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curl-6 on 07 November 2020
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Slownenberg said:
curl-6 said:
UnderwaterFunktown said:
curl-6 said:

I don't expect we'll be seeing BOTW2 anytime soon. Before COVID I would've said 2021 but now I'm thinking it's more likely 2022.

Well expectations vary. I feel pretty confident it will release next year. And I think a full reveal with more info on the game isn't too far off.

I wish I had your confidence. I want it so desperately badly. But the Zelda team always seems to take forever to make a new entry, and with COVID fucking everything up projects are getting delayed left and right, and Zelda didn't even have a release window or anything beyond a cinematic teaser even before the pandemic. If it's coming in 2021 I'd be overjoyed, but it's not what I expect.

Really? Huh. I thought it was a realistic possibility to release this holiday season. I feel like they'd have had to run into major problems in development for it to not release next year (like Metroid Prime 4 level of problems!). I'd peg it for a spring launch, or launches with the new Switch model whenever that comes out, maybe that's more like Summer. I'd be pretty surprised if it's as late as a holiday '21 launch, maybe it will be that late only because of Covid, but even with Covid I'd be surprised if it launches that late.

They're using the same map world, though no doubt with plenty of changes to make it feel new, and can reuse lots of assets obviously, and its a direct sequel so a lot of the mechanics are going to be the same or very simliar, all that will save a TON of time in development of the game. And they've been working on it for probably around 3 years at this point. A year from now that'd be about 4 years, which should be PLENTY of time given the fact that they can reuse a significant amount of the original. If they were starting a completely new game from scratch 2022 would make more sense, but given what we know about how much they are reusing I can't imagine how it wouldn't come out next year.

You'd think 4 years would be plenty, but then BOTW was supposed to come out in 2015, Skyward Sword in 2010, Twilight Princess in 2005, and Ocarina of Time in 1997. And none of them ran up against the worst pandemic in a century.

But trust me, nothing would make me happier than for BOTW2 to come out as soon as possible.