Well, this is becoming an unfortunate reoccurrence, isn't it? There's not one game that Sony hasn't delayed this year, and Gravity Rush 2 is the latest to join the "pushed back" party. To be fair to the Japan Studio developed title, this very much appears to be a marketing move rather than a production problem – but that doesn't make the change any less disappointing.
Writing on the PlayStation Blog, director Keiichiro Toyama explained that while development is "proceeding smoothly", the "landscape for the release date has changed dramatically". Of course, what he's referring to here is the fact that both Final Fantasy XV and The Last Guardian are now perched precariously on Kat's cute button nose.
In order to make up for the delay, Sony has announced that the title's first premium expansion pack – which was going to be sold separately – will now be bundled into the package for free. You'll be able to enjoy the full campaign along with the add-on from 18th January in Europe and 20th January in North America, which is the title's new (and hopefully final) release date.
In other words, a week before Resident Evil 7. Kat may have the cream, but she doesn't have much luck, does she?
[source blog.us.playstation.com, via blog.eu.playstation.com]
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Ah come on Sony... you've gotta be kidding me, right?
Half of these delays are probably for the same reason as Gravity Rush's. Like I've always said at least Sony has the patience from a business and quality pov to release games at the right time. But some will cry fowl because they can't win either way. People moan when a game is rushed and then they moan when it gets delayed.
Wouldn't be surprised if Horizon gets held back for the same reason as March is looking packed already.
They basically acknowledge this is a marketing move in the PlayStation Blog post. The game's going to be finished on time, hence why they're using the extra month to add in the DLC.
It's a tricky one, isn't it? Avoid the bad press that a delay brings and put the game out at a time when it's going to get overshadowed or put the game out at a slightly quieter time and withstand the ire of people who think this is happening too often.
And it is happening too often now IMO.
@get2sammyb It doesn't matter though really, people forget about it once the game they've been waiting for comes out.
He said he didn't want to compete in the holiday season against FF15, Last Guardian and Pokemon Sun and Moon.
Also this does raise the question, how do we know this dlc wasn't originally cut from the game in the first place?
I'd rather that the game gets delayed and sells more than gets swamped by new releases, doesn't hit the sales target, and the series gets cancelled.
It's just 30 days, I'm sure we can find other games to play in that time.
Releasing the game in december between final fantasy 15 and the last guardian will kill its sales, I like the previous game so I want this game to have better sales, I actually glad the game's getting delayed.
I already have plans to buy tomb raider & the last guardian plus preordering ps vr (with battlezone, batman, ps vr world and rez) so my fall game plan is packed.
@Cassetticons True, I want gravity rush 3, game like this and the last guardian doesn't get made anymore.
@Xaessya Looks to me like they were planning to release the DLC a month after the game. Everything's on schedule, so they're just going to include it rather than sell it separately.
Artists, etc will probably have finished work on the main game already, so will have begun work on the DLC I imagine. Doesn't mean it was removed from the main game necessarily.
A shame that this happened, but it was fairly obvious once The Last Guardian was pushed back.
I'd say it was probably the right move, even though it reinforces the idea that Sony delays everything.
Isn't Yakuza 0 releasing on the same date as well?
Good. I was hoping this would get delayed. The free dlc is a bonus, but I would've bought it either way. No need to send a Kat into a Lions' Den.
At least this explains the lack of marketing. I imagine Sony knew wayyyy in advance that The Last Guardian would have to be delayed.
Are you kidding me? I just dropped 40 bucks on my pre order for this.
@WanderingBullet It is, yes. So much for avoiding all of the big guns.
@get2sammyb it's annoying, Since Uncharted 4 it's becoming a trend... Makes you wonder how long we'll have to wait for the likes of god of War and Spiderman...
Never mind dead stranding................
@get2sammyb
In today's world you can never shake that feeling when someone announces dlc before the game is launch
@get2sammyb
Cut from game /fine line/ made to sell as DLC 1 month after launch
I know you were probably partly joking about the "every game this year has been delayed" but what about PSVR? Any big game delays on that front? Nobody ever mentions PSVR as a potential reason for some of these other delays. Not FFXV, that was foreseeable, but maybe TLG?
Clearly Sony is no longer trustworthy with initial release dates. Can't wait for Horizon to be pushed to april and for spiderman, god of war, and days gone to all be 2018 games.
People say avoid the busy period. well january has Yakuza 0, RE7, and KH 2.8. then there's all of february.
