I've always wondered, why the living hell does Ubisoft have sooooooooo many developers and studios?! I mean, as mentioned earlier today, if you combine XGS, Bethesda, and Activision Blizzard, that still isn't as many employees or studios as Ubisoft has.

It's not like Ubisoft makes as much money as these other companies to justify that many. Why have it setup like that?

That'd be cruel

Doubt it would go down well with Japan either, Scalebound was Kamiya's creation even if Xbox own the IP.

But as I already said, current Platinum doesn't give me hope that they'd successfully juggle it, they seem to be struggling to work on all those projects at once, Babylon's Fall looks awful, other titles were MIA for years, they've stretched themselves thin and unlike Obsidian, I don't think Platinum can handle it well, it's a consequence of having to constantly have another project lined up though to keep the studio alive.

We all know the issues with Scalebound, Kamiya has multiple times came out to defend Microsoft, it very much looked like a case of Platinum taking on something too large for their capabilities and I don't think removing the MP would even help much with that, unless they scale it down a bit or partner with another studio (or maybe don't work on 4-5 projects at once, Lol).

Why not start smaller, Kamiya and Mikami working on another project together? I feel like if Scalebound returns then Microsoft needs to sit down with Platinum and have a talk about their content pipeline so we don't have another case of them taking on too large of a project for their capabilities.

They don't outsource, Valhalla had over 5,000 developers and only 1 studio was not an Ubisoft studio and it was a widely used support studio so it couldn't have been much, I think this would actually be more expensive cause outsourcing tends to be cheaper to my knowledge but maybe it's easier to manage/control when everyone is under one roof.

They don't outsource, Valhalla had over 5,000 developers and only 1 studio was not an Ubisoft studio and it was a widely used support studio so it couldn't have been much, I think this would actually be more expensive cause outsourcing tends to be cheaper to my knowledge but maybe it's easier to manage/control when everyone is under one roof.

Not always, like both of the Star Fox games

I do agree that they have talent but Scalebound was far beyond anything that they've ever done before in terms of scope and the issue is they're spreading themselves too thin, they were struggling with Unreal Engine, the technical side of the game was reportedly a mess, Bayonetta 3 was completely MIA for years, Babylon's Fall looks awful and they're juggling a number more projects on-top of that.

Something will have to change for Scalebound to come back, either they'll have to dump a few projects, decrease the scope of the game (and I think even beyond dumping multiplayer) or expand a lot and/or bring on a co-development partner.

I have zero faith Platinum of today could bring back Scalebound without doing any of the above changes.

Should just sell to Nintendo since they work best with them.

That sounds like it has major potential, Witcher 3 director who left CD Projekt in May 2021 seemingly leading the new team doing a new RPG for Blizzard. Wonder if it's a singleplayer Warcraft RPG or a new IP? Either way, Xbox are truly going to be the kings of WRPG's going forward, they now own 5 WPRG developers (several of which have multiple teams). 

Still need Larian.