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Port of Wonderful101 for Xbox One was discarded because the engine for the console was "too different"
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FFS how many boots do you have to lick to think "Microsoft mishandled Scalebound" is this deep conspiracy theory? At the end of the day, it was the publisher's decision to cancel the project. Simple as that. Believe whatever you want but my initial point is that there still might be some resentment between the two.
Stop. We've moved on. It's best you no longer speak on this subject.
Maybe they didn't wanna go through the certification process for 2 consoles and PC? Enough time would be spent going through certification for Switch, PS4 and PC. Perhaps they felt the effort would be well spent since those platforms have a bigger install base? Especially with wanting to release by May.
*shrugs* beats me...
*shrugs* beats me...
Anyways, sucks to hear, I was a bit hesitant when it was clearly not a goal but it is what it is.
Platinum literally just released a back to back on Xbox a week ago, so this is a bit of a shock, it doesn't sound entirely unreasonable that they might not be able to pull it off in house and not having the money to do that at the moment. They're trying to invigorate their studio at the moment so I can understand not pushing resources where they don't think they should.
Hopefully MS can hop in and help find someone to help with a port later, better later than never.
Platinum literally just released a back to back on Xbox a week ago, so this is a bit of a shock, it doesn't sound entirely unreasonable that they might not be able to pull it off in house and not having the money to do that at the moment. They're trying to invigorate their studio at the moment so I can understand not pushing resources where they don't think they should.
Hopefully MS can hop in and help find someone to help with a port later, better later than never.
Inevitably, every six months I need to come post here to shut down some blowhard who insists they know why Scalebound was cancelled.
I know exactly why the game was cancelled, in excruciating detail. You have no idea what you are talking about. Every public comment I've seen made about the cancellation, either by MS, or my former employers, has been people telling the truth. If you'd like to make some meta-commentary on MS's strategy regarding the Xbox, go right ahead, but Scalebound should not be your data point. If you'd like to imply that some unknown, unfounded resentment is why W101 isn't being ported, go right ahead, but you are simply making things up.
Doesn't at all line up with my understanding of how the Xbox One works but I'm admittedly just armchairing it.
I don't know who you are!
But I believe you. Does that make everyone feel better?
The Ex-Creative Producer at Platinum Games during Scalebound's development.
JP Kellams (@synaesthesiajp) | Twitter
The latest Tweets from JP Kellams (@synaesthesiajp). Producer @EAMaddenNFL. #SuperstarKO and new stuff. Ex-Creative Producer @platinumgames. Lover of bikes, beer, and donuts. Tweets != Official EA statement. Orlando, FL
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i havent seen ownage like this since before the war.Amazing.
There are clues to solve that mystery hidden in about a dozen replies to you.
You can't even work out who you're talking to based on the past entire page of responses but we're supposed to take your 'educated conspiracy theories' to heart?
I remember the Digital Foundry folks saying that what they've heard from devs is that the Xbox One developer tools are nowhere near as good as the PS4's. That might be what they're referring to.
The engine reason confuses me.
I would have assumed if it can be ported to PS4 it can be ported to Xbox.
I would have assumed if it can be ported to PS4 it can be ported to Xbox.
I'm really sorry he's a person I respect and I felt really bad for him when the game was cancelled.The Ex-Creative Producer at Platinum Games during Scalebound's development.
JP Kellams (@synaesthesiajp) | Twitter
The latest Tweets from JP Kellams (@synaesthesiajp). Producer @EAMaddenNFL. #SuperstarKO and new stuff. Ex-Creative Producer @platinumgames. Lover of bikes, beer, and donuts. Tweets != Official EA statement. Orlando, FL
You should be really sorry at your posts in this thread and lack of respect you showed him and other Platinum member's quotes because it conflicts with your narrative that it's all Xbox's fault and they deserve all the blame.
Allot of assumptions get made of the Xbox fan base when it comes to Japan developed games. I think availability is the major problem. For example the Kingdom Hearts collection is coming out now for Xbox fans. I waited and waited hoping square would put it on the system before 3 came out but now a year after 3 it's available and I just don't care now. Would there be cost savings by just releasing games digitally on Xbox while keeping physical for Switch and PS4? I feel like until games are actually available when they launch the Xbox will never gain ground.
Architecturally, the original game is written in a customized Radeon R600/R700 architecture. I'm assuming that it takes some amount of expense to port to x86 architecture to Switch, then on top of that, add another expense to port to PS4/PS5.
Hint: Look at the handle on top of the character and then look at the name of the poster they are quoting.
I don't know how much you know about the Japanese language (I'm an expert) but this is a pretty common mistranslation of the phrase "we didn't think it was worth it".
Switch owners reading another seemingly nonsensical excuse from a developer...
...then realising it's not the Switch being excluded for once..
...then realising it's not the Switch being excluded for once..
If someone banned Spyder_Monkey on account of this thread, I'd lobby for the unban. He reached out and said he was sorry to me (and hopefully others), and if this thread itself didn't teach a lesson, I'm not sure a ban sends any sort of different message.
Xbox user base rarely gets to pass judgement on these types of games because they don't get released on the platform due to presumptive reasoning like this
Ok. Guess we don't need to release all them Xbox shooters on PS4.
wait....
Hence he'd be someone who is able to speak personally to what happened. Given, know. He's involved.
Oh god noooo, that GIF went dark really fast...Switch owners reading another seemingly nonsensical excuse from a developer...
...then realising it's not the Switch being excluded for once..
(joking about the low brightness in the 2nd GIF...)
