It all started on Friday November 17 when Jeff Grubb publicly stated that KOTOR Remake is nothing more than a distant memory. “No one is working on it right now.”, he asserted. “Person. No studio, no employee working on it. I dug around to find out, to confirm 100% that no one works there.“Usually well informed (he notably predicted the postponement of Suicide Squad to 2024), Grubb was pessimistic about the possible release of KOTOR Remake since a few months.
The painful awakening of the Force
However, Jeff Grubb is not the only one to have ears in the industry, and the best in this part remains Jason Schreier. The Bloomberg journalist took to Twitter to clarify the situation. “It’s impossible to say if KOTOR Remake will eventually be released, but yes, two people at Saber inform me that they are still working on it, despite recent rumors.“As communicated last year, KOTOR Remake came under Saber’s control, in an unspecified sub-branch, after Aspyr had been dispossessed of the beast.
Jason Schreier also discussed the reasons for this unexpected change of developers. “It’s not just the demo [d’Aspyr] was horribly lame. The big problem was that the stakeholders were not aligned on the scale of the project and the deadlines to be met.“There you go, this internal waltz is only the fruit of a little organizational micmac. From there to affirm that KOTOR Remake will be great and that it will end up being published in a decent state… we’ll wait and see in detail.
For the record, the CEO of Embracer – who manages the affair in his capacity as parent company – now refuses to comment on the progress of the project, even in the financial statements. “Every time I talk about it it becomes a headline“, he justified himself. You can imagine that several media outlets did not hesitate to headline this specific quote.