Diablo IV and Overwatch 2 Not Launching Until At Least 2022 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 February 2021 / 1,494 Views
Activision Blizzard CFO and president of emerging businesses Dennis M. Durkin during an earnings call announced Diablo IV and Overwatch 2 will not be launching in 2021.
"We expect Blizzard’s net bookings to grow, given the momentum in World of Warcraft and the other initiatives we have in the business," said Durkin.
"Our outlook does not include Diablo IV or Overwatch 2 launching in 2021. And while Diablo Immortal is progressing well and we anticipate its launch later this year, we don’t have any material contribution from the title in our outlook presently."
Diablo IV and Overwatch 2 were announced at BlizzCon 2019. Neither game has been given a release date or release window, so them not launching until 2022 at the earliest is not a big surprise.
Diablo IV and Overwatch 2 are in development for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Overwatch 2 is also in development for the Nintendo Switch.
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Would've been great if this type of development time was applied to Warcraft 3: Reforged :(
Diablo IV isn't suprising, but I honestly expected Overwatch 2 to have a shorter development since it seems to build so heavily on the first game.
Same, plus Overwatch and it's continued player base hinders on the releases of new characters and we've had 1 in a year. Same yearly events and some extra skins won't keep people playing. I mean I only started again because I found out they remove roll queue.
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