Word has it that Cryptic Studios is now confirming that Champions Online, which was scheduled to arrive for Xbox 360, has been officially canceled. The studio had their full resources dedicated to bringing Champions Online to the PC platform and making it the best title that it could be.

It is interesting to learn that another high profile MMO title has been canned for the Xbox 360. To this day the only MMO title to ever arrive for the Platform was Final Fantasy XI. It seems when you start digging into this, the common thread seems to be Microsoft and Xbox Live. There have been plenty of MMO titles announced as coming, but none ever seem to actually arrive.

What we don’t really know (and it seems no one can answer) is the hush-hush reason behind why neither the Original Xbox nor the Xbox 360 get any MMO titles. Some speculate that it is an issue having more to do with the architecture of Xbox Live than anything else, but those we have talked with doubt that this is the case. From whispers that we hear, it could have more to do with billing and bandwidth delivery costs than anything else. Still, we have trouble believing that these are not issues that Microsoft couldn’t solve.

In the meantime, from the whispers that we hear Champions Online was the best and closest to arrival of an MMO on the Xbox 360; and with it being canned, it is doubtful that anyone will try to invest the resources to try again till something at Microsoft changes. Question is what at Microsoft needs to change to get MMO titles on the Xbox 360?