Steelbook, too.
I’m not going to to act like it’s a good thing, but Forspoken kind of bombed. And, to be fair, I kind of called it.
And finally, we get to Forspoken. I think critics and the usual suspects will praise it for its looks, and the people that will blindly buy anything with “Square Enix” on the cover will get it. I doubt it will sell all that well in Japan. It’s probably the big money project on the slate, and its release has been pushed back again to January 2023. I won’t be surprised if it sells well, but “not well enough”; I also won’t be surprised if it flops, because that’s the impression I got from it. Also won’t be surprised if they announce a sequel despite that; why could be anyone’s guess.
Literally Me, Last Year
Well, that has passed. And, thanks to Guru Larry, it seems we now know where all those unsold Collector’s Edition Steelbooks of Forspoken are headed: the dump.
Naturally, with Larry drawing the parallel with the infamous Atari 2600 E.T., others joined in on that note. I however, would note that E.T. was made in a matter of months, whereas Forspoken took roughly two years from announcement and millions of dollars in development resources.
Still seems like a bit of a waste. Then again, we are talking about a game that effectively killed the subsidiary studio that made it. More importantly, the steelbooks are apparently empty, to boot. So even if you managed to fish one out that wasn’t, say, covered in garbage water, you wouldn’t be getting a free game out of it.
Nonetheless, embarrassing, shameful.
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