A Hasbro rep now says comments about Activision losing a bunch of old Transformers games 'were made in error.'
"When a company eats a company that eats a company things get lost, and that’s very frustrating."Hasbro's flying high at the moment, and is looking to get serious about Transformers and videogames. There have been multiple Transformers games in the past, of course, but these were somewhat isolated licensed titles rather than a part of any grander strategy.
"Sadly, apparently Activision’s not sure what hard drives they’re on in their building," said the spokesperson."When a company eats a company that eats a company things get lost, and that’s very frustrating. Hope is that now that the deal is moving forward with Microsoft andthat they’ll go through all of the archives and every hard drive to find it all, because it’s an easy Game Pass add. We want those games back up for people to have a chance to play.
"[We] had to load up the games on older platforms because there were some deco details we couldn’t find: we have the CAD [3D model], but it’s not colored," said the spokesperson."So we had to find some of the character details within the games themselves."