Platinum says it wants to talk to Xbox about Scalebound: ‘Phil, let’s do it!’

Thread: Platinum says it wants to talk to Xbox about Scalebound: ‘Phil, let’s do it!’
PlatinumGames has expressed interest in revisiting its cancelled Xbox exclusive Scalebound one day, and opening discussions with Microsoft's gaming CEO Phil Spencer.

The action RPG was originally planned as an Xbox exclusive in 2017, but the game was eventually cancelled.

Speaking in a new interview with IGN Japan (translated by VGC), Platinum's president Atsushi Inaba and vice president Hideki Kamiya were asked if they'd like to revisit the game, and for the first time expressed an interest in opening conversations with Microsoft.

"Kamiya has always wanted to do Scalebound. So we'd like to have a proper discussion with Microsoft," Inaba said.

Kamiya, who was the director of Scalebound, added: "We did a lot of work on it, and it's no use Microsoft keeping the game in its current form, so we'd like to do something about it (laughs). Phil! Let's do it together!"

Both Xbox and PlatinumGames have previously given explanations of what happened with Scalebound, but in recent months Kamiya has moved to take sole responsibility for the project's eventual cancellation.
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Scalebound is one of the weirdest cases I've ever seen. Every time it was shown it looked like crap and people tore it to pieces. No one seemed interested in it. Yet when it was cancelled it turned into the greatest game ever to be cancelled and Phil was an evil monster for pulling the plug and shit.

Kamiya needs to let it go.
 
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Kamiya is 51 and has been trying to get Scalebound made since the Wii days. Is it just this mythical project to him he cant seem to get done and wants to finish it before he retires? I don't quite understand why he loves it so much but I admire his passion.
 
It clearly needed a lot of work, but I'd love to see what a finished Scalebound given both time and budget could bring to the table.

I've no doubt the combat would be great fun.
 
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