curl-6 said:
Wouldn't work have started in 2017 once BOTW wrapped? If it comes out holiday 2021, that'd be 4.5 years between the release of the two games. True, it's not Duke Nukem Forever, but with the engine and a lot of the assets done and reusable, I feel like that's a fairly long turnaround. Iterative AAA sequels have often followed 2 or 3 years behind their predecessors. |
You need to factor in the type of game itself BOTW2 may reuse some assets but being a Zelda game it'll likely have a new concept added and the whole game has to be balanced and tested to accommodate the concept which when you factor in the complexity in BOTW's freedom and that it's applied to a large open world with many intricacies it wouldn't be like most standard follow ups.
This is before we get to what ever changes they make to the game world itself what new features they're going add alongside any new concept as they had far to many ideas that couldn't go into the original that's going into this game which again it all has to be tested with all the other intricacies and what limit they decide to push further with the game being Switch only this time round.
