Perfect Dark Cancelled, The Initiative Shut Down

OOF, but again, didn't they took like 7 years and never showed anything but a couple measly trailers?

i think theres something fundamentaly wrong with the current industry when you take half a decade to push out games that ultimately come out under-cooked.
 
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Everything that was blatantly obvious about Microsoft not being able to manage these studios is coming out in the wash.
 
I audibly gasped. Probably because I read the everwild news first.

Fable...? It's been a great long while and we haven't see shit to indicate progress.
 
That's a lot of money down the drain. I was interested in what a AAAA game (outside of GTA) looked like.
 
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ReasonBeing said:
That's a lot of money down the drain. I was interested in what a AAAA game (outside of GTA) looked like.
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This is insane. I guess Perfect Dark is officially a dead franchise. No one is going go try to pick it up again after this failure. It's just a game that had a really good initial entry made back when Rare's IP were viewed as valuable, and everyone wondered why not try to do more with this series but that won't be enough to inspire confidence in ever green-lighting looking at this series again. Really disappointing.
 
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There's an old Soviet proverb in Slavic languages: no Initiative goes unpunished (инициатива наказуема).

This is a perfect storm to finally use it here, I guess.
 
DreamcastSkies said:
This is insane. I guess Perfect Dark is officially a dead franchise. No one is going go try to pick it up again after this failure. It's just a game that had a really good initial entry made back when Rare's IP were viewed as valuable, and everyone wondered why not try to do more with this series but that won't be enough to inspire confidence in ever green-lighting looking at this series again. Really disappointing.
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The last good PD game is already 25 years old. There was basically one.

This series was dead after Zero. Got an unexpected announcement for current gen but seeing the direction it took it might better off this way.
 
Dr.Morris79 said:
If you hurry you can still Wishlist it

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Why the fuck is she working for DataDyne and going against Carrington? Was this supossed to be a prequel or some shit?

Not that it matters now I guess.
 
I remember when they were creating these studios to better bolster their Studio Lineup against PlayStations army of Studios that it had built over the generations. Fast forward to 2025, now they are just closing down studios and laying off thousands of people after spending record billions in acquisitions, including buying an entire Publisher, if not The biggest at the time. I feel Microsoft has already gotten what it wants out of Gaming. If they are going to do anything else, it'll be some kind of attempt to slow down Steam OS.
I can't be the only one here who will dual boot, once I feel it's ready.

Anyway, I know they read forums, because one of the things we used to shit on MS for was it's lack of studios. After sometime, they started assembling all kinds of studios, like Black Tusk, *<Foldded into The Coalition, The Coalition, Worlds Edge, ETC. They've acquired more than they've created, though.
I am more concerned about the people losing their jobs. My absolute heartfelt to them.
 
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With news the trailer was fake, now clearly evident looking back, this whole thing was a shit show. FIRE Phil. Don't let him hang around until next console.
 
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Still wonder what this doughnut was looking at here pretending it was PD. Probably one of those eShop hentai games or some shit;

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GHG said:
Still doing killzone 2 and motorstorm style trailers in 2024 is wild.
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And yet despite the flashy Motorstorm trailer, it's not as if the final product looked like a 64-bit game, it is a franchise that would be more than welcome with its sense of variety that you don't get now...
 
Omg that's such a bad news, that's depressing.......

The people who were involved in the project must be devastated. I was waiting for this game so much

The worst is when people in here cheer when things like that happen. It makes this website look bad and less credible.
 
Ceadeus said:
Omg that's such a bad news, that's depressing.......

The people who were involved in the project must be devastated. I was waiting for this game so much

The worst is when people in here cheer when things like that happen. It makes this website look bad and less credible.
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It makes MS look less credible with their whole experiment with smoke & mirrors.
 
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