Quote Originally Posted by Edmond Dantes View Post
I think you forgot to finish this line. What happened with Streets of Rage 4?
Oh, they had a contract for it, rolled out their pre-order release, only to find out that the dev had also signed on with someone else to publish it, which dropped a week later, was cheaper (I think), came with the music had an arguably better looking cover and was on Amazon/GameStop and the like. It had a HUGE backlash from folks who bought from LR (none of which was deserved), especially because these other copies were basically already printed and it was done, vs LR's pre-order window and production time afterwords it releasing 3+ months later.

Their contracts state publishing rights revert back to the title holder after they do the release drop and the production run is done, but at no point has it ever been an immediate secondary release before.