Rumor: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake Delayed Indefinitely - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 26 July 2022 / 3,000 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment, Aspyr Media, and Lucasfilm Games in September of last year announced Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake for the PlayStation 5. Sony at the time said it is a "console exclusive on PlayStation 5 at launch."
Bloomberg's Jason Schreier is now reporting the remake has been "delayed indefinitely," according to people familiar with the remake. Developer Aspyr Media fired the game's art director and design director earlier this month and is trying to figure out what to do next.
The two studio heads at Aspyr told employees the remake has been put on pause as it looks for new contracts and opportunities.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake has been in development for nearly three years. Aspyr finalized a demo of the game on June 30, called a vertical slice, to show the progress of the game to partners at LucasFilm and Sony.
The team was excited about showcasing the demo, however, the company one week later fired design director Brad Prince and art director Jason Minor.
Until an official announcement is made this should be treated as a rumor.
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The rumor that Microsoft passed on this project because it did not trust Aspyr now seems a lot more credible
For sure. Every studio wants their opportunity to shine and show they were worth the investment. This was Aspyr's chance and unfortunately didn't pan out. But, if the game was in development for 3 years, the target release date was end of 2022, and all the team had to offer was a vertical slice......shows there was some deep rooted issues with development.
Which for sure I can see why Microsoft would have passed on the project whereas Sony could have been seeing major potential for the studio. It's always a gamble.
Considering Embrace owns Aspyr and they have a contract signed I wouldn't fret to much. If Aspyr doesn't met the agreement them it would harm embracer more than sony I would guess after all in contracts usually who that doesn't comply is the penalized one.
No one cares about any additional rumors here because that's not what this article is about lol. No need to play the console war card so quickly dude. There was a rumor floating around back in May that Microsoft passed on the KOTOR remake. And if this game has been in development for 3 years now, it adds up that there was a high likelihood that Microsoft saw what Aspyr had already been working on, and decided not to pursue it,
Let's just call it for what it is. Aspyr was not the right studio for this project. A KOTOR remake may just be cursed. Not even BioWare Austin could get a remake of this game off the ground before Aspyr decided to give it a go.
You have a better one?
Were those rumors making it around any other outlets other than MrMattyPlays? I don’t recall reading anyone else bringing it up. I don’t think Matty was expecting it to be this bad. He’s just as devastated as the rest of us.
This one hurts. With Schreier reporting on Bloomberg, this has a lot more weight than other "leakers." This story is going to gain a LOT of traction and Aspyr is going to have to make an official announcement soon on whether or not this report is true.
Arrgh!
Ah here we go again with de grain of salty salts!
Delayed indefinitely, we have a simpler word for that it's cancelled
There are definitely similarities between the 2 since both have been through development hell, but the big difference here though is that Aspyr is now actively searching out new contracts and projects while they try to figure out what to do with development of the KOTOR remake. Because if they didn't like the vertical slice, then they're either going to dump majority of what was made or completely reboot the project from scratch. All while working on other games. So we're definitely going to be looking at more than a year to right the ship.
Granted, if this report is true to begin with lol
That is sad, it seemed a very good proposition considering the SW games that were released recently.
Well that's still just a rumor. I still have hopes this is happening; I'm already to play that baby :)
Indefinitely? ouch. hope they get it back on track soon.
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