Despite originally being pegged for October, the PlayStation 4 will be forced to wait until 2nd June for the Dark Knight to spring into action. Warner Bros has revealed that Batman: Arkham Knight will deploy on the aforementioned date on Sony’s next-gen super machine, occupying that increasingly popular summer slot just prior to E3.
In addition, there’ll be two collector’s editions available at launch. The bog standard Limited Edition will come with a steelbook case, an 80-page art book, a comic book, three character skins based on The New 52, and an “imposing statue” of the titular superhero. Meanwhile, the more expensive Batmobile Edition will include all of the above minus the statue, with a replica of Bruce Wayne’s favourite sports car in its place.
It is a relatively big delay, but considering the title never looked like hitting its 2014 release date, we’re not surprised to see it pushed back so far. Regardless, with the likes of Bloodborne and The Witcher III: Wild Hunt due out early next year, we’re going to need those extra months to give our bank balance time to recover.
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Great because February was getting stuffy anyways
Great less of a reason to get a PS4 = me saving more money when I do.
Very disappointing indeed. 8 months is a long delay. But at least the game will be in top form by june.
A little further than February, but its more spread out this way.
Well this will give me time to save up for it at least.
I'm looking forward to this but I'm more than happy with the delay considering how many other great games are coming out soon and the size of my backlog!
I would say there's a couple reasons for the delay, but the need for extra dev time is probably last on the list (In my opinion) . Last I heard it was a Feb release, which is extremely crowded with huge releases coming... not only that this is a next gen only game and I assume WB have allowed for quite a big budget on this game based on the great success rock steady has had thus far, so by waiting that extra time they give more time for people to adopt the next gen consoles. I expect by June next year the figures to be around 20 million ps4s. But man that being said, the extra dev time is going to make this game just beyond gorgeous and I'm sure the gameplay will be second to none as well. Very excited for it.. thankfully I'll have lots of games to keep me focused in the mean time !
Some will complain but it's win win as far as I'm concerned. Gives Rocksteady more time, it puts the game in a less crowded slot, also frees up some dosh for those that wanted The Order or The Witcher 3 around the same time.
Between now & June 2015 there are a lot of big named games releasing, & considering this is the last game in the series, thay will want Arkham Knight to be remebered.
The price is 199.99 yikes
Something in the back of my mind was expecting a summer- Autumn release.
Do these special editions contain any story related DLC? I pre-ordered with shopto a while ago and was supposed to be getting so harley quinn story DLC but that bat mobile looks gooooood!
A February release would be too close to The Witcher III, another game published by WB. They made the right decision.
Hopefully they actually stick to this release date. Anyway, I'd have upgraded to the Limited Edition but I don't like having extra stuff lying around that I won't use like that statue. I'd prefer some in-game content instead but it's cool for collectors. Looks like it might be a high quality statue.
That's just freakin perfect. Now I have to wait even longer for this. O.O
Oh great, the 2nd time this game has been delayed. You can tell I'm just thrilled, cause I love waiting longer for games with, let me count, 3 given release dates now.
Not that I won't have other games to play, it's the principle of the matter. A delay from October to February could be excused as just time needed for polishing. But a further delay until June tells me they knew this game was never going to be ready in October. More and more I'm seeing this trend among third-party publishers where, I believe, they intentionally announce a premature release date in order to draw in more console sales. No one can deny that there has been an absurdly high number of delays surrounding both the PS4 and Xbox launch and year one lineup.
Whatever. I've just got to stop believing these third parties when they give a release date, and teach myself to not get excited until the game actually releases.
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