"Star Wars 1313" is now at the mercy of Disney, as the entertainment monster has just purchased Lucas Film for $4 billion, but will this affect the game's development and whether or not it appears on next-generation consoles?
According to a report from IGN on Tuesday, this purchase has apparently placed a cloud of doubt around the project for no reason other than the fact that Disney is really looking to focus on developing titles for mobile and social platforms.
No telling about those other games. Although Star Wars 1313 is the only example to really enjoy public broadcast, LucasArts has supposedly been revving up internal development over the last couple of years. Other projects they've been working on are that Battlefront-looking shooter for Xbox Live Arcade as well as some unannounced flight sim and potentially a couple of others. (Peruse the company job site and choose your own speculation in a game I'm fond of calling, Choose Your Own Speculation.)
While history should certainly keep anyone from ruling out the possibility of the reset button being smacked on in-house development (again), neither can we assume that Disney wouldn't allow LucasArts to operate in a similar fashion to how they are today. That's why there's little reason to fear a "hostile takeover" scenario; certainly, there's no more hostile an environment for interesting ideas than the one that Lucasfilm has imposed itself on its game subsidiary for the past several years. I'll give the new foster parents a chance to rise to the ambition of doing worse instead of assuming it. The safest assumption, of course, is that little will change whatsoever.
Source: Examiner.com
valkian
...but Lucasfilm will remain existing and operating as it has for the near future.
...so there's still a chance it'll get cancelled yet then! :P
daltysmilth
well they would never cancel a STAR WARS game this far into development.
Gov. Phatt
Yes, folks, it appears as though the remnant of one of the greatest and most prolific developers of quality interactive entertainment will be reduced to banging out .99 cent apps like "Where's My Vader" and "Angry Wookies." The legacy of innovative and beloved adventure games, combat sims and first person shooters appear to interest Disney about as much as making Howard the Duck 2 with all their newly acquired Lucasfilm properties.
Cheap Star wars apps are plentiful already. You can't blame Disney for those/