Beyond Good and Evil 2 designer reveals that the long delay was mostly caused by technical issues that prevented the devs from finishing the game sooner.
Wccftech interviewed Nathan Yu from Inworld AI to discuss the dynamic NPC tech's applications to games as well as potential issues like costs.
Saad from eXputer: "After Arkane Austin & Tango were shutdown, Xbox President Sarah Bond spoke with Bloomberg in what I believe to be utter corporate fakery."
im not really surprised by that, shes always been more a "let me talk about something else than what u want to know" kinda gal
Yea, it was and it’s insulting that they think we’re dumb enough to fall for this. Look, the truth was you took a gamble on these studios and while they released some games to critical praise and great reception they just aren’t bringing in a ROI. Be transparent, you’re not a politician.
Just tell everyone you spend money on projects big and small and when money isn’t being made you go over the potential of revenue a studio can bring in vs those that can’t and make the hard decision to chop them.
She says this whole thing about “success” doesn’t fit one meaning for each studio. Well yea, a small budget production isn’t going to expect to sell the same as a large budget production.
One thing I wish they did though was let Tango be an independent studio.
disheartening to see no regard for the human cost of business anymore
the bad decisions and judgements of these CEOs severely impact the frontliners
these fake responses are just salt on wounds
imagine havin the audacity to say "we need more games like hifi rush" right after closing the studio that made it lol
followin up with this show of "deflecting every question" was in poor taste
Firaxis veteran Jake Solomon hasn't seen mass layoffs like this in his whole 25-year career.
Alot’s changed in 25 years. We have games with $300 mill budgets, people not interested in games other than Fortnite and Minecraft, the older generation of gamers giving up the hobby or dying off, a period of super bad inflation where the industry decided to hike up prices on games, Gamepass harming game sales, GaaS games being pushed left and right with obnoxious monetization and worse looking/playing (Suicide Squad vs Arkham Knight).
The industry is just shite right now. Games ain’t selling, games cost massive amounts, businesses can’t bleed money and this is what happens. Part of it is on them and part of it is on consumers not buying.
"Technical issues" huh. Now there's a funny way of saying "board of executives."
I'm much more interested in their explanation as to why a game confirmed to be in development in 2008 is now only in "pre-development" eight sodding years later.
Sure it was..... Sure....
But somehow, UbiSoft was able to iron out issues for other teams by releasing Assassin's Creed games, Rayman games, Watchdog games, ghost recon games, rainbow six games, etc. Somehow, just an overflow of them while we waited and waited for BG&E2 that never came. Nothing to do with sales compared to other franchises like splinter cell? Right.
The first game came out 13 years ago this November. I passed the game on to someone who was 5 and he loved it and played it multiple times. He is now going to be 18 and he now plays The Division. Another UbiSoft game that seems to have overcome technical issues to be released.
Don't believe that for a minute. I still want the game but d@mn!
So sad.
Technical Issues? I don't think that has stopped Ubisoft before from releasing a game. And they still hold all rights over Beyond Good and Evil so they will decide anything. It's pretty much Ubisoft's Final Fantasy VII, except a sequel rather a remake. I don't believe anything from Ubisoft or the devs until we get some HARD conclusive confirmation with gameplay. Why hype a game that doesn't exist in the first place?
Looking forward to the day it DOES release, but until then. Ubisoft. Please shut up about it. Either make it or don't. Don't tease fans >_>
Technical Issues? Pfft, yeah right.
What really happened is that Ubisoft lost faith in the game, and Nintendo stepped in to fund it, securing it as an NX exclusive.