00:00A recent report has some bad news for fans of the traditional Horizon games. Horizon 3 is
00:04apparently still years away. This is the same report claiming PlayStation is planning a substantial
00:09rework of Horizon Hunter's Gathering, responding to poor playtest feedback for the multiplayer
00:13spin-off by stripping the live service elements in order to make it more of a traditional co-op
00:17game. The majority of developers at Guerrilla Games are still working on Horizon Hunter's
00:21Gathering, according to Jason Schreier at Bloomberg. That leaves a very small team planning
00:25the next single-player Horizon game. Five years separated the launches of Horizon Zero Dawn in
00:292017 and Horizon Forbidden West in 2022, and it's looking like there might be an even longer wait
00:35before Horizon 3 rolls around. I'd even hazard a guess that we won't be buying Horizon 3 on a physical
00:40disc. PlayStation has made a big push into live service games over the past few years,
00:44and during that span we saw the launch and immediate shutdown of Concord, a middling response
00:48for Bungie's Marathon, and the death of Destiny 2. The publisher's biggest recent multiplayer hit is
00:53certainly Helldivers 2, which wasn't even developed internally. It's tough to put that context out
00:57of mind when another multiplayer experiment is dragging resources away from one of PlayStation's
01:02biggest single-player franchises.
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