Last week, we reported on the fact that the Elden Ring Reddit community was placing its hopes of a long-awaited reveal on tomorrow's Xbox Games Showcase. It made sense to us -- marketing rights are assumed to be wrapped up with the team in green and it's been more than a year since that initial announcement. However, industry insider Jeff Grubb has come out to state that there's basically no chance of Elden Ring actually putting in an appearance on Thursday.
Taking to Twitter, the Venture Beat writer states that "there's a better chance of a Bakugan than Elden Ring on Thursday." This is in reference to Nintendo's recent Treehouse livestream, but it is also basically the nail in the coffin. The next From Software project won't feature during Microsoft's digital event tomorrow so it would be best to kill any anticipation you've built up quick time. It does raise the question, though: what on earth has happened to this game?
Can you answer that question? Speculate in the comments below.
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They probably just need more time before they show it off.
Definitely a PS5 game now. Based on what we know about this game, I have a feeling it's going to be HUGE, which means a long development time. And Martin is a slow worker. So...
I don’t see it happening either. This is more likely going to focus on Xboxlusives than a big multiplat like Elden Ring.
@Ear_wiG Yeah, this has to be a PS5 game at this point.
After the success of bloodborne, it surprises me that Sony hasn’t had more exclusives with FromSoftware, as of yet. Hopefully they have something in the pipeline.
Sony remaking demons souls shows that they know there’s a big interest.
@LiamCroft Unrelated but I remember reading somewhere (a very very long time and I forgot where) that FromSoft was developing a sequel to Bloodborne or something like it exclusively for PS but in "Aztec setting or design", it was a rumor that kinda became dead
My question is, have you heard of this rumor and what happened to it or was it fake?
George R. R. Martin is still writing the intro
@AzlanWake13 I can't say I've heard that rumour before, sorry.
@Gremio108 I imagine it’ll be your classic FromSoft nonsensical fluff except this time ‘Brian, the Defiled One’ will have a subplot about him shagging his sister.
@LiamCroft Thanks, then I am positive the rumor was fake then
I honestly believe this game is in trouble. From Software are never quiet this long about there titles.
Don’t tell me what to do.
@Ear_wiG Martin is only doing the background lore, and if i remember correctly he is long time finish with that.
@AzlanWake13 No sequel, Miyazaki itself recently confirms it's not even on FS plans. Since Sony owns the rights, it has to be a Sony initiative, so... if ever exist BB2 will end up being a 2022/23 project.
Anyways, i don't think BB needs a sequel. A spiritual successor will be better, i like when FS do new IPs maintaining what makes this games so good.
@Makina The false rumor was that it wasn't a sequel but something akin to Bloodborne with focus on fighting mechanic in an Aztec culture setting
but it was false as I suspected, but I am boggled why Sony isn't asking FS to do something again seeing that BB was successful
I wonder when they will show more this year if it doesnt happen tomorrow...maybe at Gamescom or Tokyo Game Show
@AzlanWake13 it’s not nearly as simple as going to a developer and asking them to make a game for you.
There would be so many little details to hammer out such as creative control to name but one of a great many things I’m sure I wouldn’t even consider.
Not to mention the developer needs to have the resources available to make the game without taking away from existing projects.
@AzlanWake13 Well yeah, but remember, last cooperation with FS was as recently as 2018, so... It will probably be yet another cooperation (i think) with FS but not on near future and probably not with BB. Every Sony home console has had at least one FS exclusive game.
Also, not 100% confirmed, but parallel to Elden Ring FS is allegedly working on a new Armored Core game
@Ken_Kaniff I kind of agree. This is taking way longer than usual for FromSoftware. They have two teams and I read in an interview that the one doing Elden Ring started development after the Dark Souls III DLCs, so we're talking about early 2017. So it's about three and a half years already with only a teaser.
Sekiro for example was finished in three and a half years , it was the Bloodborne team and they started working post The Old Hunters expansion in late 2015. The game was released early 2019.
@Makina Seriously, where is this long-rumored new Armored Core game hiding?!?!?! That series was my sh*t growing up, and it's sorely missed. Just imagining what From could do with Armored Core on the PS5 blows my GD mind...
Just what in the hell is going on with this game?
I'm starting to think it's either caught in development hell or its just straight up cancelled
I love from software and George RR Martin works, but combining two of the most snobbish fanbases may be too much for the internet to handle.
Probably just delays because of Corona disruptions. Everything is backed up. And Martin is involved - he probably misses 9 out of 10 meetings 🤦♂️
We just need to wait, at least we know it is coming to PS4.
All these folk concerned about Elden Ring. Meanwhile I'm here like "Y'all heard about WiLD?"
@Stragen8 From what I've read it's not a matter of if but when. Miyazaki isn't apposed to the idea of a sequel in fact it's his favorite game he just needs sony's go ahead.
Loads of things are delayed because of COVID-19. Films, tv shows, games. I wouldn’t get too wound up about it yet.
I would like some Nioh 2 DLC in the meantime though!
@Ear_wiG it's multiplat wdym? From soft just wants to be advertised by Microsoft this time around there's no issue about that lmao
@nessisonett FromSoftware games aren’t nonsensical. You’re just an idiot. George RR Martin is currently the worlds most famous fantasy author. This games story will be amazing.
So if an Xbox insider reports that god of war is coming to PC you lose your minds but if an xbox insider reports elden ring won't be on an xbox event you start praising and celebrating 😂 wut da fak
it would be fair if Elden ring is an xbox exclusive. Because you got to play all the fromsoftware games but they couldn't play bloodborne. So it's the only way you'll be even.
@Pei177373 Mate, I’ve played the Soulsborne games god knows how many times, the story is in no way a focus and is barely coherent at the best of times. George RR Martin is the most famous fantasy author for the sole fact that the TV Show was big, and also exceedingly crap towards the end. Authors like Brandon Sanderson, Patrick Rothfuss and Susanna Clarke have done far fresher content than GRRM in recent years. The genre needs to change as it’s built on tired tropes. As much as I love classic works like Memory, Sorrow and Thorn and the Forgotten Realms novels, the world has moved on and ASOIAF is built on those exact same tropes. It’s like Harry Potter, the novels are popular and the world-building’s great but look a little deeper and the prose is inconsistent and the author really hasn’t thought through where they’re going. If the ASOIAF were shorter and more precise, they’d be great as it suits his writing style of seeding mystery and letting it build. Fantasy needs structure and clear direction, which GRRM as a writer lacks. Just read LOTR and you can get a sense for what good, clear narrative structure is. As you can tell, I’m not exactly a fan of his, despite being very much into fantasy.
@FlashBandit
I think the longer dev time is due to this being their first open world game. It's apparently bigger than anything they've ever done.
Didn’t Sony sign a deal with fromsoft for three exclusive games pre bloodborne?
I think they teased it pretty early. Sekiro was only out for a few months when they dropped the announcement trailer. ER being their largest game to-date, I always expected it to be a 2021 release at the earliest. Trust Miyazaki-san.
@FlashBandit Sekiro was a fairly streamlined action title though. Elden Ring is a massive project, even without the pandemic the development cycle was going to be longer.
@Stragen8 I want a Bloodborne sequel so bad and don’t understand why Sony/From Software hasn’t just done it already.
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