SCOOP: Perfect Dark was almost revived.
The game's developers were close to a deal with Take-Two to fund and publish the game following its cancellation by Xbox in July, sources say, but negotiations fell through, leading to layoffs at Crystal Dynamics last week. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier.bsky.social) 2 September 2025 at 18:39
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Take-Two was interested in funding and completing Perfect Dark, but the deal fell through at least in part because the companies were unable to come to terms over ownership of the franchise, sources tell Bloomberg News www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier.bsky.social) 2 September 2025 at 18:44
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Well, I think this certainly counters rumours that Perfect Dark was apparently in a complete mess and had almost no work done on it, if Take-Two were interested in funding the entire project and buying the IP straight off Microsoft under the same development team. Then that suggests to me that Take-Two saw something in it that Microsoft didn't and it wasn't in a complete disaster, sounds more like Microsoft greed strikes again.
Microsoft should have sold the IP to them, it's not like Microsoft will ever do anything useful with the IP anyway, it's going to remain dead, all Microsoft is doing is IP hoarding an IP they've destroyed and they could have prevented a studio from having to do mass layoffs and saved peoples jobs and they would have at least made some money back by selling the IP to Take-Two.
Lol. Microsoft Sucks.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 02 September 2025
