The ex-president of SIE Worldwide Studios has just revealed that he had to cancel a new game from God of War devs Santa Monica Studio… after having already invested a whopping $25 million into the project.

Games get cancelled all the time, unfortunately. Most of the time, they’re usually canned during conceptual phases, which is why we never end up hearing about them until years after the fact.

Sometimes, though, games are cancelled midway through development. Some are even cancelled close to the finish line. Most recently, Microsoft was criticised for scrapping several games that were, according to the teams behind them, borderline close to completion.

It is, however, very rare that you hear the exact sum that studios have invested into these cancelled projects.

Shuhei Yoshida, the fo

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