I'm still baffled that the ENTIRE Western AAA industry is collapsing at the same time. You'd think, oh one or two projects flop right? But nope, it's literally every single one.

>>717165772
>Is there a reason why? Sounds just like the Concord case

Almost identical. Lots of corpo speak about reaching wider and western audiences, and how they wanted 50% of all of Bandai-Namco's games made outside of Japan.

120 people working for 4 years is probably a lot of money, plus buying the studio outright. The game was so bland it flew under the radar, but they might have wasted 200 million on it.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/bandai-namco-acquires-montreal-game-developer-reflector-4062754/
https://www.ign.com/articles/bandai-namco-buys-unknown-9-awakening-developer-reflector