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Suppose we will have to wait longer in orbit.
What’s going on with the unreliable Kerbal Space Program 2? It has been delayed again.
Originally, it expires in 2020, which was later adjusted to “fiscal 2021” – sometime between April 2020 and March 2021. Then, due to coronavirus, it became fall 2021.
Now, just six months later, it has become “fiscal year 2023”, sometime between April 2022 and March 2023.
Consider the original projection and the latest date and there is a discrepancy of two years, possibly three, between them. It suggests that a significant amount of additional work has had to be done, possibly even rework. What gives?
Take-Two, who owns Kerbal Space Program 2’s Private Division publisher, declined to provide further details on the delay. All he said during an overnight earnings call was: “Private Division’s new development studio, Intercept Games, is still hard at work on Kerbal Space Program 2, which is now planned for release during fiscal 2023.” This was President Karl Slatoff, Seeking Alpha transcript.
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Remember, Kerbal Space Program 2 It is not developed by the same team that made Kerbal Space Program 1. That was a developer called Squad. But Squad sold the intellectual property to Take-Two in 2017. Then, in 2019, Take-Two / Private Division announced a sequel, to be developed by Planetary Annihilation developer Star Theory. Are you up to date so far?
This is where it gets a bit shaky. Earlier this year, Take-Two / Private Division announced that it had opened a new studio to work on Kerbal Space Program 2, and then, in May, it announced that it was called Intercept Games.
What happened to Star Theory? Bloomberg reported that it had been dismissed in a rather sneaky way. Take-Two / Private Division apparently canceled the project on Star Theory while simultaneously poaching staff, via LinkedIn, to continue working on the game internally at Intercept Games. The resulting canceled contract would lead to the closure of Star Theory.
What to bring.
In the meantime, however, Kerbal Space Program 1, a sandbox game about building your own rockets, and one that we rate as essential in our review, continues to get updated. This summer, it partnered with the European Space Agency to deliver an ESA-themed game update.
Kerbal Space Program 2 is in development for unspecified PC and consoles (which I assume means only the new ones given the dates we are talking about now).
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