Fans have been waiting a long time for Beyond Good & Evil 2 . Since Ubisoft announced a follow-up to the 2003 cult favorite back in 2008, there’s been a surprising lack of official news aside from a few tidbits in various interviews.

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At a Rayman Legends event in San Francisco this week, IGN spoke with Beyond Good & Evil creator Michel Ancel about what’s going on with the sequel, plus what its shift to next-gen consoles will allow it to do.“I think we were doing something too big for this period,” Ancel told IGN. “Honestly, it was too challenging to put that on [current] consoles. I don’t say the consoles were not good enough, I don’t say the team was not good enough, but you have to scale what you want to do and the console itself. I think now with those new consoles arriving, yes, we want to try again making that game. I would say it’s surprising, as we want it to be. Not just a sequel, but something that really makes all the ideas that we had for the first one possible now with these consoles.”We asked Ancel exactly what the new consoles will allow. Is the sequel simply Beyond Good & Evil 2 but bigger?As for when we might hear about it, Ancel was understandably coy. “I can’t tell you because if I promise something, oh no,” he said with a smile.For now, Ancel is hard at work on Rayman Legends, which will hit stores on August 30th in Europe and September 3rd in North America. For more, watch Ancel play through a new level

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