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they released the star fox for the VB.



 

 

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Because they are profitable. You just don't hear about unprofitable projects.



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Because then it's a sunk cost. It's better to release it and get some revenue than to scrap it and bleed money until you're bankrupt.



but if they KNOW they have a horrible idea, why not just scrap it?


Because they put a lot of work in it nontheless so why not try to get at least a bit of development costs back.

This is of course different when you are a really famous developer who is known for high-quality games like Blizzard. They kill games that are crap.

How was the name of the Starcraft FPS again where they pulled the plug?

And a last thought I think there are quite a few crappy games that are scrapped but these are mostly killed before the public sees something about them. When they are in Alpha stage and can be shown it is normally to late.



Star Fox 2 wasn't canned because they thought it sucked. Nintendo simply didn't want to release a 3D game so close to the N64 launch.



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Many reasons, I bet some devs after making a terrible game sit thier laughing thier ass off at people who buy it.



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Project hammer got canned for that very reason. It happens alot, probably more than we know because we don't hear about the games that get scrapped.



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They don't do this because most of the cost is in development and not actually producing/packaging/shipping a game. If most of the cost is already incurred, they hope that they can just ship it and get some money back on it at least rather than just eating the whole cost. OTOH, for certain games (especially with an established series), this has to be weighed against damaging the brand name. I think that's why something like Starcraft: Ghost never saw the light of day.



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Desroko said:
Because then it's a sunk cost. It's better to release it and get some revenue than to scrap it and bleed money until you're bankrupt.

This is the reason. By the time a developer realizes a game is just going to suck it is too late. The decision becomes how much would it cost to finish versus how much we can make. Essentially the games are shipped hoping to recoup the cost of making and shipping the game itself.



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games get canned all the time, many bad games come out because they want to make some money. For companies like nintendo and blizzard their reputation of putting out good games is very important and they will scrap games if they are bad. If you're EA, then you'll probably release it anyway.



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