Platnium Games’ Hideki Kamiya has taken to Twitter in the wake of Scalebound’s cancellation, apologising to fans and promising to do better in the future.
As you may have already heard, Scalebound has unfortunately been canceled. I'm very sorry to everyone who was looking forward to this game.
— 神谷英樹 Hideki Kamiya (@PG_kamiya) January 11, 2017
Sorry to bring you such bad news at the start of the year. All I can do for you is to promise to keep delivering fun games.
— 神谷英樹 Hideki Kamiya (@PG_kamiya) January 11, 2017
I'll work extra hard to never have to let you down like this again, so I hope you will keep watching over us in the future too.
— 神谷英樹 Hideki Kamiya (@PG_kamiya) January 11, 2017
Kamiya also addressed claims of failing mental health.
And…I took time off for my mental health? …Me!?
No way.
— 神谷英樹 Hideki Kamiya (@PG_kamiya) January 11, 2017
Meanwhile, Platinum released an official statement itself, saying “we are very disappointed things ended up this way, especially since we know many of our fans were looking forward to this game as much as we were.”
Platinum’s next title, NieR Automata, heads to PS4 on 10 March.
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