A forgotten PS4 game was canceled three years after its announcement, leaving some PlayStation fans disappointed in the process. For PlayStation, 2021 is all about the PS5, but right now there are much more active PS4 players than PS5 players, and as a result, the PS4 will be getting games this year, next year, and beyond. In fact, many of Sony’s big upcoming exclusives are – like Horizon Forbidden West – will be multi-generation releases.
The PS4 is still getting games and will continue to get a lot of great games for at least a few more years. One game it won’t get, however Project One Room, which was announced in 2017 as a tribute to Roomania # 203, a cult classic released in 2000 via the Sega Dreamcast.
After years of silence that has left many forgetting the game, the producer, Masaru Oochi, has officially confirmed the concerns of many. In other words, the game is canned.
According to Oochi, the game soon ran into development problems that actually stopped the project completely. A year later, Oochi left FuRyu in an attempt to resume development of the game. After pitching the project to numerous companies, the game’s development finally resumed, but as a new project. Over the next 18 months, development continued, but during this period Oochi’s savings were exhausted, and then the pandemic struck, which turned out to be more or less the nail in the coffin, although there were other contributors to the cancellation as well of the game, including Oochi’s dissolution of the belief that the game would resonate with modern audiences.
Project One Room was in development for the PS4, and as far as we know only the PS4. That said, not only has it been canceled, but it looks like there’s no path to the project’s revival.
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