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Don't Expect Beyond Good & Evil 2 Release Any Time Soon

Beyond Good & Evil 2 is coming in 2021 at the soonest.

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Don't expect to play Beyond Good & Evil 2 anytime soon. Ubisoft confirmed during an earnings call today that the game--which was first announced in 2008--will not be among the five AAA titles that Ubisoft plans to release in the coming financial year that begins in April 2020.

Given that Beyond Good & Evil 2 will not release during the fiscal year that ends March 31, 2021, you can expect the game to launch in April 2021 at the very soonest, according to GI.biz.

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Now Playing: No Beyond Good And Evil 2 This Year - GS News Update

Ubisoft has five AAA games that it will release by March 2021. Three of them are scheduled to release between September and December 2020, with the remaining two set to launch between January and March 2021.

These games include Gods & Monsters, Rainbow Six Quarantine, and Watch Dogs: Legion, as well as two unannounced titles. The next Assassin's Creed is probably a good bet for one of these unannounced titles.

Beyond Good & Evil 2 is a prequel to the 2003 original. It's been in the works for a long time, but there is still no official release date or announced platforms. In an intriguing bit of news, actor Joseph Gordon Levitt's creative company, HitRecord, is partnering with Ubisoft to give players tools to create content.

In other news, Ubisoft recently spoke about how its games needed to be better differentiated, and set about several top-level changes including reshuffling the management team. Those moves included rehiring Maxime Beland, a veteran producer responsible for several of its biggest hits, to make big-picture decisions about its full slate of games.

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I forgot all about Beyond Good & Evil 2.

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We know.

I'm not expecting this game the next 10 years.

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@R4gn4r0k: or ever.

But then, the last guardian eventually happened. Cyberpunk will come out many years after it was announced. So maybe we’re wrong.

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I keep forgetting Beyond Good & Evil 2 is in development. The game just seems like vaporware at this point.

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The Star Citizen of video games.

... Oh, wait.

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No one's expecting it anymore, anyway, just like Half Life 3...

When it does come, however, i hope it fares better than Duke Nukem Forever did, in the same situation...

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It's a next gen game.

It'll come out on PS5 and Series X (gosh I hate that name so much). It'll cripple their sales since the adoption rate won't compensate for the established players base already on PS4 and XBOX One. So their only solution would be a massive downgrade to release it on current gen, but it wouldn't be as good as people expected and even as they wanted it to be. Or you wait until next gen and let time create the players base for it and sales be slow at first but ramping up over a year or two later.

I'd go with next gen and keep the game ambitious as it was from the start. There's no point in downgrading after all that was shown so far. Keep it that way, or if you can't do it that way, cancel it; plain and simple.

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@rekonym: BG&E2 won’t be out for years, I’m sure the next generation will have decent adoption by then.

Another thing to consider, people buying new hardware unfamiliar with the game, are more likely to take a chance and pick it up over someone with hundreds of options on older consoles.

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Good, cancel it already. Let Michel Ancel get back to Rayman. He keeps saying he wants to make Rayman 4 but has too much on his plate with BG&E2.

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The Tech they showed is just too ambitious. Its nice on presentations but even most pc would tank loading that big ass statue and the world shown in the E3 presentation by Ubisoft.

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