Push Square has article about Abandoned, the developer and project that swept through the hordes of social media and even generated some bets involving body parts in the forums.
Clearly there’s no game here, and we can’t imagine Abandoned will ever release. But it raises an interesting question about how an unknown studio managed to go viral around the world, and even release an app on the PS Store. It’s an incredible story in hindsight, and it speaks to the power of social media.
Would hardly be the first time some dev made ambitious promises that turned out to be vaporware.
The question is how did they get featured on the PS Blog and a trailer app released on the store? This guy is just exceptionally good at convincing Sony that it’s a real studio and game?
Microsoft should pick up this game instead. There was a lot of hype with this game and it would be a boon for the Xbox, if MS was to bring this game out, instead of Sony.
No. Do not touch this scam. I’m not sure how but Sony got grifted hard here.
The ONLY reason there was hype for this is because of fanboys saying it was secretly PS5 exclusive Silent Hill by Kojima / Sony Japan Studio (RIP). If Xbox picks it up everyone would lose all interest.
The only reason people care is because they got it into their heads it was another Kojima ruse, everything about this looks dodgy and MS shouldn’t involve themselves in things purely for hype, sometimes they absolutely should and I feel Sony do a better job of this but this is not one of those times