From what I read it was over 8 years in development, it should've been well beyond a rework, or maybe even a couple, already.
I'm almost certain that Sony, as any boss, was quite done with the whole fiasco and just said "fuck it, let's go" and just see what happens. It probably wasn't worth the time and effort to keep putting resources into a project going nowhere.
My favorite theory is internal politics meant that the people who knew it was going to fail couldn't prevent the game from going live without extreme cost to themselves. And they would be blamed for it.
Letting the game go live, was probably the least politically expensive thing for them to do. Even though everybody knew the outcome
Which would also explain why they cut their losses so quickly, when most games at least get a year or so of support just to see if they can get off the ground
From what I read it was over 8 years in development, it should've been well beyond a rework, or maybe even a couple, already.
I'm almost certain that Sony, as any boss, was quite done with the whole fiasco and just said "fuck it, let's go" and just see what happens. It probably wasn't worth the time and effort to keep putting resources into a project going nowhere.
My favorite theory is internal politics meant that the people who knew it was going to fail couldn't prevent the game from going live without extreme cost to themselves. And they would be blamed for it.
Letting the game go live, was probably the least politically expensive thing for them to do. Even though everybody knew the outcome
Which would also explain why they cut their losses so quickly, when most games at least get a year or so of support just to see if they can get off the ground