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Switch Rumor Archive Rebirth (Read posting rules in OP)
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If I had to choose between Scalebound and MML3 I'd choose Scalebound just to see the reaction of Microsoft and Nintendo working together. This would show how good their relationship is and we'd get to see if Nintendo can work with Platinum to save it.
If I use my head though the answer is MML3. That's just wayyyyyyy easier to get done and on the Switch. It's one company being Capcom too who's not a competitor.
If I use my head though the answer is MML3. That's just wayyyyyyy easier to get done and on the Switch. It's one company being Capcom too who's not a competitor.
For sure. Both projects would probably be completely rebooted on Switch, but Scalebound is by far the more ambitious title.
Any game is on the table. I think it's been too long since Starcraft Ghost, though.
They might, but deals like this have this annoying habit of being torpedoed when 3 or more parties are involved. Rare produced an updated XBLA version of Goldeneye 007 in the late 2000's that was something like 95% complete when Nintendo made a last minute arbitrary decision to pull the plug on it. They would have got the rights to release on VC for the game, Microsoft would get the updated version, and both parties would win. Instead they just squabbled. EA in general has never before expressed interest in doing remaster type releases and Nintendo hasn't acknowledged Rogue Squadron in a very long time.
I'd love for it to happen, Rogue Squadron 2 is such a nostalgic game for me and I still have my cube set up with that game ready to play. It's just one of those things that strikes me as implausible.
It's never too late and a Blizzard IP will always get attention, but yeah Starcraft's time is long past
https://nintendoeverything.com/rumo...d-and-buried-game-kingdom-hearts-switch-talk/
NateDrake said it's not a Nintendo game.
I trust Imran and Natedrake but I am guessing they have not come out and said it's a capcom game or teased MML3 it's just people guessing from not a Nintendo game and a confirmed cancelled game?
If StarCraft Ghost is coming back, it'll be as a f2p mobile game.
Yep. Two other popular guesses are Scalebound and Silent Hills.
Maybe someday if we're lucky, information on Dread and Prime4v1 will come to light and we'll get some good writeups from Mama Robotnik again, those threads back on gaf were juicy
I'll keep expectations down since it's just guess work and not from them. That said things have been shitty for me lately and MML3 would be a special thing for me.
I can envision absolutely no scenario in which Konami would want to give up Silent Hills without charging Nintendo a small fortune, and I find it hard to believe EA would greenlight an exclusive Star Wars for Switch given contractual complexities of who does/does not own the license and financial expectations from EA and Disney shareholders.
Scalebound at least fits with the recurring theme of Nintendo wasting money on Platinum character action games that don't sell particularly well, haha.
From a cost recovery perspective, not a quality perspective.
RE: their relationship with Platinum
I think it's more about keeping a certian type of gamer engaged.
Not many devs are easy to work with, so I assume it just worked out for all involved that Nintendo found a studio that can cover a genre they don't do very well.
That's what platform holders are supposed to be doing anyways.
They learned their lesson with Wii chasing short term high selling games and ignoring the smaller scale titles which tend to keep certain types of players engaged, especially if those games are exclusive.
The other side of the coin is that Platinum is one of the only large work for hire companies that are still around. The industry is getting snapped up by publishers and 1st parties left and right at a fairly alarming pace. Other publishers are pulling out of projects with Platinum so if Nintendo wants to boost its output without establishing whole new studios there really aren't that many developers they can turn to anymore. If they want to stick to Japan, even fewer.
Right that's true as well and they're Japanese which fixes a lot of cultural issues Nintendo seem to have with their western partners.
Nintendo opened and funded a bunch of subsidaries and partnered studios in the early 2000s, NDcube, AlphaDream, Brownie Brown, Good Feel. I feel them working with Platinum falls under that umbrella of expanding development resources outside of Nintendo's core teams. It's not throwing money away in Platinum's case if it keeps a few million core players who buy 20 games a year engaged with the platform.
But what if, at least since we're just spit-balling, it was more of a mutual thing where a) Nintendo sees the opportunity for an exclusive survival horror title on their console and is willing to fund it and b) Konami, after already seeing how easy this is when they just loan out the licenses to their properties and let 'em have it, goes in with Nintendo on such an endeavor? It doesn't have to be 100% a revival of Silent Hills, itself, as I don't think they could even get Kojima or del Toro, let anybody else associated with the old project. But a new, from the ground up Silent Hill game would still be something that I think would be more than worth it.
And assuming there's still the possibility of a Castlevania game on Switch that we have yet to see (at least, going by Vergeben's rumors), all of that, plus Super Bomberman R, Hyper Sports R, and the recently revealed YGO all are indicators of a healthy relationship between Nintendo and Konami, with maybe at least one "major" franchise being an option, as well.
