I would love for this to be true. But for the time being I wont put much stock in to this.. because I am pretty much done with being disapointed =)

End of January Ancel and Tim Shafer were talking about BG&E2. Schafer did a quick name drop of Miyamoto assuring Ancel that BG&E2 would be 'good enough for Miyamoto'.

http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/30/beyond-good-and-evil-2/

Something tells me Ancel shared it off-the-record with Shafer that BG&E2 was going NXclusive. And Tim then tipped his hand to the rest of us.

This is really suspicious, I don't know the context, but naming Miyamoto out of nowhere... 

Especially when it's supposed to be Ubisoft pulling the strings.

Ubi may not have thought the project was going somewhere but let it go on in development hell, just so they wouldn't lose Ancel. So when Ninty walks in to green light it and gives Ancel total creative freedom for it - everyone walks away happy.

They were supposed to fund the publishing of Rayman Legends in Japan and yes of course it was considered as exclusive before Wii U flop

i agree with you, my friend :)

Though I'm not the biggest Ubisoft supporter (hell, I hate them, they're rubbish), Beyond Good & Evil is the only great title they have, imo. With the first Prince of Persia. So I think the money is well invested, at least, quality-wise. And, to the second part, if Nintendo has to waste (more than spend) money in Ubisoft games... I hope they don't do that. I mean, if Ubisoft wants their games on the NX, cool, but don't ask Nintendo to pay for them. 

EDIT: I forgot about Rayman games. They're cool.

Purely based on the aesthetics of the last BG2 teaser, it looks absolutely nothing like any of Nintendo's most popular games. I'm not actually talking about the original at all. I am speaking on the sequel in isolation, because it looks much more mature and gritty than the original, not unlike what Square did to Tomb Raider after the reboot.

So yeah, I do think that BG2 would change a lot in the big picture and yes, I do think that it will, if commercially successful, entice third parties to make games on their own. Not by itself, but along side other exclusive content of its ilk.

I think it is a big game, and I don't think the sales of the last game will indicate the sales of this one. Plenty of franchises come into their own upon new iterations, and since they are likely to drop the "2" just for marketing purposes they can make this off to be a new game.

This game looks much different, much less Zelda-Clone, and much more gritty than the original, female representation is in right now, and nothing screams today's story driven market like a little 1984 and Big Brother.

There's no reason this won't be a big game. Especially not the sales of a game from 13 years ago. This may as well be a reboot.

Of all the rumors of what and how and why's of the nx, this is the first to really peak my interest. Would be a good first step to securing me as a customer.

Tho I'm very skeptical.