Such a shame. I always said it was one of the games that was tempting me to get an x1 before the announcement of it being on windows that is. But when that announcement came, I was even more excited.

But now it is RIP. I hope we find out what went wrong soon. But something of this scale was bound to go wrong

I'll be surprised if Shenmue 3 releases before 2019. That's got to be one of the dumbest E3 reveals I've seen. Right behind FfVII Remake, actually.

I'm pretty sure those bridges were burned. I dont think anyone would be willing to pay for the IP aswell, they would just change the name.

I mean dumb in the sense that they announced a game that may or may not have ever seen the light of day at all. They were getting people excited for something that, given the history of Kickstarter, no one should have been hyper about. As far as early announcements are concerned, it doesn't get any worse than that. 

But sure, it worked. The Kickstarter was a massive success. Though even their initially stated goal was misleading.

I see a lot of people saying Project Spark was canceled. That's not correct. Canceled means it never released. Project Spark released and was available at retail. They shut the online component off, but it still plays fine on console, just can't share games obviously. PC, idk, but it being PC I am sure there are workarounds people have found.

The only E3 2014 game we haven't got that bothered me was Fable, I thought it looked pretty decent. But there's a reason games get canceled. Scalebound looked terrible. People are saying a lot of bad things about how MS handled the game and handled PG, and who knows if its true or not, but the bottom line is the game PG was making and showed off to us looked like absolute garbage.

So...what's going to sell the Xbox One Slim and Scorpio? Cause Halo Wars 2, State of Decay 2, Cuphead, Sea of Thieves, and Crackdown 3 might be "The greatest Xbox line up ever"...but that's not saying much. And now hardcore gamers don't have a reason to purchase an Xbox for Scalebound, or to purchase it on the Microsoft App store on Windows 10. So what's the point? Lol none of Microshit's shitty exclusives are going to sell. If the Scorpio sells well, it's because of console enthusiasts who want a powerful console - or it's going to be because they surprise us with a Halo 3 remaster/Halo 6 beta.

On one hand it was crazy to get a game never expected and no leaks, on the other these long waits do leave games open to taking "forever" if at all to come out.  Personally I like E3 announcements to be games coming out in following 18 months, but I get the desire to make a splash before people are aware of a project.

Microsoft did a lot mistakes in this console generation... They wasted so many opportunities for the Xbox One...

and yet it still keeps selling at about the same clip as the PS4 in the United States.

Exactly.  The splash is made by games coming out of nowhere.  Now I have the long wait, and hopefully no cancellation, of Death Stranding.