10 Dumbest Reasons Why Video Games Were Cancelled

When gaming visionary, Hideo Kojima, announced he was working on Silent Hills with Walking Dead star, Norman Reedus, and Oscar-winning director, Guillermo del Toro, fans lost their collective minds. Then when a demo was released in 2014, it was critically acclaimed.

"P.T." simply sounded too good to be true.

Sadly, it was.

After Konami decided to focus on Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain instead of Silent Hills, Kojima's project was shut down. Naturally, fans were devastated they would never play this game, knowing it had the potential to be a masterpiece.

As frustrating as this was, games get cancelled in similar ways all the time. Due to budget limitations, changes in the company, lack of resources or time restraints, thousands of potential games have been abandoned. This can be very frustrating for gamers and developers, but the reason why is usually understandable.

Usually.

There are times however, when a game is cancelled for the dumbest reason possible. Some of the reasons on this list will sound childish, stupid, or fabricated, but there are those decision-makers who will scrap years of work on a whim, for the most idiotic reasons imaginable.

Nobody thought the Pirates of the Caribbean film would be good, but it went on to become a billion-dollar franchise, spawning sequels, reinvigorating Johnny Depp's career, and being the biggest thing to come out of Disney for a decade.

Naturally, the company merchandised the hell out of the Pirates series.

Surprisingly, Disney didn't seem to focus much on video games. There have been a few Pirates games but the quality ranges from mediocre to terrible. So when Propaganda Games released a stunning trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned, it looked like Disney had sorted out its priorities.

Armada of the Damned was a prequel, and would focus on completely different characters, which was a smart move since the game didn't come across as a rushed movie tie-in.

Sadly, Disney scrapped it to focus on the movie tie-in, Tron: Evolution, to prepare for the release of the film, Tron: Legacy.

Disney assumed the film would be such a hit, it would become the next big franchise. Sadly, Tron: Evolution didn't do well at the box office, the franchise was scrapped, and the game was terrible.

This means Pirates: Armada of the Damned was canned... for nothing.