<robust><em>Replace: </em></robust>A spokesperson for Sony despatched <em><a href="https://kotaku.com/star-wars-knights-republic-kotor-remake-ps5-canceled-1850885369" goal="_blank" rel="noopener">Kotaku</a></em> a press release concerning the delisted Star Wars: Knights of the Previous Republic reveal trailer, stating it was resulting from licensing points.
Right here’s what Sony instructed Kotaku:
“As a part of regular enterprise, we delist property with licensed music when the licenses expire.”
Curiously, this begs the query: why have the concerned events allowed the license related to the music of the KOTOR remake reveal trailer to run out? Sport Informer will replace this story if it learns extra.
The unique story continues beneath…
Sony kicked off a September 2021 PlayStation Showcase by formally revealing a rumored remake of the traditional RPG, Star Wars: Knights of the Previous Republic, for PlayStation 5. That was the final we heard of it, although, save for a Bloomberg report the next 12 months that acknowledged the undertaking was on indefinite growth maintain on account of main workers departures.
Now, it appears Sony and PlayStation are eradicating most traces of the KOTOR remake, deleting tweets and hiding the reveal trailer on its YouTube channel, as reported by Kotaku.
Yesterday, on the Gaming Leaks And Rumors subreddit, consumer TricolorChutoy posted that the 2021 PlayStation Showcase KOTOR remake reveal trailer had been not too long ago delisted. That very same day, Twitter consumer Crusader II Elessar posted the identical factor, noting, nevertheless, that within the full 2021 PlayStation Showcase video, the KOTOR remake trailer remained. With some extra digging, Crusader II Elessar discovered that PlayStation had seemingly deleted each tweet mentioning the remake, save for the one beneath that additionally mentions different video games.
Keep tuned after the Showcase! We’ll have extra updates from the groups behind:
🔵 God of Warfare Ragnarök
🔵 Star Wars: Knights of the Previous Republic – Remake
🔵 Updates on different new PlayStation Studios titles— PlayStation (@PlayStation) September 9, 2021
Moreover, with some Wayback Machine tinkering, they realized {that a} 2022 snapshot of PlayStation’s Twitter confirmed {that a} totally different tweet completely in regards to the KOTOR remake nonetheless existed, which means its deletion occurred between final 12 months and now.
Sport Informer has reached out to Sony and PlayStation in regards to the hidden trailer and deleted tweets and can replace this story if remark or assertion is acquired.
As for hypothesis on why PlayStation could be doing this, it stems from the remake’s developer: Aspyr Media. Aspyr is owned by Embracer Group, which has been canceling video games and shutting studios in gentle of a present “restructuring program.” After Embracer Group was “knowledgeable that one main strategic partnership that has been negotiated for seven months won’t materialize,” or in different phrases, the collapse of a $2 billion deal as reported by Video Video games Chronicle, it applied this restructuring program.
Given all of that, it wouldn’t be stunning if Aspyr, which Embracer Group acquired in 2021, was affected by the restructuring and the KOTOR remake undertaking canceled. Nevertheless, with no official phrase on the undertaking, that’s hypothesis for now.
[Source: Kotaku, Video Games Chronicle]
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