A little over a year afterwards the Xbox One was revealed Lost Ark Gold, PlatinumGames had arise a affiliation with Microsoft to aftermath Scalebound, the studio's aboriginal action-RPG. However, as the years past, admirers would eventually apprentice that the Scalebound activity had been canceled in 2017 afterwards it had been delayed from a 2016 absolution window. Both Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer and PlatinumGames admiral Atsushi Inaba accept lamented the game's abandoning publicly, but Inaba and PlatinumGames carnality admiral Hideki Kamiya accept afresh bidding a admiration to acknowledgment to the fantasy ARPG.
In an annual with IGN Japan, both Inaba and Kamiya bidding a aboveboard admiration to revisit the game, affecting Microsoft to attainable babble about bringing aback Scalebound. "Kamiya has consistently basal to do Scalebound. So we’d like to accept a able altercation with Microsoft," declared Inaba. Kamiya additionally jumped in enthusiastically, advertence "Phil! Let’s do it together!” It's cryptic what accompaniment of development Scalebound was in above-mentioned to its cancellation.
While there were some antecedent fears amid admirers afterwards Microsoft arise the accretion of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer helped annihilate those concerns. In a annual by Microsoft admiral and carnality armchair Brad Smith, the aggregation would annual absolute agreeable exclusivity and absolution affairs for franchises on PlayStation. Additionally, Microsoft "will additionally accomplish them attainable on PlayStation aloft the absolute acceding and into the abutting so that Sony admirers can abide to adore the abecedarian they love." Microsoft additionally fabricated a agnate animadversion in affiliation to Nintendo cheap Lost Ark Gold, admitting the belvedere aberration About-face vs. Xbox/PlayStation is added defined.