Confirmed: Activision Cancels True Crime Hong Kong And Discontinues Both Guitar Hero And DJ Hero Franchises

Activision has announced that it has canned development on True Crime: Hong Kong as well as discontinued its Guitar Hero/DJ Hero business unit.

Speaking in it’s financial report, the publisher confirmed the closure of its Guitar Hero business unit and the cancellation of this year’s in-development Guitar Hero game.

“We simply cannot make these games profitable given the current market, the publisher said.

True Crime: Hong Kong was canceled because it was “just not good enough” to compete in the open world genre. Most of all, they didn’t expect it to generate enough profit and stopped development.

Its developer United Front Games said in a statement on its website, that it was “sorry” it did not finish the project,

“We are sorry we did not get a chance to complete this project with Acitivision, but we understand why,”

“We are both committed to doing quality games and nothing less. Maybe we will have a chance to work together in the future, but in the meantime we are setting our creative sites on a different horizon.”

Furthermore, Activision COO Thomas Tippl has just confirmed in the company’s financial call that no Tony Hawk games will be released in 2011 as well as other music titles from the company, meaning no DJ Hero sequel this year.

These decisions are based “on the desire to focus on the greatest opportunities that the company currently has to create the world’s best interactive entertainment experiences.”

Via VG247