then they should cancel all their games except halo,Forza, and gears xD.

@Nyxus

Just because Microsoft has a lot of money, doesn't mean they can just throw it everywhere. When they invest in something, they expect profit from it. Xbox generates only a minor income out of whole Microsoft.

But QB and recore was good enough to release??
Naw something is happening.
This isn't a good thing at all.

Nah but where's the varity, you may not have like em but others might like some dragons in their game...

I always said Scalebound wouldn't sell on XB1, I thought I was speaking figuratively though.

Platinum are top notch devs, don't downplay it too fervently, it is a real loss.

Yeah, they shouldn't ever take chances. /s

Also, doesn't everyone always talk about how much money MS has and how broke Sony is....but Sony always be taking chances. lol

Instead of just cancelling games, how about they show us new ip's?

So all you want to Halo, Forza and Gears? Then your set next year you will have Halo 6 Forza 7 and Gears 5, the year after that Halo 7 Forza 8 and Gears 6...lol

SAD moment for XBOX fans AGAIN, games shouldn't get cancelled, if its crap make decent and playable and make the sequel EPIC, why show gamers a game like this getting all there hopes up only to then take it away, its not a nice feeling, I think gamers would rather wait for a game than have it cancelled, just look at TLG, 7-8 YEARS waiting or longer, but it still made to the shelves, these games shouldn't be getting cancelled.
Phantom Dust, Fable and now Scalebound.

Well I was part of the Fable beta and must say the game not only sucked but sucked more with each update. MS is killing me lately with there whole new approach on exclusives but I will say there was no saving Fable and we are better off without it. Scalebound I'm sure was still looking like a hot mess and when Phil realized it or checked it out for e3 I'm almost certain he was like wtf! MS wants it's big games to live up to a standard. Platinum games had plenty of time to deliver something promising but all this drama is to much for Phil. I'm not defending MS but it's clear the developer wasn't delivering what they originally wanted to. Sony has been lucky with its developers which is why MS really needs to hunt down and assemble a team that can deliver games. Many new developers out there waiting to be discovered. Scorpio is going to be a huge thing and as depressing as this sounds the game was never going to progress and keep looking half azz .

Why can Sony invest into niche games but Microsoft can't? After all MS have so much money as we're constantly reminded.

I know things are not going well when candystop expresses concern.......

In my opinion, this is why the numbers approach sony adopts works better. Delays and cancellations can often be covered with other games, lessening the blows so to speak.

MS need to turn things around and not only for its gamers but for developers too.....working under Microsoft may not be looking too appealing right about now and you kinda need them to improve the situation.

and you prefer to play...nothing right?
What if all games coming out this year are cancelled because they didn't grab ElementX's attention.. not even you would be satisfied.. imagine everyone else.

Dc you just described a steam box from Microsoft.

Xbox fan here, No defending this. But this doesn't hurt as much as Fable Legends.
At least they teased unannounced projects coming in 2017.

You can't just assume that because the Xbox brand is backed by MS as a company that they're going to dump all kinds of money into it. It's just a division in the MS company and I'm sure they wouldn't hesitate to shut the division down if it's costing them money. Now the Xbox brand makes MS a crap ton of money so it's not going anywhere, I just don't agree when ppl say MS has all this money, why isn't the Xbox brand more effective.

Nah Crackdown will not get cancelled. If they are really struggling with cloud technology they can easily remove it since it's only for the multiplayer part of the game.

I agree with @BlackHavoc here. Just because Xbox is apart of Microsoft. Does not mean Microsoft will pump money into the Xbox division if he Xbox division is losing money. If the Xbox division does indeed start losing money then Microsoft could just close down the Xbox division or sell it.

Am not saying that is going to happen anytime soon because it's not. It's the same with Sony if the PlayStation division started losing Sony money will simply sell that division/brand or close it down. But that division makes Sony plenty of money so they won't be selling of the PlayStation division anytime soon.

Don't know how what Digital said here is any different than what he'd typically say in the past.

Take away this sentence: ***"Now we have another major 2017 game canceled in Scalebound (which was in all honestly looking like absolute cack from the very beginning)"***
And put EXACTLY what he wrote here in an Xbox article yesterday he'd be called a troll...

