Days Gone 2 Being Canceled Was Bend Studio’s Decision

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The Pitch Never Reached Sony!

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  • Days Gone, despite being an underrated game, performed really well on PlayStation and PC.
  • It was previously revealed that Sony canceled the game’s sequel and instead bet on live service titles. 
  • However, Bend Studio seems to be the real culprit behind the sequel’s cancellation, as the pitch never reached Sony. 

Days Gone is one of the PlayStation’s most underrated video games, but it still made $100M in digital sales. The game performed very well, but unfortunately, it never received a sequel. 

Days Gone 2 was surely in the planning stages, but it was never developed. The director said a part two won’t happen because Sony wasn’t a fan. For all these years, we have been thinking Sony is the real culprit behind the cancellation of the sequel. However, it seems like Bend Studios canceled the game.

Why it matters: Days Gone has a massive following, and to this date, fans want a sequel, but unfortunately, they will never get one. 

Days Gone 2 Cancellation Real Reason
Sony Had Nothing To Do With The Cancellation of Days Gone 2 | Source: David Jaffe

After the game’s director went on a rampage by degrading Astro Bot, PETTHEPEEPO on X highlighted that Bend Studio is the real culprit behind the sequel’s cancellation. The user isn’t just shooting arrows in the air, as they have made some great points. 

Both directors of Days Gone did an interview with David Jaffe Games, which revealed the studio never took the pitch to Sony. The game was stopped internally as it never reached Sony, who was being blamed for the cancellation until now. 

Jaffe mentioned this in the comments section that the boss most likely didn’t feel comfortable pitching the idea to the PlayStation higher-ups. At that time, the game was being seen as a failure.

PlayStation was blamed because Bend Studio assumed a sequel would be scraped if they pitched it to the higher-ups. This is not how it works, as you can’t simply assume things like these. 

Fans have been blaming Sony for this mess-up, but it was the developer all along. The demand for Days Gone 2 is so high that a petition to demand a sequel reached 210k signatures this year. 

This is a failure on the part of Bend Studio, and Sony shouldn’t be blamed for making assumptions that it would have rejected the pitch. Unfortunately, due to this mess up, fans are unlikely to get the sequel they have been waiting for a long time.

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