Sony HidesTrailer For Troubled Star Wars: KOTOR PS5 Remake

A teaser for a Star Wars: Knights of the Outdated Republic remake coming to PlayStation 5 almost stole the present at Sony’s September 2021 showcase. However studies surfaced final yr that the undertaking was already in bother. Now Star Wars followers have seen that Sony not too long ago deleted tweets concerning the sport and has hidden the trailer from its official YouTube channel.

Phrase that the teaser trailer had been faraway from PlayStation’s channel first started to unfold on September 28 on the Gaming Leaks and Rumors subreddit. Twitter consumer Crusader3456 later shared a thread exhibiting that Sony’s tweets concerning the teaser from the unique 2021 PlayStation Showcase had additionally been deleted. The one official point out left seems to be a single tweet selling a number of video games from the livestream.

It’s potential the extremely anticipated KOTOR remake continues to be alive and that is just a few weirdness on the a part of Sony’s social media division. It additionally could be the case that the undertaking, which debuted as a PS5 unique, has all however been canceled amid ongoing improvement points and big finances cuts at mother or father writer Embracer. Sony and Embracer didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

Bloomberg reported in July 2022 that the builders has spent a big period of time and sources on a proof-of-concept demo that didn’t previous muster at a overview assembly. A number of senior leads had been let go from the undertaking, and the next month improvement on the KOTOR remake shifted to Saber Interactive in Europe (Aspyr is predicated in Texas).

Quick-forward a yr, and mother or father firm Embracer is instituting cuts throughout its sprawling portfolio, together with canceling video games and shutting down complete studios like Volition, after reportedly dropping out on a $2 billion funding from Saudi Arabia. Aspyr additionally introduced in June that it will bail on transport a promised DLC pack for its Star Wars: Knights of the Outdated Republic 2 remaster on Swap. A fan is now suing.

A profitable remake of KOTOR could be a lynchpin undertaking for any writer, particularly as new Star Wars reveals flood Disney+ yearly. It will even be an extremely bold and difficult endeavor for even the most effective studio. It’s not but clear if Embracer has given up hope on the undertaking. Followers actually nonetheless haven’t.