Shortly after the Xbox Recreation’s Showcase the opposite day, Obsidian’s upcoming RPG sequel The Outer Worlds 2 additionally bought its personal showcase. It was a robust exhibiting for what’s seeking to be a really enjoyable recreation. Nonetheless, it’s additionally going to be Xbox’s first official $80 following Microsoft’s announcement final month that it was going to start out growing the RRP for a few of its video games.
Following the showcase, pre-orders went stay for The Outer Worlds 2 and retailer listings confirmed the $80/£70 price-tag. Steam, for instance, has pre-orders up, and you can even discover it on each the Xbox and PlayStation shops for a similar value.
There’s additionally a costlier model obtainable for those who fancy shelling out $100.
After all, The Outer Worlds 2 will even launch straight onto Recreation Move, so for those who’re a PC or Xbox gamer that’s the less expensive method of enjoying.
What I discover attention-grabbing is that that is the primary recreation on the Xbox aspect to get the worth hike. When asserting the rise, Microsoft mentioned they might elevate the worth of “some of our new, first-party video games beginning this vacation season to $79.99.”
To me, that implied the large triple-A titles. The Outer Worlds, although, was a comparatively small, double-A type of RPG when it launched, and whereas the sequel does appear larger and doubtless has a chunkier funds, I’m unsure individuals are going to view it because the type of recreation that may get away with an $80 RRP.
It’s not a nasty factor that The Outer Worlds 2 seems to be extra like a double-A title, both. In actual fact, that’s what Obsidian are good at. Each the business as a complete and Recreation Move particularly want extra of those smaller video games that don’t have absurd budgets and hefty price-tags. We’d like video games masking a wider vary of costs, relatively than simply being “indie” or $80.
Now, in equity, we haven’t been given the funds behind The Outer Worlds 2, so this could possibly be Obsidian making an attempt to step into the triple-An area with an even bigger, punchier RPG, however whereas the sport does look very fairly, nothing within the showcase gave me that sort if vibe. No, it seems to be extra polished than the previous couple of Obsidian video games, and I’m super-hyped to play it as a result of I cherished The Outer Worlds, however nonetheless falls into the double-A class from what I’ve seen.
Briefly, The Outer Worlds 2 looks as if a peculiar option to be main Xbox’s cost towards a brand new normal price-point. After they mentioned “some” video games could be growing to $80, I assumed they meant big-hitters just like the upcoming Fable maybe, or the subsequent Gears of Warfare or Halo. However The Outer Worlds was already a reasonably area of interest recreation. Now, Xbox desires to position is sequel because the cannon-fodder on the frontline of the $80 warfare.
