10 Video Games Cancelled For The WORST Reasons
1. Sonic X-Treme (SEGA)
You know that episode of FRIENDS where Joey shouts, "Joey doesn't share food!", then proceeds to eat off his date's plate? Sometimes when we're the ones being hypocrites, it's not so easy to see the double-standards at play.
Yet, for Sonic X-Treme, it was this refusal to share toys that (at least in part) resulted in its cancellation.
You see, Sonic X-Treme was a game with lofty ambitions - it was to be one of the Sega Saturn's big flagship titles, showing off the speed and multiple layers of parallax scrolling the console could handle, in a 2.5D format (think, Klonoa, or Bug!).
However, in order to achieve this, Sega would need to use the proprietary NiGHTS Into Dreams engine, "Nights", and Yuji Naka refused to share the technology as it would take attention away from his new project, NiGHTS Into Dreams (with Sonic's presence being an automatic draw for the general public).
Of course, there are likely other factors at play - a playable segment of Sonic X-Treme was leaked to some extremely mixed responses, so it's not certain the game could have succeeded even with the tech blessing of Yuji Naka himself.
All I know is, now when I picture that FRIENDS scene, I just see Yuji Naka's face, covered in chocolate cake.