Essentially their ”most optimistic” expectations for the title were bad, real bad. Hirshberg says bluntly that it ”just wasn’t going to be good enough.”
”Even our most optimistic internal projections show that continued investment was not going to lead to a title at, or near, the top of the competitive open world genre,” said big boss Eric Hirshberg. ”In an industry where only the best games in each category are flourishing, to be blunt, it just wasn’t going to be good enough.”
”The day I arrived at the company I said that I believed the best way to achieve commercial success was to provide gamers with highest possible creative quality,” he added. ”The decision to stop production on True Crime is based solely on that belief.”
Ouch.
”These are tough decisions but we believe they are the right decision being made for the right reasons and they reflect our ongoing commitment to delivering the games that gamers want to play.” United Front Games developed PS3/PSP ModNation Racers.
True Crime: Hong Kong was effectively a reboot for the True Crime franchise since the very lacklustre performance of the series from original developer Luxoflux. It was scheduled for release on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC later this year.
