Confirmed: Scalebound Cancelled

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bananaking21 said:

Trunkin said:

But at the same time their biggest franchises (excluding Forza) are on the decline, and they can't continue on with basically no first party. M$ is in a really tough spot right now. I still say they should keep tossing money at smaller titles like recore and Ori and hope some turn out great. An added benefit is that those smaller projects should be portable to Windows Phone soon enough, which would tie into their whole universal Windows thing quite well.

i agree. Halo, Forza and Gears wont be able to sustain them forever. of course they can always sign new deals with second party publishers to make new games. but if they do, they need to find the root of the problems they had that has made them have so many failures and very little successes. (outside of forza, gears and halo). 

That's the issue, this is already their second PR hell in 2 years with Tomb Raider (Lionhead was first party, right?). They already have a not so good position on the market, and are starting to get a bad reputation on their project and PR management.

Why would any non-first party developer want to make a deal with MS, without a huge amount of money? For a developer the PS4 is a pretty sure bet and the Switch can be an interesting one... The One is the "lots of risks, almost no reward" bet...