The good news is that this Texas studio of 140 people is not an isolated entity and that in addition to the support of Sony Interactive Entertainment, which invited itself into the project by winning the temporary console exclusivity, Aspyr is supported by Saber Interactive, one of the subsidiaries of the Embracer group to which it has belonged since the beginning of 2021. By re-reading the announcement of this acquisition, we find an interesting passage concerning “a major production with a budget of 70 million dollars“, which we guess without difficulty today that it was referring to the remake of KOTOR.
In the wake of the results published this morning by Embracer, here is what Matthew Karch, the boss of Saber Interactive, could say about this project, according to comments transcribed by the site Push Square.
“Aspyr has gone all out to make this game the best it can be. When we acquired Aspyr, we knew from the start that they would need our help. Saber has enormous expertise in creating these types of products. We’ve done it on Halo – on several Halo products – we’ve done it on other titles that we’ve remastered on other platforms. We’re fully confident the game is going to be fantastic, but it’s a massive product and massive products take a lot of effort and a lot of time to be good. And especially when it comes to an already old – very old – game we practically had to redo it from scratch. I would say that in the next few months you will hear more from us about this.“
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