{"id":11296,"date":"2025-11-13T22:44:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T14:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=11296"},"modified":"2025-11-13T22:44:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T14:44:31","slug":"god-of-war-dev-had-a-new-ip-canceled-after-25-million-was-spent-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=11296","title":{"rendered":"God Of War Dev Had A New IP Canceled After $25 Million Was Spent On It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1179\/11799911\/4601875-screenshot2025-11-13at9.03.10%E2%80%AFam.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-content-element-selector=\"p, .js-buylink-item-container\" data-allowed-classes-selector=\"js-buylink-item-container\">\n<p>Former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida has discussed cancelling games during his tenure at the company, including a new IP from God of War developer Santa Monica Studio. Sony had invested $25 million into the game, saw potential in it, but ultimately decided to shut it down and eat the cost.<\/p>\n<p>Yoshida said on the My Perfect Console podcast that this new game was not a God of War title, but it had a &#8220;really amazing concept and very interesting gameplay ideas.&#8221; Sony worked on this game for &#8220;many years&#8221; but after spending $25 million on it, the studio itself approached Yoshida to say things were not working out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They came to me and said, &#8216;We have to stop.&#8217; I do not exactly remember the reason&#8211;probably the team was not able to find the game. It was a great concept, great idea, but you know, the gameplay didn&#8217;t really come to be,&#8221; he said, as reported by VGC.<\/p>\n<p>  <iframe height=\"352\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"embed-iframe\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" data-service-name=\"spotify\" id=\"spotify-embed-282154380\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\" data-src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/2Plu6ciaLMfso6xWbRqQuz?utm_source=generator\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yoshida did not provide a timeline for when this occurred, however. Earlier this year, it was reported that Sony canceled a live-service God of War game, but the one Yoshida is speaking about was a new IP.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the interview, Yoshida said cancelling games is a normal part of the business because the creative process involves lots of iteration. Cancelling games early in their development &#8220;doesn&#8217;t cost us much,&#8221; Yoshida said, but it was a &#8220;really hard decision&#8221; to cancel the new IP at Santa Monica Studio because of the time and money involved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I think in this case, the team at Santa Monica Studio by themselves was like, &#8216;You know, we probably have to stop,'&#8221; Yoshida said.<\/p>\n<p>Yoshida also discussed another game he oversaw the cancellation of, and this was a title from an unspecified European studio. Yoshida did not share much in the way of specifics, but said this was a &#8220;big-budget project&#8221; that lacked a &#8220;core game&#8221; and did not go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These days, $25 million cancellation is nothing special. [There are] much bigger cancellations,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Yoshida went on to say cancelling these projects was ultimately in the best interest of the developers and the business overall. &#8220;If we continued, it just got bigger and bigger in terms of [financial] loss, and the developers eventually get tired of working on these. And it&#8217;s not healthy to work on something that&#8217;s struggling for the longest time,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Yoshida added that, when the decision to cancel a game came down during his time at Sony, he tried to communicate with the developers about how it might be rough to abandon a project, but sometimes it&#8217;s necessary. &#8220;Not doing this means we can do something different, something new, like brand new. So let&#8217;s do the fresh restart,&#8221; he said he told developers.<\/p>\n<p>Yoshida also made headlines recently for saying he would have &#8220;resisted&#8221; Sony&#8217;s push into live-service games and that he was surprised Horizon Forbidden West didn&#8217;t sell as well as expected. Yoshida also talked about why there hasn&#8217;t been a Bloodborne remaster yet. He left Sony earlier this year after 30+ years. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/god-of-war-dev-had-a-new-ip-canceled-after-25-million-was-spent-on-it\/1100-6536176\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida has discussed cancelling games during his tenure at the company, including a new IP from God of War developer Santa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3716,4140,3543,787,1170,3544],"class_list":["post-11296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-canceled","tag-dev","tag-god","tag-million","tag-spent","tag-war","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}