LEGO Horizon Adventures Release Date Might Have Been Revealed By PlayStation

I love how we live in a timeline where a PlayStation Studios or Xbox Game Studios game can appear in a Nintendo Direct.

I feel like this won't be the last time we'll see Playstation show up in Nintendo partner Directs. Also wouldn't surprise me if we get a bunch of newer Xbox 1st party titles on Switch 2. Crazy times.

@KryptoniteKrunch I think Indiana Jones and DOOM The Dark Ages will come to Switch 2.

But I hope we get older Bethesda games on Switch 1.

@anoyonmus fingers crossed for Fallout 4 for Switch!

I still just don't understand Horizon as a franchise. Like, on paper "robot dinosaurs" makes perfect sense, but in execution? I don't know how we got this far; PlayStation NEVER does spin-offs this far removed from the core gameplay: Ape Escape and Little Big Planet are the only real exceptions. Part of the reason I've learned to live with the fact that those PS2 IP are never coming back is because PlayStation IP are so definitive in their design they can only be built in so much without re-treading. To use a more local example, it's the F-Zero (pre-99) or Mother problem: "we've done everything there is to do with this. Time to move on." Jak into Uncharted, Sly Cooper into inFamous, Twisted Metal into God of War, Siren into Gravity Rush, Little Big Planet into Dreams, and Medievil into Killzone into Horizon. Horizon does not have the brand flexibility Sony insists it does. Aloy is not Link or Mario or even Agent 3. She's too bland to be an interesting lead, but too defined to be an audience surrogate. Her enemies are interesting, but her cast is generic and everything about her world mechanically has been done better elsewhere.

So why does Sony seem so convinced that Aloy has the same brand appeal to kids as Mario or Star Wars to be able to carry a Lego game? Or, perhaps more appropriately and in the vein of Tom Hanks, they are trying to borrow some of that brand appeal from Lego to prop up Aloy.

But of course that circles back to the original question: why does Aloy NEED to be a thing?

@Arkay I mean I don't think that could run on Switch tho.

Maybe Fallout 3 and New Vegas? Maybe we could get some older Wolfenstein games as well?

Or maybe some older Elder Scrolls games. Like Morrowind and Oblivion.

@Zeebor15 the games have sold very well. as for this game coming to the switch the appeal is it is a lego game..

Why is this headline “might have” been revealed by Sony when Sony literally revealed the release date? Why is the title not simply “Sony reveals release date”? What am I missing?

@Zeebor15 maybe some of the devs were playing a lot of lego games at home and tried to make something of a early concept/demo of some sorts, showed it colleagues and here we are.

Lego games are already skins over a (insert IP) with the same gameplay as the previous entry, the lego movies were a succes so maybe there is market for this.

Releasing the same day as Assassins Creed Shadows and Dragon Quest 3 HD, someone's feeling brave.

@BrintaPap That just further adds to the gaslight the kids conspiracy.

@rjejr I think it wasn't intentional, the release date hasn't been officially announced.

@fenlix "I think it wasn't intentional, the release date hasn't been officially announced."

And it STILL hasn't been announced. Starting too wonder if Sony is waiting on a Switch 2 reveal or something. 🤷‍♂️

Sony still revealed it though. Maybe early, maybe wrong, but it was their graphic banner on their own website so, it's revealed. 😎