Is it Ok to announce a game that is still many years away from release?

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Leynos said:

Zippy6 said:

It's annoying. Wolverine was announced too early, and pretty much the entire Xbox lineup was announced too early.

Over 3 years from announce to release is too much. The Xbox Series event in July 2020 is probably the prime example of terrible.

Fable - Still not out
State of Decay 3 - Still not out
Everwild - Still not out
Avowed - Still not out
Hellblade 2 - Still not out
Forza - released now, but over 3 years later.

In hindsight that event was awful because they've completely failed to deliver in a reasonable time.

Deja Vu. Check out their 2014 E3 how much they announced. Look how much of that lineup was either heavily delayed for years or outright canceled. I forgot about Everwild. Is it vaporware?

As it stands according to various "insiders," the guts of Everwild's game design have been rebooted but still in development.  We're looking at a 2025 release date (or later) at this point.