2020 is looking like death for a lot of games

[Charsace]

A lot of games seem to be caught in a bad place in 2020. You have the death line up of Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring, and Final Fantasy 7 Remake as huge games to end the generation. And then you have the start of next gen that will feature Halo at launch and who knows what else but we whatever else is coming will look better than current games.

If you had to guess which games do you think are going to get steamrolled by this combination?

 

[Mercenary09]

A lot of games seem to be caught in a bad place in 2020. You have the death line up of Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring, and Final Fantasy 7 Remake as huge games to end the generation. And then you have the start of next gen that will feature Halo at launch and who knows what else but we whatever else is coming will look better than current games.

If you had to guess which games do you think are going to get steamrolled by this combination?

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I mean we don't know when Elder Ring is coming yet. That could be 2021 as we saw absolutely nothing from it. But I agree 2020 is looking insane and this is without any next gen games even being announced right now. That early first half I don't think has ever been so full of huge games.

 

[I KILL PXLS]

What is a "death line up"?

 

[MrConbon210]

Most likely Last of Us 2 in early 2020 as well

 

[Lant_War]

I mean we don't know when Elder Ring is coming yet. That could be 2021 as we saw absolutely nothing from it. But I agree 2020 is looking insane and this is without any next gen games even being announced right now. That early first half I don't think has ever been so full of huge games.

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I think either Jason or another person with reliable info said it was releasing on the first half of 2020

 

[Deleted member 14377]

I mean we don't know when Elder Ring is coming yet. That could be 2021 as we saw absolutely nothing from it. But I agree 2020 is looking insane and this is without any next gen games even being announced right now. That early first half I don't think has ever been so full of huge games.

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Knowing FromSoft's ridiculous work ethic, it's easily 2020

 

[Deleted member 16365]

My guess it that you'll start to see games moving away from March to later in 2020. I doubt they knew they were all aiming for the same month.

 

[criteriondog]

The Last of Us Part II and Ghost of Tsushima are likely early 2020 as well!

 

[twisted heart]

Also Persona 5 R dropping next year.

 

[WestEgg]

Nintendo will probably be pretty exempt from this, since they'll be neither starting or ending a generation.

 

[Deleted member 32374]

I hope my PS4 survives the crushing assault of usage it shall receive.

My older DS4 most likely will not. :(

 

[Charsace]

Most likely Last of Us 2 in early 2020 as well

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lol another on the death line up. This shit is really weird to end a generation.

 

[shaneo632]

March 2020 is gonna be a bloodbath. Guess this means TLOU2 might opt for Jan or early Feb.

 

[Heckler456]

Stuff will move around. It just has to.

 

[Jessie]

What is a "death line up"?

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Square Enix's preferred launch windows for Dragon Quest and Tomb Raider games.

 

[Xenosaga]

So when is Elden Ring coming? 2020 Confirmed?

 

[The Emperor]

Square Enix's preferred launch windows for Dragon Quest and Tomb Raider games.

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Or Star Ocean wherein the last few came out a week before mainline final fantasy games lolmao

 

[MrConbon210]

lol another on the death line up. This shit is really weird to end a generation.

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Is it? All the games will be backwards compatible on the next systems. Would be weirder to push them all to next-gen for no reason.

 

[The Unsent]

I do wish they tried to make Shenmue 3 a wrap up for the series, in case it's a flop. It's a miracle it's getting made so I very doubt they can do the full vision for the series.

Edit forgot what year it is, lol.

 

[TubaZef]

First Semester will be packed.

But launch line-ups are usually not that big of a deal.

Also, expect at least half of these games to be delayed.

 

[Mercenary09]

I think either Jason or another person with reliable info said it was releasing on the first half of 2020

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Perhaps but that may change once they see what everyone else was doing.

 

[Charsace]

Stuff will move around. It just has to.

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Summer looks like the only viable place. Going into the Fall is just asking for it. Usually when generations end you don't have this sort of thing happening.

 

[Blizzcut]

Most likely Last of Us 2 in early 2020 as well

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This is all speculation yes? No official word?

 

[impact]

Nintendo will probably be pretty exempt from this, since they'll be neither starting or ending a generation.

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They also never really have these kind of lineups where you get like 3-4 big games in a month due to the lack of third parties.

 

[Razgriz417]

I'm expecting smaller titles to slip later into 2020 to avoid them

 

[MrConbon210]

This is all speculation yes? No official word?

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I think Jason Schrier (butchered that spelling) said it would be around then.

 

[Dinda]

If there is still the possibility for The Last of Us part 2 to make November Sony should take it, even if it is just besides Death Starnding. First Half of 2020 is crazy. (only if it actually would be ready of course, not rushing it)

 

[Devilgunman]

If TLoU also drops early 2020, other games not named Cyberpunk might as well push their games to summer.

