Eight Days

[Bastart]

Looks promising, does anyone exactly know why it's either cancelled or on a hold?

[Deividas]

Looks pretty neat to me. Chances are the studio ran out of money or something like that, that's my guess. And did the guy really jump off the vault with the chopper on to a car, do absolutely nothing on top of that car but hand on and then just jump back on? what the hell was the point of that?

[Spiderpig24]

It started out as just a tech demo, really, but ended up being a cancelled game.

On 4 June 2008 Sony Computer Entertainment announced that Eight Days, along with The Getaway, had been cancelled. Sony released a statement on the cancellation-"This decision was made following an internal review of all games and it was deemed that with the incredibly strong list of exclusive first party titles coming up both this year and in the near future, resource should be reallocated to enhance those projects closer to completion". Two weeks after the cancellation of Eight Days, President of Sony Computer Entertainment, Shuhei Yoshida, stated that the lack of an online mode in Eight Days was "part of the consideration" to cancel the game. He also stated that the cancellation of Eight Days was not because it was not failing in production, but because Sony is increasingly moving towards online-supported games, and Eight Days did not fit that overall strategy. However, on October 2009, it was confirmed that the game hasn't been cancelled, but merely put 'on hold'.

[Bastart]

It started out as just a tech demo, really, but ended up being a cancelled game.

That's too bad it had a kind of mix between Max Payne/Uncharted/GTA/Sleeping Dogs/The Getaway

On 4 June 2008 Sony Computer Entertainment announced that Eight Days, along with The Getaway, had been cancelled. Sony released a statement on the cancellation-"This decision was made following an internal review of all games and it was deemed that with the incredibly strong list of exclusive first party titles coming up both this year and in the near future, resource should be reallocated to enhance those projects closer to completion". Two weeks after the cancellation of Eight Days, President of Sony Computer Entertainment, Shuhei Yoshida, stated that the lack of an online mode in Eight Days was "part of the consideration" to cancel the game. He also stated that the cancellation of Eight Days was not because it was not failing in production, but because Sony is increasingly moving towards online-supported games, and Eight Days did not fit that overall strategy. However, on October 2009, it was confirmed that the game hasn't been cancelled, but merely put 'on hold'.

to bad that statement was on October 2009....

[Throavium]

The game probably would not have sold well given the change, due to an overall visually bland looking game. On that same token it's placed in a more believable and realistic setting with solid game mechanics. Even though the game was canceled this can be used as a foundation for something bigger.