Now MS cancels Scalebound (which in all honestly had a lot of potential in my opinion) and Digital makes a typical Raptor post it's something that everyone agrees with??? roflamo

Completely agreed.

I've been saying this over and over and over again their entire first party is a house of cards.

When you have so little teams and you're always paying for games in regards to owning the intellectual property but not owning the team or neither you were going to come across situations like this and it's just spreading yourself extremely thin

This is one of the reasons why even without lionhead there wouldn't even be a team to create Fable 4, this is exactly why BioWare was able to even be purchased by Electronic Arts because Microsoft not owning the intellectual property or the team I'm sorry but this company is just a house of cards in regards to their first party all you need to do is take one thing away and they're basically the whole year is ruined.

Guerilla Games is making Horizon zero Dawn but the reality is they have several other teams that could continue the Killzone franchise

That is something that Microsoft can not say about a major franchise if they team left or if a team work on another project.

Isn't it within the realm of possibility that the game might have been cancelled simply because Microsoft didn't even have a team to continue its development?

Consider that many of us talked about the order 1886 having so many issues but lots of us also mentioned that Sony Santa Monica could take over the franchise or Sucker Punch or many other teams that Sony actually has...

Consider how many times have you heard Gamers say that a Heavenly sword 2 could possibly be developed by Sony Santa Monica?

What I'm saying is not only against Microsoft it's in favor of the gamers that enjoy the platform. ..

Microsoft needs more teams there's no reason for them to have more money than Sony yet less teams, they openly choose to be in this situation because they're scared to invest that's what worries me about their placement in the rumors of them leaving the game industry because their actions very much coincide with such a theory.

Regardless of how you feel about the company you cannot deny that having more teams would be welcomed and would fix such a situation like this this is to no benefit to the consumer to have less games and less teams to develop them.

Any person arguing against this is basically arguing against their own damn best interest.....

I'm sorry but less is not better
less games is not awesome
less new intellectual properties is not cool and cancellations of games isn't awesome

I'm just kind of confused.. you state the game looked like crap but then act like it's some huge revelation that it's cancelled.. it's not damage control when you don't care that shit looking games get cancelled.. it's expected

Edmix.. invest in who exactly? It's not like AAA studios are just waiting around for someone to buy them up.. guys seem to think you can just form a naughty dog caliber studio because you want to.. it doesn't work that way..

Damn, I agree with you. What was MS thinking ?

@n4rc

It takes time and persistence. Naughty Dog was cultivated, grown from less to become what they are. Sony rarely buys the finished product. Ms has been in the game long enough to have built a more productive stable. Mismanagement and bad luck has followed ms this gen especially. People want games. Cloud or scorpio hypes can only appease people for a limited time.

Look at Rimeskeems comment below.....he can see that sonys push at working with indies is beneficial in ways that transcend this gen or past that. Ms didn't capitalise on their relationship with indie devs last gen.

@n4rc- "invest in who exactly? It's not like AAA studios are just waiting around for someone to buy them up"

Well they actually are... tons of development teams exist that have limited funding that would probably have no problem being purchased by Microsoft if Microsoft can guarantee the funding to all their major projects.

Did you forget that Sega purchased Atlus? Did you forget that Sega also purchased Relic games along with creative assembly? Ironically enough the team that's actually creating Halo Wars 2....

Sooooo Sega purchased the team that is now creating Halo Wars 2, are you sure that Microsoft could not have purchased such a team?

So Sega can but Microsoft can't? Sony purchased several teams last Generation so Sony could do that in Microsoft can't?

Crytek is on the verge of going out of business is there a reason why Microsoft is not purchasing them despite them making many great first person shooters and holding many great intellectual properties? Did they not make Ryse?

I'm sorry but your argument just Falls to Pieces when you factor other Publishers are purchasing development teams it is not impossible.

So what you're telling me is Microsoft is just incompetent and Sony knows all the tricks to purchasing multiple teams? Help me understand how Sony is able to in Microsoft is not because this doesn't make any sense and it's just the stupidest excuse in light of so many examples.

So Sony has more money than Microsoft to do this? Lol I mean They had zero problems purchasing Minecraft lol

That is particularly troubling when you lay it all out that way.

FF VII smoke and mirrors?

Yeah its not like Squenix had some other major title launching that could use all the spotlight /s

Noap!