Soldato
Later in the year we are going to get a raft of delays, if things carry on as they are, I think both consoles will get delayed into next year.
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Later in the year we are going to get a raft of delays, if things carry on as they are, I think both consoles will get delayed into next year.
"Definitely a possibility"? We were still going about our business as usual until the beginning of March, there was absolutely no indication in January to most people, businesses or seemingly even the government that we'd be in lockdown. I'm not sure how you're expecting a games developer/publisher to be better at contingency planning for a pandemic than the rest of us.
There's probably also the fact that with thousands dying daily it's perhaps not the best time for a massive marketing campaign for a game with the sort of themes TLoU2 has, the media would slaughter them.
Agreed, and even if they do somehow launch, various other games will undoubtedly have been pushed back by then too so there might not even be much worth buying a new console for until a good year or so later.
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Soldato
There was plenty of indication especially when a few people from that region returned/visited a skii resort in europe.
The gov and many people in the public brushed it off as the "flu" and people still do so and dont care.
There are other games that have come out or will come in the next month or two that have not been delayed.
Good for them. If they're able to finish and launch a game in the current climate without it severely affecting sales so be it, evidently ND and Sony are not.
Soldato
They can release it digitally
They can but doesn't seem like they want to, whether that's due to contractual obligations or the impact on overall sales by not going physical too we don't know.
I can't see them rushing to push out a post-pandemic-apocalypse horror game right now, it's not like they're a struggling indie that don't have the buffers to delay launch a while longer.
FWIW the studio I'm at has transitioned to all remote working fairly painlessly, I don't imagine the disruption is too bad for any other studio, in terms of being able to continue development.
FWIW the studio I'm at has transitioned to all remote working fairly painlessly, I don't imagine the disruption is too bad for any other studio, in terms of being able to continue development.
The fact that they aren't suggests that physical sales are still a lot more important than many people think.
How does that work for people who need fairly powerful systems, have they taken the hardware home with them?
Indeed. My physical pre-order never got cancelled but got a notice of the delay.
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A good friend of mine is a senior developer at Thekla (Braid, The Witness etc), and they are all working at home, but from my understanding they are operating their office based desktop PCs remotely to still utilize the hardware etc.
Caporegime
Thekla? Do you know what they’re working on? It’s been ages since The Witness came out.
I've got my beast of a work system at home, definitely not being used for gaming out of hours
Of what? Footage? The story?