Ubisoft Announces Beyond Good & Evil 2 Coming to Nintendo Switch, Fans Skeptical

Well here's a rather ambitious announcement. Ubisoft's official Spanish Twitter account just [...]

By Matthew Hayes

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Well here's a rather ambitious announcement. Ubisoft's official Spanish Twitter account just tweeted that Beyond Good & Evil 2 will be coming to pretty much every console, including -- and this is a surprise -- the Nintendo Switch. Check it out:

Typically we would just chalk this up to user error or an uninformed reporter, but this is an official Ubisoft account. It's possible that one of Ubisoft's branches isn't communicating clearly with another, but we doubt that a message this big and this clear would be given the green light without someone up top giving it their approval.

The safe thing here is to not believe anything until we see gameplay. Beyond Good & Evil 2 is basically in "day zero" of development. It's a confirmed game that's in the works, but it's not even far enough into development at this point to say that it's "coming along."

We've seen absolutely no evidence at this point to suggest that Ubisoft can declare with confidence that this game will run on Nintendo's portable console. That's not a dig on the Switch, mind you. I own one, and I think it's an incredible machine. Maybe the developers at Ubisoft just feel that much in their engine and its ability to scale without compromise, but my opinion is that this announcement was a bit premature.

Beyond Good & Evil 2 is a game that has been talked about for years, hinted at for almost as long, and now that it's finally been revealed, long-time fans of the original game are still skeptical that we'll actually see the final product at all. But now it's out in the open. Threads have been made, headlines have been circulated, and torrents of fans poured into the original announcement to express their utter joy that the game will be coming to Nintendo's console.

So what do you think? Does Ubisoft have more ambition than brains, or does the team behind BG&E2 really just know their game and their concept well enough to commit to bringing it to the Switch?

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