Thu, Jun 12, 2008 | 13:37 BST
MGS Europe: We will never cancel a game
Speaking to GI, Microsoft Games Studios’ Peter Zetterberg has said that first-party development for the firm would never cancel a project.
“Maybe we sometimes announce them earlier than we should, but we stick with them, we have our resources team work with them as much as we can,” he said.
“It’s crunch time down in Guildford now and we have people working their butts off to make Fable 2 happen. We do not, we shall not cancel games.”
Zetterberg come a week after SCEE dropped both The Getaway and Eight Days, two internal projects being developed at the company’s London Studio.
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Posted in: Development, Europe, Microsoft, Trade, UK, Xbox 360
Tags: microsoft games studios, Peter Zetterberg
10 comments
#1
Blerk
12/06/08, 1:39 pm
Apart from B.C. And that Marvel MMO thing. And some other stuff, no doubt. What a stupid thing to say.
#2
Blerk
12/06/08, 1:39 pm
Oh yeah – and True Fantasy Live Online.
#3
morriss
12/06/08, 1:41 pm
Yeah, we’ll try and make money off it no matter shit it is.
Cheers, MS!
#4
Psychotext
12/06/08, 1:48 pm
Blerk: MGS Europe, not MGS.
#5
Newbie101
12/06/08, 1:55 pm
damn! I had 5mins before you come in started defending MS not 9mins!
/pays sweepstake money to blerk
#6
Blerk
12/06/08, 1:55 pm
Which games have MGS Europe actually made, then? Aren’t Lionhead part of MGS Europe?
Regardless, it’s a totally stupid thing to say. What if something’s turning out shit? You can never say never.
#7
Whizzo
12/06/08, 2:07 pm
MGSE might not cancel anything, their bosses in Redmond will probably just order it.
#8
G1GAHURTZ
12/06/08, 2:13 pm
I’d take his statement more as one of intent rather than a unconditional principle of MGS Europe.
Like many companies who say; “We don’t do overtime.”
#9
Robo_1
12/06/08, 2:21 pm
A rather bizarre statement to make really. It’s never nice to see a project cancelled before it’s released, but sometimes it’s necessary. Why waste time and money on a project which for whatever reason, is in trouble, and is likely to fail both creatively and commercially.
A daft bit of opportunism on MGS’s part really, which could come back to bite them in the future.
#10
Psychotext
12/06/08, 2:24 pm
They wont cancel them if they have a problem… they’ll indefinitely delay them.