10 Video Games That KILLED Other Video Games
We finally got a new Half-Life game, but at what cost?
The business of video game development sure is a tough one, and considerably more secretive than, say, the world of movies or TV.
As such, so many more games will be cancelled internally than we'll ever actually hear about, but when a high-profile project get canned publicly, it certainly rubs fans the wrong way.
And there are of course dozens of reasons that a game can be shuttered - perhaps it's been mismanaged, progress is moving too slowly, or shifts in the market mean it's just not commercially viable right now.
But sometimes the reason is actually another video game itself, the existence of which results in an anticipated title being shelved.
Perhaps one game flopped and eroded publisher confidence in the development team to produce a hit, the developer was moved onto another project which killed the one they were originally working on, or maybe a game performed well enough that the devs just scrapped the sequel outright.
Whatever the reason, these 10 video games all got the chop because of another game that came to market, for better or worse...
10. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Killed Silent Hills
In August 2014, it was announced that a new Silent Hill game, Silent Hills, was in development at Konami, with Metal Gear Solid's Hideo Kojima collaborating with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and actor Norman Reedus on the project.
The moody, visually stunning Playable Teaser (P.T.) released for the game got fans extremely excited, but in April 2015 Konami abruptly announced that Silent Hills had been cancelled.
It later transpired that the game was a casualty of the frayed relationship between Konami and Kojima that reached a fever pitch during development of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which ultimately released a few months after Silent Hills' cancellation.
If you believe Konami, Kojima went over-budget and over-schedule on the project, while Kojima's supporters claim that Konami forced him to effectively release an unfinished game.
Either way, Metal Gear Solid V was the clear result of artistic compromise, and given that rumours emerged in March 2015 that Kojima would leave Konami once development on the game was finished - as he did - it's easy to draw a direct line to Silent Hills getting the chop the next month.
Though Kojima was able to re-establish his Kojima Productions studio independently after leaving Konami, he'll likely never be able to revive the Silent Hills project given that the IP is owned by Konami.