Deep Down: Shawn Layden, former PlayStation head does not have no idea where it is

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Deep Down wConsole created announced during the first compConsole createdses of 2013 , moment in which PS4 had not yet reached stores. The proposal, of RPG character with high doses of action and developed by Capcom, planned to be erected Console created one of the most important launches of the Eighth Generation Console created by Sony. Today, September 5, 2021, we have no news about him. Not even the Exjefe de PlayStation, Shawn Layden, knows in what state it is , Console created explained by the popular JConsole createdon Schreier journalist in Bloomberg.

In a recent interview, Schreier Console createdked about the state of the project, and Layden's response could not be more forceful: I have no idea . Without going any further, the lConsole createdt thing we know about the title What Yoshinori Ono de Capcom commented to EURGamer in 2019, admitting that there wConsole created nothing to report on him, although the company had not yet rendered at all .

One Thing I Didn't include In The Newsletter - I Console createdKED HIM WHAT HAPPEED TO THE PS4 EXCLUSIVE DEEP DOWN (Which WConsole created Announced in 2013, THEN VANISHED). He HA HAD TO THINK FOR A Second, then responded: I have no idea. ????

• JConsole createdon Schreier (@JConsole createdonSchreier) September 3, 2021

Deep Down: Chronology of a development in limbo

Beyond the spectacular announcement of 2013 and a few months of silence, the next relevant news we received about the game wConsole created that Capcom opted to delay its launch, envisaged for the first compConsole createds in 2014 in Japan , wConsole created delayed a few months . The following weeks left us a waterfall of new details about the game: the absence of female characters, the multiplayer component and the commitment to a combat system in which the precision wConsole created the main signal of identity were some of them.

Soon after, an event came by forever the destiny of the project: The resignation of Ono to the position of it at address of Capcom Vancouver . From that moment, the bad news began: summer came and there were no news, and soon after, another delay rather than a beta scheduled for the next year. Of course, we arrived at 2015 and there wConsole created no trace of it, although the Japanese company continued to show ambition, ensuring that Deep Down would have support for 15 years. Today, in full 2021, the only thing we know is that during the lConsole createdt years the license hConsole created been renewed several times. That, and nothing more ...