shikamaru317 said:
It's a distinct possibility, but I'm not sure if they have enough time to overhaul it, they only announced the overhaul in February. Which would give it less than a year before a Holiday 2020 re-release. Square's Final Fantasy 14 took them 3 years to overhaul after it's initial release, and while I doubt that EA would be willing to spend 3 years overhauling Anthem, I feel like they probably need more than 9 months to pull it off. But it would make sense from a business perspective, as EA doesn't seem to have a big game for this Holiday. Next Battlefield is 2021, Dragon Age 4 has only had a year and a half of development since it was rebooted so it is probably 2021 or early 2022, Jedi Fallen Order 2 is 2022, there is no Star Wars Battlefront 3 in development, Titanfall seems to be dead. If EA wants something besides sports titles for the next gen launch, it pretty much has to be a revamped Anthem. |
I know it hasn't been all that long since they officially announced, but I recall reading an article from Schreier quite a bit earlier, talking about them working on an overhaul. I reckon they'll have had a little over a year or so by the time it would relaunch. FF14 isn't really the best comparison either, as we're not talking about a full scale MMO here, nor is it likely that EA would ever commit to such a complete and drastic redesign. Plus, as you said, they don't have much in the way of feasible projects to showcase themselves this year to start the new console generation - outside of their baby step sports franchises - so unless they wanna basically look absent, they gotta throw something out there.
Getting an overhauled Anthem in on the ground floor of next gen consoles also has a high potential upside, if you've actually done a halfway decent job this time.
