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Greeting Sony fans. I have a question for you all. 

I'm writing an article about Microsoft and was looking at the number of big games they've canceled (Scalebound, Fable, Phantom Dust). It seems peculiar to me. I know Nintendo has never canceled so many big games that they revealed. I was wondering if Sony has ever done something similar. My guess is no but I wanted to ask the experts.  Thank you all!!



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Every company cancels a shit ton of games probably, it's just that most of them don't even get known by the public. So yes,, it's happened. But in terms of revealed games, that's a harder question, I can't think of it myself, but maybe somebody else can.



8 days. That was a big announcement that showed off the PS3's power. Didn't they pull they plug on one of the Getaway games?



https://www.gamefaqs.com/company/10631-scea?platform=0&year=-1&region=0&devpub=0
https://www.gamefaqs.com/company/43976-sony-online-entertainment?platform=0&year=-1&region=0&devpub=0
https://www.gamefaqs.com/company/13123-scee?platform=0&year=-1&region=0&devpub=0

https://www.gamefaqs.com/company/44-microsoft-game-studios?platform=0&year=-1&region=0&devpub=0

https://www.gamefaqs.com/company/1143-nintendo?platform=0&year=-1&region=0&devpub=0



Nintendo cancels lots of games in the background before they get announced.



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Not really, not anywhere as ofter at least. Sony actually does want to keep their fans happy.



I don't know whether or not they have, but sometimes they really should know when to cancel certain projects. I mean is it really worth having something like Last Guardian in development for like a decade? Seems like a gross waste of resources to me.



Conina said:
https://www.gamefaqs.com/company/10631-scea?platform=0&year=-1®ion=0&devpub=0
https://www.gamefaqs.com/company/43976-sony-online-entertainment?platform=0&year=-1®ion=0&devpub=0
https://www.gamefaqs.com/company/13123-scee?platform=0&year=-1®ion=0&devpub=0

https://www.gamefaqs.com/company/44-microsoft-game-studios?platform=0&year=-1®ion=0&devpub=0

https://www.gamefaqs.com/company/1143-nintendo?platform=0&year=-1®ion=0&devpub=0

Wow nice post. It even lists games that did release but released in other territories were canceled.

Turns out everyone cancels a lot of games. Who knew. 



SWORDF1SH said:
8 days. That was a big announcement that showed off the PS3's power. Didn't they pull they plug on one of the Getaway games?

It's been so long, but I remember thinking 8 Days looked promising.



- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."

naw you get games like The Last Guardian which take forever to come out and many people believe it will never happen. But I cannot recall any games Sony showed as a marquee title(like at E3 or other major trade shows) that just got canned.



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