As I said in the other thread - SONY already has Hideo Kojima and Death Stranding on their hands. They cant havd 2 potential long development cycle games

They just finally finished The Last Guardian as well.

Let's assume that Microsoft is willing to sell the IP for a reasonable price, and that Platinum (particularly Hideki Kamiya, who's had to take time off for mental health issues) still has any desire to go back to this, both of which are very big "ifs."

I'm still going to say no, largely going off my own suspicions as to how good this game is/could be. I suspect that Scalebound was having consistent trouble meeting deadlines because Platinum was either genuinely struggling to make the game play in a manner that was fun, or struggling to make the game work altogether (even the most recent 2016 trailer looks...very unfinished). Neither of those is a good spot for Sony to be in.

Then you have to start making connections with Platinum, who, from all reports, seem to be nowhere close to finishing the game, and given the need for several employees to take time off due to the stress of the job, are probably not in the best of states currently. Once Platinum is finally reorganized, you need to keep relations positive (something Microsoft apparently had trouble with) and hope that the studio can stay on track for a game like this. Those are by no means easy tasks, and either of those going wrong could significantly delay this game (again) or possibly derail it entirely. Neither of those are good for sales.

Alternatively, you could try to develop the rest of the game internally, or have another studio handle it, but the problem there is that you're starting from the ground up; with none of the work put in by Platinum so far. And at that point you're basically just telling another studio to finish some guy's idea for him, with no real sense of the direction he wanted it to go other than the bare essentials. That's a recipe for disaster.

In short, no. Games that spend a long time in development hell rarely turn out well. Sony would have to pay a ton of money up front for something with a minimal chance at success. Scalebound is far too risky for the reward it could potentially produce.

You seemed to have missed the rest of what I said. They kept missing their milestones within those 3 yearsHoperi

The deal was made in late 2013 so thats when development happened. Also we dont know its budget and with the scope of the game it's safe to say it probably had a beefy budget. 

And....why do you think games are delayed? Because they keep getting their milestones?

The game was already for over a year and the development obviously wasn't going well. Also based on the scale of the game i doubt they didn't give them enough money because Platinum are the ones that knew how much the budget was and they agreed to make the game so they must have believed that they had enough. If they couldn't make a game with the budget they agreed to then that's on them. 

Yup. Horizon and Nier being in same release time-line makes it worse, but even without those the game was still crap.
Honestly the only way I could see somebody liking Scalebound was in an ironic "it's so crap, it's so cheezy, it's good" way.
Or in some parochial consoles war perspective... Which leaves no reason for Sony to even look at the wreck.
If Sony wants to get into ironic so-cheezy-so-crappy-it's good, they can do better with an indy dev.

Jesus, you keep saying the same thing. And I still don't think you've even read the Kotaku article on Phantom Dust. They were given a small budget and they kept giving them more milestones without properly funding them. LMAO, they didn't even know they had to do a single player campaign until some guy at E3 said it would have a single player campaign. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3q85SF8sj0 

And this video proves just what I've been saying, Microsoft being Microsft. They've done the same thing with Scalebound as they did with Phantom Dust and I think even Fable Legends.

Don't knwo where you get 3 years from when nothing was even made when it was announced. It was a CGI trailer. Development had yet to begin. There was no development in 2013. There is no 3 years. There is  ONE YEAR.

Lol really!

Like what people said. Somehing went wrong in the production and I doubt anyone would pay $$$ to continue it.