 

[Rosebud]

Cyberpunk, Avengers, TLOU II and FF VIIR all together is crazy.

And this November there's Pokemon, Star Wars and Death Stranding.

 

[More Human than Human]

Forgot bout Bloodlines 2 and Baldurs Gate 3 OP.

 

[Charsace]

My gut is telling me anything within 2 months of 2077 and F7R is stepping into a kill ground, waiting to get chewed up by crossfire, especially other single player games.

 

[SunBroDave]

Last of Us 2
Cyberpunk
Watch Dogs
Avengers
Halo
Elden Ring
Final Fantasy VII
Ghost of Tsushima
Ori 2
Assassin's Creed Vikings
Silksong
Dying Light 2


It's going to be an INSANE year

 

[StrangeInStereo]

I hope my PS4 survives the crushing assault of usage it shall receive.

My older DS4 most likely will not. :(

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For real. My launch PS4 is still running strong, but having to buy a new PS4 in 2020 would be unfortunate lol.

 

[Fat4all]

Square Enix's preferred launch windows for Dragon Quest and Tomb Raider games.

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aint that the truth

 

[djplaeskool]

Some of these will probably bleed further into Q2/3, but yeah, first half of next year is looking hella-stacked.

 

[Charsace]

Forgot bout Bloodlines 2 and Baldurs Gate 3 OP.

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I am getting both of these, but I feel like they are in a Blade Runner 2049 situation where they have cult followings, but those cult followings won't equal huge box office numbers. In the case of both though I don't think they have budgets that will kill the studios if they don't have big numbers.

 

[Acorn]

There will be delays.

 

[sora87]

Looks good to me, finally some games i wanna play. 2019 has been a bust so far.

 

[Cryptosporidium]

None of these low budget ass games like Elden Ring or (pffft) FF7R stand a chance against the king..






Destroy All Humans Remake

 

[Deleted member 32374]

For real. My launch PS4 is still running strong, but having to buy a new PS4 in 2020 would be unfortunate lol.

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I can suggest a PS4 slim! Quiet, small, 1tb HDD, fully featured and inexpensive repalcement! Its jkm23 approved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Controllers are still $65 for cool colors lol)

 

[Chopin the Third]

I pray for my wallet. I want several of the games releasing next year, then there's the next gen games we don't even know about.

 

[7thFloor]

Next year is going to be absolutely fucking insane, maybe the most stacked year of this millennium, or possibly ever.

 

[Josh5890]

And Nintendo officially has nothing announced for 2020 as of right now lol

 

[HellofaMouse]

lol another on the death line up. This shit is really weird to end a generation.

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Laat year of console gens are usually insane (laat gen we had tlou+gta5+bioshock, the gen before that was gow2 and san andreas i think?)

But they are not THIS insane. Avengers, ff7r, tlou2, elden ring, cyberpunk, bloodlines 2, halo for scarlett launch, probably tsushima for ps5 launch. And god knows what will nintendo have, how many great indies we'll get.

2020 is gonna be legendary

 

[HK-47]

I mean we don't know when Elder Ring is coming yet. That could be 2021 as we saw absolutely nothing from it. But I agree 2020 is looking insane and this is without any next gen games even being announced right now. That early first half I don't think has ever been so full of huge games.

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Game has been in production since dark souls 3 dlc ended

 

[Josh5890]

There will be delays.

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Shhhh, these threads are fun every year

 

[Seahawk64]

Cyberpunk is gonna destroy everything earlier in the year.
Too much hype surrounding that game.

 

[Gay Bowser]

I mean, I don't know. January to May is five full months. There's like seven weeks between the release of FFVII R and Cyberpunk 2077. It's a little different from this year, where like four big games were supposed to come out on 2/22/19.

It's a lot of big games, but it's not a ridiculous amount all at once. It's what you'd expect and hope for in the last year of a generation — all the super big games we've been hearing about all generation are finally coming out.

The only ones that strike me as problematically close, at this juncture, are FFVII R and Watch Dogs 3 in the same week. I raised my eyebrow at Gods and Monsters and Watch Dogs 3 releasing within ten days of each other, but that's just because they're both from the same publisher, and I'm not sure why Ubisoft would do that.

Outside of NetherRealm titles, April and May are typically a little barren after a super packed "must beat the end of the fiscal year" February and March, so if anything it's nice to see really big games (Cyberpunk, Avengers) planned for those months to spread things out a bit.

 

[More Human than Human]

I am getting both of these, but I feel like they are in a Blade Runner 2049 situation where they have cult followings, but those cult followings won't equal huge box office numbers. In the case of both though I don't think they have budgets that will kill the studios if they don't have big numbers.

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I can see BD3 getting a lot of buzz tbh. Not at the same level as Cyberpunk, FF and TLoU of course but enough to not be considered niche.

 

[Chasing]

From Software is at least one of the developers that are ridiculously consistent with their release dates.