@rjejr PSVR and MLB are the only ones that didn't get delayed I think.
@get2sammyb Thanks. Just double checked and Yakuza 0, Kingdom Hearts 2.8 HD and Resident Evil 7 are all releasing on the 24th of January (US).
I think it's the right move for them to delay it since it'll be competing with too many big games in the fall.
This was probably my most anticipated game left this year... Sigh.
I really don't mind delays at all...It will give the game more time to be polished and release in a better environment, as I can see the audience for this and other big Japanese release like FF an TLG overlapping more than January's offerings.
@rjejr FFXV actually caught me off-guard, they had a huge event in a theatre culminating with the release date being shown on a mega screen... It could come out in 2017 if they think they need more time and it would be OK with me though.
@Feena Maybe I should have wrote "should have been foreseeable" instead of "was" after 10 years and a name change. I was surprised at first as well, but then I was like "of course it was".
Unlike you though, after pre-ordering it in January I'm not buying it now. Probably some day, but after the delay, the season pass, the non-season pass additional DLC, the $450 Slim bundle, well I've had enough. I'm getting Witcher 3 Complete instead. Or Star Ocean. Waited 10 years, 1 more won't matter for the patched and updated International Edition or whatever they'll call it.
We're looking at a game that's going to be a niche release anyway. At least now it won't get eaten alive by quite so many blockbusters.
But yeah, these delays are looking a bit comical by this point. Whenever Sony dates something, do yourself a favour and add 6 months.
@WebHead Yakuza and a KH remaster aren't going to do good numbers in the west. It's a bit different if your coming out after FFXV, CoD, Battlefield, Watch Dogs and Titanfall.
I expect every game to get delayed before release these days, especially Sony games. This wasn't too surprising for me. This gives me more time to save up for a PS4, I guess.
We still have the Hellblade delay announcement to come, too
Maybe they didn't want a blemish on their 100% delayed record.
I don't see this as a bad thing. More time for me to pick up the first one, and see if 2 is worth getting. Plus this DLC bonus is nice.
I'm gonna be honest in general delays help me, because I have little time to play. But next year is too crowded! February Persona 5, March Mass Effect and Zelda NX! P5 + ME + Zelda + New Nintendo console = year long of games!!
@rjejr go for the Witcher, it's amazing and eave Star Ocean 5 on the shelf, seriously not worth it.
Makes sense I think from the marketing perspective - glad they are honest.
I'm not going to have any games to play at Christmas at this rate, almost every game I was going to buy I now now coming out next year
As soon as Final Fantasy was moved to the end of November I expected Gravity Rush to come out in 2017, it's not the most popular title and to release it in a crowded time of year wouldn't do the game or fans justice.
Good Move.
Nice to use DLC to compensate for the delay.
2017 is going to be great!
At least its not out next to Horizon right
It's ridiculous how many big releases are congesting Q1 2017 now.
@Feena Thanks for the advice, but it's kind of up to my family, we're a very odd lot, I play videogames and they watch, it's like Twitch IRL, or something. I'm a youtuber in my own home, held captive by what my adoring fans want me to play. Right now my family is watching me play Ni No Kuni before bedtime, and my wife is watching me play Bayonetta 2 after the kids go to bed. So it's actually possible I play them both at once, W3 w/ the misses late nights, SO w/ the kids. My wife is really pushing for FFXV - it's her favorite series - but she's put off by the delay and season pass.
I know everyone was expecting it, but I actually was surprised it got delayed. The game looks like it's going smoothly.
I suppose it's for the best though. It was against long in the making FFXV and Last Guardian. At least Gravity Rush beats them both in development time.
Sorry @Gamer83, you'll have to wait a bit longer.
@rjejr hahaha that's amazing! And wow Ninokuni and Bayonetta 2...It doesn't get much better than that
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
This is why I think games should be announced and released in the same month! Like they finish the product, they show it as it is, them sell it a month later! You would avoid the raging fans and also avoid cases like no mans sky, where the game changes so much between announcement and release....
Well, with this and South Park delayed I think I need to turn my attention to Battlefield and Tomb Raider this holiday season!
It's not even fun to write Delaystation4 more like the PushbackDreamcast.
The Dreamcast was an awesome name now that i think of it. Too bad the PS4 gave them a rude awakening . Budoom Teeeiiish
This game really is thr final straw for me. The mismanagement of the first party is unexceptable.
