Sony Santa Monica’s Canceled New IP Was Sci-fi, Really Unique, Set to Be Unveiled at E3, Insider Says

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Nem on 26 February 2014

Well... it might have been canned cause it wasnt coming along at all. Its difficult to tell without seeing anything at all.

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DerNebel on 26 February 2014

Maybe it was cancelled because it was a Vita game and Sony doesn't want to waste any more development resources on western Vita titles.... well I'm just going to believe that, since in that case I wouldn't ever have played the game anyway... makes it easier :(

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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 26 February 2014

We don't need new ips anyway

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Geo on 26 February 2014

That sucks, good thing we still have Savage Starlight though right?

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Raven722 on 26 February 2014

bananaking21 said:
4 years in the making and it fucking gets cancelled? why?!

Benefit of the doubt. I hear it was Asmussen's project. They likely thought, "Hey this is the guy who directed God of War 3 and it was awesome. He's been with us for a long time. Let's give him some room". I'm guessing that since the game was in development for 4 years and not a damn thing was officially shown it was probably in bad shape. They likely ran out of patience with Asmussen's project. Having a ton of resources tied up in a project going nowhere, ultimately speaking, was not something they wanted when they could probably reallocate those resources to projects they felt had a better chance of being good and out on time. No game is cancelled after 4 years of development "just because". There is a damn good reason for it. If The Last Guardian can plug along for all this time without being axed then that should tell you something about the situation Asmussen's project was in.

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GameAnalyser on 26 February 2014

Disappointing actually...was looking forward to hearing updates on the studio's next release.

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nnodley on 26 February 2014

pezus said:

This makes me sad. Although, I was under the impression that Barlog's New IP was the sci-fi one?

I wonder what caused this, since they recently upgraded to a bigger office/building.

If I had to guess, it might have been too ambitious and required too many resources.

They just didn't need those people. They likely had a bunch of senior and lead spots already taken on the other team(s). So the vets didn't have a spot to go to. And they are still hiring according to their website so they will likely reach 240+ people again in a couple more years.