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Platinum and Kamiya on Scalebound's cancellation

Designer denies taking time off for mental health issues.

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Earlier this week Microsoft announced that Platinum's planned Xbox One and Windows 10 exclusive, Scalebound, had been cancelled. While it wasn't a huge shock given the mixed reaction to the game since its initial announcement, it was still a little surprising, especially as the decision was clearly made very recently (evidence of that being the game's inclusion in Microsoft's 2017 Xbox calendar).

Now Platinum has had its say, via a post on its official blog, where a spokesperson for the studio explained that they are sorry that Microsoft cancelled the game and that they were looking forward to completing it.

We're sorry to say that on January 9, 2017, Microsoft Studios announced the cancellation of Scalebound. 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.

Going forward, we will strive to continue delivering high-quality games to you, starting with NieR:Automata in March, and including products like GRANBLUE FANTASY Project Re:Link and LOST ORDER in the future.

We will keep working hard to meet your expectations and we look forward to your continued support!

Further to that, Platinum's Hideki Kamiya has been offering up his thoughts on the matter over on Twitter. The designer, who has aimed strong words at Microsoft in the past, denied that he had to take time off for mental health reasons, as well as offering his own apologies.

"As you may have already heard, Scalebound has unfortunately been canceled. I'm very sorry to everyone who was looking forward to this game," he wrote, later adding that he was "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."

"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."

Scalebound had been scheduled to land on Xbox One and Windows 10 PC later this year. The studio's next game is Nier: Automata, and you can read more about that here.

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