CEO of Publishing Eric Hirschberg has been revealing a little bit more about their reasoning behind the spate of cancellations announced at the beginning of the year.

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On one of the most disappointing cancellations, True Crime: Hong Kong, Hircshberg confessed that Activision had decided to err on the side of caution due to the amount of money they had already invested in the title measured up against the quality of the it was likely to face.

He began: "The game had been delayed twice; the budget had been increased twice; and it had ballooned to a size where it was going to have to be a pretty incredible success in order to be worth the investment that it was taking to get it done."

"The finished product was not going to be at the top of that genre" Hirschberg continued. "The only reason I'm hesitating isn't due to lack of transparency, it's due to respect for the people who were making it who I think are incredibly talented and really brought their all and I don't want to say anything to disparage their efforts. That's a super-competitive genre with some of the world's best games in it."

True Crime: Hong Kong was cancelled alongside 2011's planned releases in the Guitar and series around the same time Activision also closed in a mass restructuring of the company.

Thanks Joystiq.

By Ewan Aiton