Xenoblade Chronicles 2 re-confirmed for this year by Nintendo

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Slarvax said:

XC 2 looks to be made with the same XCX engine, while textures and character models look like the original XC. It's also Monolith's second HD game, so their more familiar with the difficulties behind it.

But, I expect it to be delayed to Q1. For the same reason DKC: TF got delayed to Q1. Release schedule.

Personally I think the best time to release this game is, assuming the development until then is complete, October.By then, the Switch will have a decent install base(for the ammount of time it has been released, and Im assuming here the number will be around 7 to 8 millions), it wont be that close to Mario so that it dosent get overshadowed by it, and is close enough to the holidays to get a good boost due to it being still fresh on gamers minds(it would be a better boost than holidays 2018, relatively speaking, than it would have if it released Q1 2018).