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[Rumor] Retailer leaks God of War release: March 22nd
- Thread starter RocknRola
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Seems more and more likely. That and RDR2's release date, or delay, are expected.
It's so bizarre to me that games always seem to find a way to release in a cluster. Why do Far Cry 5, God of War, Yakuza 6, Ni No Kuni 2, A Way Out, MLB The Show, and Sea of Thieves all have to release in a 10-day span right after a dry spell? It makes no sense and is unnecessary. Everyone would benefit from spreading things out.
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The standard and CE versions of the guide have popped up with their final covers.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/prima-...s-edition-guide-multi/6181805.p?skuId=6181805
CE is 320 pages and the standard is 208.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/prima-...s-edition-guide-multi/6181805.p?skuId=6181805
CE is 320 pages and the standard is 208.
I suppose maybe that's the reason?? Still though...they should be able to release some of those games in February and April. I really think the separation would help sales too.
That may be so, but it's still all the big games so far this year releasing at the same time. People have limited time and budgets. And they do have interest in multiple genres.
They're still games competing for a finite amount of dollars from everyone. Even I don't know how I'm going to get the 4 I want that week, good luck to anyone getting even more than that.
On a week or month where not much else is out something like Ni No Kuni 2 could get the spotlight from various sites and if reviews were really good it may get some casuals on board. But in this situation it'll get swallowed alive by god of war, far cry, kirby and possibly even sea of thieves if MS promotes it, and in the niche space it'll be competing with yakuza 6.
Every single big console GOW game released in March, it's almost tradition at this point.
- God of War released on March 22, 2005
- God of War II released on March 13, 2007
- God of War III released on March 16, 2010
- God of War: Ascension released on March 12, 2013
God of war 3 release date was announced in January and released in march
Man so much stuff is popping out for this game it's gotta be soon.
I'm even tempted to pick up the guide mainly for the illustrations lol.
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I really hope so,that's right near my birthday.I actually wouldn't mind a slightly further away release date (may for example) i wouldn't want them panicking to get the game out.
huh, considering that GoW4 didn't start right after Ascension and SSM probably spent more than a year developing Stig's canceled game. GoW4 dev time didn't seem that bad. probably around 3 to 4 year? if it end up released at March 2018. 3-4 year to making a very different GoW that it might as well be new IP on new gen of hardware (compared to previous one).
Lots of people enjoy a variety of games.
I know I am interested in almost all of them outside of MLB The Show. I would definitely be able to buy more if they were spread out instead of having to pick 1-2 and then wait for the others to drop in price.
Barlog was brought back specifically to reimagine God of War, so it was in the planning phase before he even arrived in August 2013. We're at four and a half years at this point.
I think recent game informer preview mention that Barlog is the one who pitch GoW to Sony, Sony didnt want another GoW after Ascension underperform. Only after Barlog make his new kind of GoW that Sony give the go ahead.
Dont know if we had any date when this happened though
Yes, he did pitch to them. They had no idea what the game was going to be, only that they new they wanted a reimagining of God of War, and Shannon said they either needed Jaffe or Barlog to do it, and Jaffe was busy at the time. Corey was never brought back for anything other than to make a new God of War, so we can assume the planning phase for the game began as soon as he rejoined the studio.
Cool beans. March is cool, I only got Yakuza in mind (for now). Edit: shit ni no kuni, too
I'm entirely confident that this game will rock, but I'm not really that excited, thanks to the pretty tame marketing so far. Which is just as well, considering how hyped I was for 3. The trailers for that game were godly. Oh, hey. Godly amirite.
Anyway, curious to see how they'll ramp up the marketing for such a big title and I wonder if they'll spoil too many of those impossibly big boss creatures. Hope not.
I'm entirely confident that this game will rock, but I'm not really that excited, thanks to the pretty tame marketing so far. Which is just as well, considering how hyped I was for 3. The trailers for that game were godly. Oh, hey. Godly amirite.
Anyway, curious to see how they'll ramp up the marketing for such a big title and I wonder if they'll spoil too many of those impossibly big boss creatures. Hope not.
Hmm seems like press kits are already out or on the way, at least according to this video?
Also reaffirms the March 22nd date from the source with the press kit but uh...yeah what's up with that then? Sounds like it has a build of the game too.
Also reaffirms the March 22nd date from the source with the press kit but uh...yeah what's up with that then? Sounds like it has a build of the game too.
Same. Especially with how very common it is for the series to hit March.
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We're in mid-January already and there in no real announcement yet, no way to is coming in March.
My guess is also around June.
My guess is also around June.
I can't wait for the media blowout, these shorter hype cycles are the best way to go about it.
I saw it too dated for June 30th in some of the EU Amazon websites. It's still up at amazon.es, wrongly labeled as God of War IV. Hope the March 22th date is the true one.
Q2 placeholder date?
Very plausible imo would make sense too.
March is their month to shine mostly, look at the past.
March is their month to shine mostly, look at the past.
Picking up Yakuza 6 that week so when I'm done with that I'll get God of War as much as I'm looking forward to God of War, I need more Kiryu.
If that's the date it does need to be announced soon.