Disney games boss acknowledges 'a lot of demand' for Knights of the Old Republic remake, giving me my first spark of hope for the project in ages

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Games industry head honchos have all gotten into the same hobby recently: Refusing to say anything about the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake that got revealed at a PlayStation showcase all the way back in September 2021. It just seems that no one at any of the corporations supposedly involved—Sony, Disney, and Embracer Group—wants to talk about it ever since trouble cropped up at the remake's original developer Aspyr.

Earlier this year, Sony started scrubbing KOTOR remake stuff from its social media channels. Just last month, Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors told reporters that he wouldn't comment on the game because "Anything I say to this becomes a headline" (which we then turned into a headline), and now Disney's gaming boss is saying similar stuff. But wait, is that a slight cause for hope I detect?

In a chat with Axios' Stephen Totilo, Disney head of gaming Sean Shoptaw was asked about the status of the KOTOR remake, to which he responded that there's «Not a lot I can say on that point for some hopefully obvious reasons,» but went on to say that KOTOR is «obviously an incredibly popular game, one that we are incredibly proud of and think that there's still a lot of demand for. I'll leave it there.»

Now, let's not get confused. This is rather standard corpo-speak that offers no definitive conclusions either way as to whether the KOTOR remake will ever see the light of day, but the fact Shoptaw is willing to acknowledge «a lot of demand» for it makes me think that it's not completely dead yet. It is, at least, more than Wingefors' blanket refusal to comment on the remake in any capacity at all.

It'd make some sense, too. Videogame newshound Jason Schreier was recently out and about telling people