 2 pitch in a way.

PG's exclusives support of Nintendo systems has been really stellar. Because I personally like TW101, Bayo 2, and how Star Fox Zero is shaping up, I can't say I'm disappointed. If anything, I'd rather have more of the PG multiplats (MGR, Transformers) on WiiU than another exclusive tbh.

I think PG benefits from doing exclusives for each platform rather than just one. It allows them to take the very best other big publishers have to offer in terms of support and bring it to other titles.

The helpless little girl thing makes it sound a bit too much like the Last Guardian. I think this is probably the better idea.

Dinosaurs and lolis I would buy that.

Kali is disappoint

i like little girls.

i like dinosaurs.

Interesting concept, but hard to pull off. Kinda reminds me of Project Guard gameplay wise, which they confirmed to be developing not long ago, but I'm not excited about that either.

Good decision, this game looks really nice on Xbox One.