| coolbeans said: I don't follow the assumption of OW2 releasing before Clockwork Revolution tbh. We've actually seen a scripted in-game/gameplay trailer of Clockwork whereas the CGI OW2 trailer literally made jokes about unfinished assets or whether we'd actually see x creature. |
Well, Outer Worlds 2 did actually enter development first, it was in development months before the first game even released in November 2019, began development July 2019 as I recall based on LinkedIn profiles at the time. Meanwhile a whole year later, in September 2020, inXile suggested that Clockwork Revolution had only recently entered development. On the other hand, while Outer Worlds 2 did enter development first, it wouldn't have entered full development until after the 2nd Outer Worlds 1 DLC shipped in March 2021, which was just 3 months before that CGI reveal trailer. But all preproduction work should have been completed in the 1.75 years between development start in July 2019 and March 2021, and maybe even some actual in-engine asset work. Outer Worlds 2 possibly is tracking behind Clockwork Revolution due to that later full production start, but we also don't know the scope of both games properly, supposedly Obsidian wanted to keep Outer Worlds AA, whereas Clockwork Revolution was stated to be AAA multiple times in job listings at inXile, and AA games are faster to build than AAA games are. It's also worth noting that Obsidian said in a post-show interview after the 2021 reveal trailer that Outer Worlds 2 would be releasing sooner than some might expect it to release based on the jokes in the trailer.
I think it's a safe bet that both games will be 2025 releases at this point, I would be shocked if either made 2024. I can't see Obsidian shipping both of their RPG's in the same year, while inXile only started on Clockwork Revolution in mid 2020, and they have been very slow to expand after opening their larger studio in earyk 2021, with just 121 employees as of now 2.5 years after the larger studio opened, so I just don't see how they can build a new IP AAA like Clockwork Revolution in less than 4.5 years with such a small AAA dev team, and more than 4.5 years pushes it into 2025. Question will be which of the two will release earlier in 2025.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 13 June 2023
