Xenoblade Chronicles 2 re-confirmed for this year by Nintendo

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Hynad said:

GoOnKid said:

We don't know how long it has been in development so far.

Xenoblade Chronicles X came out in Japan on April 29,2015. So that is, almost day for day, two years ago. Monolith Soft isn't that big a studio, so I doubt the game has been in active production for more than roughly two years. Ambitious RPGs take a while to make. If it does indeed come out this year, it will have taken about two and a half year to make. 

I'm not saying they can't make a good game in such a time, I'm just concerned that it may not be enough time for a really ambitious title that's on the scale of the first two games.

Monolith Soft has expanded multiple times since Xenoblade Chronicles released and os now two distinct studios.  Plus there has always been fluidity in Nintendo, with devs of various internal studios moving around and helping where needed.  Wouldn't be shocked if development of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 began quite some time before X released.