@DerMeister
Yup, not going to lie, I'm really, really sick of all these delays. The PS4 in general has not been the console I wanted it to be, so far. If the Xbox Scorpio isn't more bs from a giant corporation, then I'm taking my money and going right back to Xbox as my primary console for gaming like it was last-gen. At least on Xbox consoles I can use external harddrives, the exclusives I want with the exception of Crackdown 3 and Quantum Break have all hit on time and the big third party games are always there. If MS isn't lying, it's also going to be more powerful than the PS4 Pro, for some people horsepower doesn't matter, to me as a multi-console owner, that does factor in when I'm deciding which platform to buy certain games on. Sony has missed every freaking deadline with the PS4 exclusives, has had some sh*tty practices (no external Harddrives, no EA Access) just stuff in general that has annoyed me. The delays after freaking delays after freaking delays are just beyond frustrating though, and the 'free DLC' - which probably should be in the game to begin with but was likely cut out in the same bullsh*tty way Square Enix made sure stuff was cut out of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - doesn't make up for the delay. Gravity Rush 2 is a game with a specific audience that would buy it whether it launched in December, January or even July. It's not going to be a big seller, Sony isn't going to market it, so all this does is make a third consecutive holiday with f**k all from Sony. It's not the end of the world, because I have the Xbox One but it'd be nice if Sony would stop giving release dates it clearly never has any intention of making good on.
@themcnoisy
The way this gen has gone you will be able to recycle that comment next year, just substituting in 2018 for 2017.
Isn't that literally all their exclusives delayed at one point? Well, no GR2 Christmas presents for you!
@ekreig
It took 26 comments until someone made that reference in my absence, I'm very disappointed
@Gamer83 Scalebound and Phantom Dust have been bang on schedule, too!
@Ralizah There's still time for all the Q1 2017 games to get delayed into Q2 2017!
@get2sammyb
Never said it was perfect, but the delays haven't been as frequent on Xbox One and as far as games I'm interested in it's only been Quantum Break which took forever and Crackdown 3 which is taking entirely too long. With PS4 it's literally been every game I look forward to gets slapped with a delay. If most here don't care, that's great. It has definitely had a negative effect on my opinion of Sony and the PS4 though and will be taken into account in the future if there is a PS5 and Xbox Two.
@Gamer83 I honestly feel the pain that everyone is having right now. While I'm a patient person who just wants to game, I'm really feeling the effects of the repeated delays. If I'm remembering correctly (feel free to jog it), the same thing happened last year too. It really, really sucks right now. While there are 3rd party titles as well as indies and downloadable titles, having the big exclusives (and indeed, the primary reason I enjoy Playstation are the bevy of exclusives) get the kind of treatment they've gotten recently stings.
@Gamer83 I'm sure games on xbox scorpio will never be delayed lol. Although I don't think there will be xbox two, ms want to sold games on it's windows store, not losing billion on xbox hardware.
Look at bright side, at least ps4 has many exclusive games although it's delayed.
@DerMeister Playstation exclusive usually arrive in start of the years, in the fall it's 3rd party games chance to shine. Why compete with final fantasy, cod, battlefield, and titanfall 2 when you can release it early next year and have all the sales. I have a lot of games I plan to purchase this fall so this delay actually good for me (and good for the games sales too).
@wiiware
I never actually stated that Xbox games don't suffer delays, what I did suggest is the Xbox exclusives I've looked forward to, with the exception of a couple, have more often than not arrived right on time. With Sony this gen it is delay after delay. End of the world? Absolutely not, this is a luxury hobby, but when deciding where to put most of my time and money into gaming going forward, this does factor in and in comparison to MS this gen Sony has disappointed me.
@Gamer83 Sony sometimes too eager announcing the games release date so maybe it's sometimes disappointing when they can't make it, but unless you bought ps4 as a second console just for exclusive I think we already got a lot of third party games in fall so it's not a big problem.
For the best, don't believe sony when they announcing games release date in the fall, always assume the games will release in early nexy year. I mean nearly all sony exclusive launch in the beginning of the year, like infamous 2nd son, the order, bloodborne, uncharted 4, and ratchet and clank.
