Pokemon Gamefreak. Before that, they had Pulseman on Genesis.
I'm going to say Hellblade for Ninja Theory. They were going nowhere after DmC blew up in their face. They became an assist studio with Disney Infinity. They had to cancel one game as well in Razor. They were not in a good place.
Sonic-SEGA. SEGA has much much much better IPs before and post Sonic but Sonic still had that X factor to counter Mario in the 90s and be a great pack in game with a new Genesis. Altered Beast was not going to cut it. Nor was Alex Kidd.
Xenoblade-True Nintendo already bought them by this point. Thing is their previous games were sales disasters. They probably had one last shot at a new IP on a console.
Nier Automata-Platinum games. Scalebound about killed them. NA saved their bacon. Now they are working on Babylons Fall with Square. Just put out Astral Chain which sold 1 million copies. Working on Bayo 3. Scalebound nearly sunk them but NA sold 4 million copies.
Bite my shiny metal cockpit!
