18 Most WTF Gaming Industry Moments Of 2017

17. Scalebound Gets Cancelled

Scalebound Screen
Platinum Games

It's almost a year to the day that Microsoft announced that PlatinumGames' long-awaited new action-RPG Scalebound had been cancelled.

2017 was an extremely disappointing year for exclusive titles on the Xbox One, and Scalebound's cancellation set the tone early on.

Though the game certainly divided players and not everyone was convinced it would be a AAA smash hit - least of all Microsoft, evidently - it's nevertheless extremely depressing that Microsoft saw fit to kill a game that was clearly already in a deep stage of development.

Xbox's Phil Spencer later commented that the game was probably announced too early, creating a level of hype that PlatinumGames simply couldn't live up to. Ouch.

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