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https://insider-gaming.com/new-guilty-gear-game-canceled/

A new Guilty Gear game that had been in development has recently been canceled at developer ARC System Works.

Sources say that the game's cancellation took place within the last couple of weeks. As far as a reasoning behind it, nothing was specifically mentioned by those who spoke under the condition of anonymity.

Insider Gaming did reach out to ARC System Works for comment, but had not heard back as of publishing.

Guilty Gear is a fighting series that first debuted in 1998 for the original PlayStation. Since then, there have been seven main line games along with six spin-off titles. The last Guilty Gear game, Guilty Gear Strive, was first released in 2021. It launched on Nintendo Switch in January 2025.

The in-development game had yet to be officially announced. However, when asked what this meant for the future of the series, one source said it was "back to the drawing board", but that, based on what they knew, it wasn't finished.

What do you think of an in-development Guilty Gear title being canceled? Let us know down below, and join the discussion in the official Insider Gaming forums.

 

[Rentahamster]

That sucks, but the Marvel game is probably a higher priority for them assuming they had to decide to where to allocate resources.

 

[Punished Miku]

A new guilty gear game has been stolen from us

 

[Dacvak]

I wonder if it's a full cancellation or if they're just shelving it for after Marvel

 

[Rush2112]

Oh no not the weeb 2d fighting game oh no

 

[onQ123]

https://insider-gaming.com/new-guilty-gear-game-canceled/

Because they found a golden goose they will get back to Guilty Gear later

 

[adamsapple]

Oh no not the weeb 2d fighting game oh no

They canceled one 2d weeb fighting game for another 2d weeb fighting game.

 

[Spyxos]

I didn't get the impression that Guilty Gear sold well, especially after Dragonball.

 

[yurinka]

I highly doubt it, their current Guilty Gear game is (not counting the licensed Dragon Ball FighterZ game) their most successful game ever.

In addition to Tokon, they're working in several other minor games, some internally developed and other ones published by them but externally developed.

the Marvel game is probably a higher priority for them assuming they had to decide to where to allocate resources.

Well, it doesn't work in that way.

Dragon Ball FighterZ was funded by Bandai Namco, meaning they didn't have to worry about it. It sold over 10M copies + addons, meaning that in addition to fund the game, Bandai Namco paid ARC a shit ton of money as part of the profits generated by the game.

Their recent Guilty Gear Strive is -outside DBFZ- their best selling game ever, so also profitable.

With these profits plus other ones generated by other projects, they fund smaller internlally developed projects or games they publish but are externally developed.

Sony funds the Marvel game, meaning ARC doesn't have to worry about it. Pretty likely will sell even more than the DBFZ game.

So they don't have a money problem. In case of amount of people, having money they can hire people. If they don't want to do so and need to take people from other projects, they'd take them from the other smaller projects they have, which includes other fighting game series.

If they'd need to cancel a game they'd cancel one or some of the smaller games, not their most successful series. If something, they may have rebooted its development to make some key important change they may consider it was needed.

 

[Crayon]

It may not have been a mainline entry. That is Daisuke's baby of all babies.

 

[saintjules]

That sucks, but the Marvel game is probably a higher priority for them assuming they had to decide to where to allocate resources.

That's fair. I guess I'm trying to understand why not pause it's development versus canceling it. I guess back to the drawing board it is.