According to two former employees Rockstar Games, the colossus behind GTA and Red Dead Redemption would have canceled a sequel project for bully to focus on Red Dead Redemption 2 e GTA VI.
Tez2 and Yan2295, protected from anonymity, revealed that in 2017, work on Bully 2 was already underway, but the imminent release of RDR2 and the consequent substantial amount of work would have led the company to stop production and cancel the game.
To complete the picture is the fact that, according to information released by Tez2 on the official GTA forum, the situation would have also contributed to further aggravating the situation. pre-production of Grand Theft Auto VI, which would begin in 2015. The amount of work for the ambitious project and the complexity of the finalization phase of Red Dead Redemption II would therefore have made Rockstar desist from carrying out the Bully project.
It is worth noting that Yan2295 confirmed what Tez2 said in a comment on Reddit.