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Guerrilla Games: development is on track, update on Horizon Forbidden West release date very soon
- Thread starter Kolx
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I honestly think they're waiting to see what is announced for other games at E3 before stamping a date on it.
Spider-Man? Death Stranding? Gran Turismo? The Last Guardian?
I'm thinking it'll slot nicely into a September date, likely Sept 3rd.
Close to holiday? You know it's May, right? Half a year before November.
If that game were August, that date would have been announced today surely. That's like just over 2 months away lol
Sony recently doubled down on H2 2021, so I'd imagine that they'll be able to hit that mark if development really is on track.
were those really fall?
the latter 2 definitely were, but they felt like forever ago.
Things change, I don't know why people want a release date so bad if they aren't certain, the game is still months away.
Spider-Man was September 2018. Death Stranding was November 2019.
Spider man launched with the PS5 in November last year and Death Stranding was like October of 2019
Six months is not exactly a massive length of time in AAA game development terms.
They're just waiting for that Switch Pro + BotW2 release date so they can schedule it a few days before.
Will be interesting to see, and you do have a point regarding Sony delegating some of that stuff to 3rd party releases. But I feel like Sony has always had at least 1 heavy hitter for the second half of the year, with 2019 being Death Stranding in November and 2018 was Spider-Man in September.
Regardless of their spring releases, I get the feeling they always save at least 1 big 1st party for the second half. If Horizon misses that, I don't know what else they have.
I don't see them doing a state of play for a game that isn't set to release in six months.
I fully expect it to come out this year.
I fully expect it to come out this year.
You know what I mean. I had figured this was obvious by the language I specifically chose to use.
But surely you know that Sony typically doesn't give exact release dates 6 months before launch
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Best move would be to launch in a different quarter to not have to share the attention.
Don't think that would be very smart.
Best move would be to launch in a different quarter to not have to share the attention.
Zero Dawn released on Feb 28th, 2017, so they would put Forbidden West in the same timeframe.
It's something I can easily see.
Plus, it would avoid Zelda's release window, which is something that I think hurt Zero Dawn (BOTW released on Mar 3rd, 2017 with the Switch).
Sure, but the fact they couldn't even commit to a vague '2021' certainly suggests uncertainty.
If it was 2022, they wouldn't have done the SOP today but much closer to release. They would've shown a short new trailer at their next event. It would be unprecedented to see this much from a major Sony game and have it still be almost a year away
We're not close to Holiday at all, and Sony likely has another unannounced game coming out around that timeframe.
The Last of Us online MP (which was reported to be in the "polishing" stage).
Also for the short memories, God of War's date was announced in the January of its April release.
Well you said "for E3" and "the E3 event" so no, I didn't pick up on that I guess lol
…Did you quote the wrong person? I was specifically talking about it being in August
I'm not even sure that correlates. They gave a vaque 2021 for GoW 2, and I can't imagine them being certain it making this year.
It's much more reasonable to just read their blog post, that says they are on track with development and will make an announcement very soon.
This.
I think they're just spreading out the PR. Why give everything up at once? They can get another blitz of promo by saving the release date for the next event.
Yeah, you're probably right there.
If it's announced next month which I think it will, then September's a safer bet.
