I am forever amused that the announcement was no more than a hail mary to stave off a hostile takeover from Vivendi. No video game takes this long to make.
That E3 conference ending with the "We're just game developers trying to make good games!" from the company that was just a few years away from planning to put NFTs in their games lol.
Back around the time of the 2017 re-announcement I got some info from someone at Ubi in the south of France. They said that apparently the ‘core’ BGE2 team was utterly tiny & it had barely any dedicated resources. Ubi would constantly take resource to work on Assasins Creed & other projects.
Are you referring to the reveal back in 2008? Or the newer reveal later on, I loved BGE when I was a kid, it was one of the reasons I bought a PS3 seeing the old reveal, seems laughable now.