LiveWii : "As we were looking for some news from Nibris and its ambitious Sadness - considered as a vaporware -, we contacted FOG Studios, the agency for interactive rights who represents the developpers. And when we asked if the game still exists, here is a quote of what Ed Dille, FOG's Chairman & CEO, said to us :
"The game exists, but it is not moving forward absent a publisher, so there is nothing to discuss that would be new. If my client finds a publisher, a press release will be made at an appropriate time by that publisher. Until then, we appreciate your interest but there is nothing to report."
Alright, so Nibris needs to find funds and a publisher ? It seems that Winter was in that case and that an online petition had worked to make it better for this game. Should that be a solution ? Or do we just consider Sadness as past ? The time will say it to us..."
8CN: Games get canceled all the time, but rarely do we ever hear very much about them. Usually, they're canned well before the public is aware of their existence, with the studios quietly pushing the project under the rug (or recycling the work into new games entirely). These games however, failed pretty spectacularly.
Prey 2 sure looked interesting. The first one gave me motion sickness with the sudden inversions.
The first one's concept sounds amazing! I hope they, or someone gets back to it. The outlook should be different now with the new gen consoles...
CCC Says: "Sadness has been resurrected. Remember it? You're forgiven if you don't. It was originally Wii Vaporware. NIBRIS was going to make it for the Wii way, way back when the console was first announced in 2006, but it didn't happen. Instead, it officially drifted away into ephemeral vaporware in 2010. It came back to our attention on May 20, 2014, when HullBreach and Cthulhi said they wanted to revive the Sadness IP as a 2D RPG with puzzle elements in a NintendoLife interview. Except a day later, on May 21, it was revealed that there are four studios trying to call dibs on Sadness and that HullBreach and Cthulhi don't have the rights or access to the concept."
The Sadness IP is in the hands of a consortium with 4 studios currently fighting for the bid, and that while we at HullBreach and Cthulhi would like to make a competing bid and secure rights to Sadness, unfortunately we cannot at this time. Sorry to fans for any inconvenience.
So 4 studios out of nowhere are now fighting over this game that has never gotten attention, nor any info? It just seems like they came to claim it from the hype the internet had because people heard it's returning. Maybe because of these four studios fighting over the game, maybe eventually someone will actually make the dang thing.
i gave up on this game a long time ago everyone should just do the same already
the title picture looks like Gackt = =
sega
"considered as a vaporware -, we contacted FOG Studios"
Reading this part made me laugh.
Yeah, give up on this game. They keep making empty promises.