WiLD, Michel Ancel's former PS4 exclusive, was picked up by Ubisoft before being cancelled
, by Thibaut
Back in 2014, Sony and Michel Ancel (creator of Rayman) announced a new license toguether called WiLD. This was to be a PS4 exclusive, and it appeared again at Paris Games Week 2015 before being scrapped altogether.
Alas, a recent interview with Ancel with the Supervouir website shed some light on the tragic fate of this promising game, which will sadly never see the light of day.
"WiLD has had an unfortunate fate. In 2018, we had a very nice playable version, but we took a long time to upgrade the game on PS5, which slowed down production. There were some big management changes at Sony too, and the game was stopped. Ubisoft offered to take it over, and shortly afterwards Sony decided to get it back, even offering to double our budgets! Unfortunately, contracts with Ubisoft were well advanced and we turned down Sony's offer. What a shame!"
"It was during this period that I burned out and, unfortunately, the game fell into the hands of Ubisoft's editorial department in Paris, which was itself in chaos. I was no longer there to defend the game, which was literally crushed by people in this department who were asking for all sorts of changes without actually playing the game. A real scandal. After two years of going nowhere, the game was abandoned on the pretext that it no longer had anything to do with the initial game...".
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Source: superpouvoir.com