10 Amazing Video Games That Killed Franchises

2012's action-adventure game Gravity Rush wasn't a massive sales hit, but sold enough - and was seemingly budgeted sensibly enough - that a sequel made sense for Sony.

Gravity Rush 2 released for PS4 in 2017, then, and though it was warmly received by critics and fans, it might also be the textbook example of a sequel that was sent out to die.

Sony barely marketed this thing, which was already a follow-up an incredibly niche first game, and also misguidedly released it in early 2017, where all the oxygen was swiftly sucked out of the room by both Sony's own Horizon Zero Dawn and the Nintendo Switch.

And so the most predictable outcome happened - Gravity Rush 2 tanked in sales, ensuring Sony had no interest in further pursuing the franchise. 

Though it wasn't caused by Gravity Rush 2's commercial failure alone, developer Japan Studio was shut down a few years later, reportedly due to Sony's declining interest in producing AA games like, well, Gravity Rush 2.