| G2ThaUNiT said: Yeah I may have misread exactly what was implied, but everything that has happened has taught us that nothing is set in stone. If Media Molecule was still 1 of the 2 studios under consideration, I wouldn't be breathing a sigh of relief. Especially when your co-founder left and the studio already had a round of layoffs last year. |
Not breathing a sigh of relief, but also not a reason to expect that it'll definitely happen.
| Qwark said: Also to add on top of that they only recently started to work on a new project, so that also doesn't really help their case. Usually it's more difficult to close a studio which has made quite a bit of progress on it's project vs one that isn't very far. |
Development doesn't always work that way.
If it's deemed too expensive to release/market a product, they might very well shelf a finished project and take the loss. The Last of Us Factions from ND was probably pretty far along, they spent multiple years on it.
It's also hard to say when Media Molecule started their current project. Usually development has a preproduction process with a small number of developers for several years, and then you move onto full production with the full team for 2-3 years.
Starting a project in preproduction is a very different status than starting a project in full production. The latter would be pretty good for Media Molecule.
