14 DAY TRIAL // Games industry analyst Michael Pachter has revealed a new set of predictions about Titanfall and confirmed that a sequel, supposedly called Titanfall 2, will debut in 2017 and will no longer be exclusive to Xbox One, as it will most definitely appear on the PS4.
Titanfall is one of the biggest games of the year, as millions of fans are eagerly awaiting the debut of the multiplayer first-person shooter on the PC, Xbox One, and Xbox 360.
Microsoft paid a lot of money for the exclusivity, especially since EA confirmed that Titanfall would not come to the PS4 during its lifetime.
Even so, a sequel is already being rumored and odds are it will no longer be exclusive to Microsoft and the PC.
Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter has offered a new set of predictions about the next Titanfall entry and even speculated that it will appear sometime in 2017, after a three-year development cycle.
"I don’t think that you will see EA go exclusive for Titanfall 2," he revealed in his Pach Attack show on GameTrailers, via PushSquare. "I would guess that this is not a multi-game exclusive deal, it’s just for one – and I think that [the next game] will most definitely come to the PS4. It probably isn’t going to come out for three years, so it’s probably a 2017 release, but it’ll probably be worth the wait."
Pachter also shed some light on why Electronic Arts, the publisher of the new game, decided to sign an exclusivity deal with Microsoft, confirming that it was made under the assumption that the Xbox One would beat the PS4.
"I think that this might be the last exclusive that you see from a third-party for a long, long time," he said. "I think that had [EA] known at the time that the Xbox One was going to be $100 more than the PS4, I don’t think that they would have done it. I think that they believed that Microsoft was going to kick Sony’s butt this cycle."
Pachter also mentioned that former Electronic Arts CEO, John Riccitiello, was a firm believer in Microsoft and pushed for the Titanfall exclusivity.
"He thought that Microsoft was going to eat Sony’s lunch – but we all thought so," Pachter added. "We thought that Xbox 360 had a large loyal install base on multiplayer and we thought that Sony would price about the same as the Xbox One, which I frankly thought would be $400."
As of yet, however, these are just Pachter's speculations, as Respawn isn't even talking about a potential Titanfall sequel.