I still think it's better to receive exclusive all year rather than only in the fall. I do agree on naming ps4 delaystation though
didn't really make sense to release this at the same time as the last guardian. anyway didn't they bring this forward from a 2017 western date to be closer to the japanese date?. now they've put it back again.. whatever, it does look really indecisive. sony's got marketing deals with call of duty, watch dogs, and final fantasy xv all in november - all to coincide with black friday and beyond. no exclusive game on any platform could compete that.
it seems to be the strategy sony have adopted for PS4, and generally released its exclusive games in the first 9 months of the year.. i don't think they'll be able to get away with it next year though. if the next xbox arrives on time, sony will need something that it can't deliver, regardless of whether it has more gpu power or not.
not convinced things are better on team xbox. up until late september, quantum break was the only first party microsoft studios game this year, and has since added yet another forza (which isn't a massive seller), and another gears of war. in all of 2015, there was another forza, gears of war ultimate edition, halo 5 and rare replay... 2014 had forza horizon 2, halo collection, project spark. that's not exactly a thrilling portfolio imo, more like flogging the same horse..
@leucocyte Xbox one is hopeless, their new ip like quantum break, recore, and sunset overdrive flopped in sales, now they only have halo, gear, and forza. At least in this generation playstation have a new ip like bloodborne, until dawn, driveclub vr, horizon zero dawn and spiderman. And we still got our old ip like last of us, god of war, and gran turismo.
I think it's better to release exclusive game anytime but the fall since fall is third party time to shine. So we get games throughout the years rather than all of it on fall like xbox.
More delays don't really bother me...there's a ton on the PS4 to get and play through to keep my interest until then, and that gives me more time to save up for Gravity Rush 2 and New Hot Shots Golf (who knows when the later will come out). Other than that, there will still be more announcements, but games do take a lot longer to make and complete now, and the more stress you put on the developers (making a quick time limit and taking away sleep and rest for them), makes the games sloppy looking. And with delays...look how long it's been taking nintendo to release the new Legend Of Zelda for Wii U...a game that was announced almost 4 years ago when the Wii U was announced!
@wiiware That just begs the question of why they would put a game like Gravity Rush there in the first place. Basically, Sony are just slapping a release date without the foresight of how a game will perform at retail.
@DerMeister They don't know final fantasy 15 and the last guardian will be delayed to december. I'm actually glad they delayed it since I want this game to succeed, and getting free dlc is sweet. And maybe they can add ps vr support, man it will be really cool to experience flying on the game with ps vr.
I think it's better if sony just release exclusive game only on the first nine month of the year, let the last 3 month belong to big AAA third party titles. Especially with niche (or new franchise) titles like this.
I'm totally cool with this and its great we get some free dlc. Early 2017 seems like it's going to have some great games coming out.
With my PS4 now relegated to being an exclusive-only console like Wii U, delays like these make so much more of an impact.
I said it a while back about Gravity Rush 2 getting delayed... what's sad is this doesn't surprise me. What's sad is I already knew this was gonna happen so it's not even like a shocking coincidence.
@wiiware Admittedly I didn't consider the delays of the other games. I did fact check and see that Gravity Rush 2's date was set before FFXV and Last Guardian got delayed. So, my mistake.
Still, Sony should be careful about release dates. Regardless of reason, plausible or not, it doesn't look good when a company's big games get delayed all the time.
Like you said, and I said in my first comment, it's probably better that Gravity Rush 2 got delayed in this case, so it doesn't get doomed to sales hell. As long as Sony advertise the thing, anyway.
Not too bothered partly because it's just standard procedure at this point and I was planning to play it after Pokemon and The Last Guardian. Plus it would be nice if a quieter window helps it get more recognition.
@DerMeister
You can be sure Gravity Rush 2 will get the same amount of advertising it's received up to this point.
@DerMeister Yeah it's a bit (a lot) ridiculous that's nearly all ps4 exclusive games got delayed, that's why I'm okay if we're renaming ps4 to delaystation
Ps4 is my main gaming machine though so I have a lot of third party games to tide me over. And so much backlog.. (I already give up on my steam backlog).
@Gamer83 True, sony doesn't even bother to show 1 minutes of the game's trailer on it's playstation e3 press conference, they do show cod and lego games though
@Gamer83 It feels like Ratchet & Clank all over again, except Sony doesn't have Uncharted 4 as a crutch this time.
Oh for f*ck's sake! That's a more jovial utterance from me but this is just bloody ridiculous, largely because every other f*cker is doing it. I understand it but does everyone need to delay things.
Although on the plus side, 2017 is a going to be off to a great start. I feel I may have to install a toilet next to my sofa as it's clear I won't have time to go to the toilet with all these games.
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