Games media, we understand it’s been a long week, but please engage your brains: the Days Gone release date hasn’t leaked, otherwise Sony would have said it on stage during its press conference this week. You know this, we know this, so quit trying to deceive your readers by capitalising on what’s clearly a mistake.
For those of you who may have been duped, a montage trailer on an official PlayStation channel (which has since been removed, by the way) accidentally included a 29th December release date. Two things: no game of this scale is launching after Christmas – that’s just suicide. Second thing: Sony’s already said that its E3 2017 press conference – which the Sony Bend developed adventure was a part of – focused on 2018 games. You damn well know this.
Hopefully that’s cleared things up for you, anyway. Days Gone isn’t releasing this year, and any suggestions that it is are either erroneous or a result of awful reporting. Idiots!
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I didn't know that the date was leaked - even if inaccurate. I certainly wasn't expecting this until 2018 at the very earliest and no idea how far away they are from even finishing the game, let along the play-testing, polishing etc before going Gold
I'm glad this isn't releasing this year, I'm planning on buying a Pro when this comes out but I'm also getting an XBX, I couldn't afford both consoles within a month of each other! But yeah the 29th December for Days Gone wouldn't of made sense anyway.
Fools! Idiots! Savages!
What's really pathetic to me is not even one of three big titles they announced at E3 2016 arent realeasing this year. This is why we didnt see Sucker Punches game.
@CB7Tuner91 Everyone should know by now that Sony don't release a big game in the second half of the year, it would be a sales suicide to do so.
@adf86 I don't think Sony releasing one of their big games in the second half of the year would be a sales suicide, it's not as if people only have money when it's just before Christmas in Nov/Dec. If a new CoD came out this month rather than its traditional November release, do you think its sales would suffer? I don't think it would.
For both Days Gone and Detroit, have Sony confirmed they're coming out in 2018 now? I believe both were originally slated for 2017.
Or since they didn't give a release date at E3 for either, does that mean they're definitely not coming this year?
@MaccaMUFC I can wait for Forza 7. I don't get that excited by racing sim games anyway, I find them a bit repetitive - go round similar looking tracks (different backgrounds maybe) in similar cars and repeat over and over again. At least Forza, with its dynamic weather and impact that can have on the track should bring some variation - more than just cosmetic. I don't play these online anyway - more just something 'different' from an action, adventure, shooter...
This years CoD launches 4days before XBX. Assuming I buy it, I doubt I would start the campaign before I got the XBX. Playing the MP for a few days beforehand isn't a big deal and may be the game that I get the 'before and after' look at. Titanfall was the game I had this with on the Pro and didn't play IW's campaign until after I had my Pro. I think its OK to play the opening mission or a bit of MP beforehand - just so you can see exactly how much something is improved - what your money has actually bought.
Destiny 2 could also be that game, but if its like Destiny 1, by the time November arrives, it could have shown everything the game has to offer - not sure I would wait 2 months with a game like Destiny but I could keep a character or two until 7th - Maybe! Its not like the missions etc will not be played over and over again anyway so different to a SP campaign. SW:BF2 comes out after and the only other games I am 'almost' certain to buy, AC:O, Wolfenstein, Evil Within are all Single player games so may wait to play them until after Nov 7th.
Its not as if I won't have games like Uncharted to play on my Pro and may pick up Destiny 2 on that as well - I did for Destiny 1...
As for releasing 'exclusives' around CoD's release, I really don't think it affects sales. The only thing it affects is the chance to be the 'no 1' game that week. If its 'good' enough, it should still sell well enough. I can see it having 'lower' day 1 sales but I still think those that would have bought, wold still buy at some point. Unless its bad and you get those that bought day 1 just because but the long term sales aren't there compared to a good game.
@MaccaMUFC People only have a limited amount of money to buy games and their likely to buy the known quantities like CoD etc. People think different genre games appeal to different markets, not in the AAA space with huge marketing budgets where every publisher is trying to sell the next big thing. They all compete for shelf space and TV spots because the first few weeks of a AAA game going on sale critical because most titles don't have a long shelf live at the top of the charts to maximize profits. That's why Titanfall 2 and Dishonoured 2 struggled because they got lost in the noise when they would have done much better in January and February.
Sony also have other responsibilities in it's exclusives because it's trying to push hardware as well as software, while also establishing a brand if it's a new IP, it why moving Horizon to early 2017 was smart because it wouldn't have anywhere near as much had it released in November because in February Horizon became the most own game due to reviews marketing and hype which most of that would have got lost amonst the CoD, Battlefield and FIFA stuff.
A video game release date is just about the most unreliable thing in the world. It will come out when it's finished. The waiting sucks but it is what it is.
So if Days Gone and Spider-Man come out in the first half of 2018 along with God of War...will you guys copy and paste your articles from a couple months ago about it being the best year ever for gaming and just edit it to show next year's games? 😂 That'd be pretty amazing to have back to back years like that. Still glad that I got my PS4 just in time for all of this.
When you look closely , you can see that game is not ready yet! They have more to do
I think it will be state at 2018
Anyway what we should play this year? 😕
@adf86 this is true, but for them to not give us a date at all on this is kinda worrisome
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