The hype around a Wonderful 101 port makes no sense to me as it looks like an insanely pedestrian game 👀
If it was Multiplatform on Xbox and PS4 the hype would be considerably less.
It won't. Canceled collaborations aren't something that you can just suddenly release on a competitor's platform. There are going to be ironclad clauses in the initial deal between Microsoft and Platinum that protect the work from ever seeing the light of day in the event of a cancellation.
You're surprised that a game that's beloved because of how satisfying and deep the combat is and how fun the story escalation is doesn't lend itself well to brief outside observation?
Well the extent of its belovedness is largely within resetera. Elsewhere people are less emphatic. Not that it's bad or anything.
But I don't know if Scalebound is worth that.
It would be possible if Nintendo and MS reached an agreement, though.
But I don't know if Scalebound is worth that.
A lot of games have been canceled over the years, but usually behind the scenes where we find out from rumors after the fact. If we are looking at ones that made a lot of news, these are what come to mind for me as some reasonable guesses(assuming its not a Nintendo game):
Cry On
Megaman Legends 3
Megaman Universe
Star Wars 1313(or other recently canned EA Star Wars stuff)
Scalebound
Silent Hills
Castlevania 1999
Prey 2
Of course there are many more cancelled games over years, but most are games that were never really officially announced or officially cancelled, so the list isn't really that large when it comes to games that were cancelled publicly.
Yes there was a Baten Kaitos DS in development at one point. I don't know if that jives with the rumor being non Nintendo developed. It was never really officially announced or canceled though.
Cry On
Megaman Legends 3
Megaman Universe
Star Wars 1313(or other recently canned EA Star Wars stuff)
Scalebound
Silent Hills
Castlevania 1999
Prey 2
Of course there are many more cancelled games over years, but most are games that were never really officially announced or officially cancelled, so the list isn't really that large when it comes to games that were cancelled publicly.
Yes there was a Baten Kaitos DS in development at one point. I don't know if that jives with the rumor being non Nintendo developed. It was never really officially announced or canceled though.
I'm shocked people are honestly entertaining and even expecting Scalebound lol
1. PlatinumGames has probably all but spent its workforce between Astral Chain, Bayonetta 3, Babylon's Fall, Granblue Fantasy Relink, and chipping away at their own self published games like they said they wanted to do. Even if let's say most of the team on Astral Chain finished their job months before release and you group them with the Granblue people, they would have just barely began like yesterday or something, which would have somehow leaked immediately. It wouldn't be out for a good 3 years.
2. The legality of ownership for Scalebound is a mess that would never be touched. Thus resources and vision would need to be created from scratch which is quite expensive tovrevive the concept from the dead especially with the scope we saw before it was cancelled
1. PlatinumGames has probably all but spent its workforce between Astral Chain, Bayonetta 3, Babylon's Fall, Granblue Fantasy Relink, and chipping away at their own self published games like they said they wanted to do. Even if let's say most of the team on Astral Chain finished their job months before release and you group them with the Granblue people, they would have just barely began like yesterday or something, which would have somehow leaked immediately. It wouldn't be out for a good 3 years.
2. The legality of ownership for Scalebound is a mess that would never be touched. Thus resources and vision would need to be created from scratch which is quite expensive tovrevive the concept from the dead especially with the scope we saw before it was cancelled
Why would it cost a small fortune? The project is dead.its a win win situation kind of thing where Nintendo gets a good exclusive and Konami a risk free licencing deal.
I don't think the game is Silent Hills, but Konami wouldn't give it up. It's not like the Scalebound scenario where Microsoft would need to sell the IP to Nintendo (or let them use it).
Nintendo would pay the bill for Silent Hills, Konami would do the game exclusively for the Switch because it would be published by Nintendo. Bayonetta style : Sega doesn't want to pay the bill to make a new one, Nintendo steps in.
if I had to guess at the revived game rumor (keep in mind the cancelation needed to be public in some form):
Goldeneye remaster as a XBLA/Switch Online Store release plus original on N64 Classic (easiest and cheapest of the potential games on list to make especially with how the last Sony Bond film underperformed)
Mother 3 or Dinosaur Planet remake(err re-port? Retroactive artistic reversal?) for N64 Classic
Super Mario 64-2 (Maybe they have enough Oddessy multiplayer stats+3D World sales figures to give this another go)
Pilotwings Reboot from GameCube era (Factor 5 rose from their grave recently)
Goldeneye remaster as a XBLA/Switch Online Store release plus original on N64 Classic (easiest and cheapest of the potential games on list to make especially with how the last Sony Bond film underperformed)
Mother 3 or Dinosaur Planet remake(err re-port? Retroactive artistic reversal?) for N64 Classic
Super Mario 64-2 (Maybe they have enough Oddessy multiplayer stats+3D World sales figures to give this another go)
Pilotwings Reboot from GameCube era (Factor 5 rose from their grave recently)