Games where the lead platform version was canned, but another was released

[crazyjackcsa]

There are a ton of games like this. It happens when a game is started for one platform and then for whatever reason that platform goes out of style, or the company switches hands.

Offhand:

Grand Theft Auto 3 was supposed to be Dreamcast
Tomb Raider was originally going to be Atari Jaguar
Kameo: Elements of Power and Perfect Dark I think were both supposed to be GameCube (as was Grabbed by the Ghoulies if I'm remembering right)

There are dozens of other games like that. Using the criteria of it needing to change both platforms and manufacturers, look at anything around the end of the life of the Jaguar or Dreamcast, as both of them were lead platforms for a number of things that ended up going elsewhere.

As I understood it the Saturn was actually the Lead Console for Tomb Raider, the Jag version was the port.

There were a tonne of games around the Saturn/PS1 time period that switched like that.

Early development took place on the Saturn and by the time the game came out, the Saturn version was canned.

A Core game with ninjas was like that too.