We’re only one week away from Overwatch 2‘s launch – a day many thought would never come. Plenty is changing in the sequel, and Blizzard is open to crossovers with other franchises.
During an interview with Game Informer, Overwatch VP Jon Spector spoke about how the development team is exploring the idea of cross-media events.
“We’ve seen some really fun examples out there of games working with other brands or other games,” Spector said. “I’m a big anime nerd myself. I think it’s super cool when I see Naruto appear in Fortnite. I don’t even play Fortnite, but that’s awesome. And as we look at the Overwatch 2 space, those are things that we’re interested in exploring. If and when we do that, one of our key values is to do it in a way that feels like a great fit for the Overwatch franchise.”
Fortnite is pretty infamous at this point for crossing over with every brand in the known universe. From Dragon Ball Z to Indiana Jones – virtually every franchise you can think of has appeared in Epic’s battle royale. So it’s no surprise that Blizzard might look to replicate that success.
“So we’ve been more focused on those collaborations as the stuff we might be interested in doing. And less on the ads-in-our-game type stuff,” Spector continues.
Whether this comes to fruition is anybody’s guess. If we keep the anime theme going, I’m hoping for a collaboration with Fullmetal Alchemist just so Edward Elric can blitz Roadhog.
Overwatch 2 enters early access Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022, for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
