Final Fantasy fans will have to wait longer to get their hands on the latest game in the series. Square Enix has confirmed that Final Fantasy XV has been delayed by two months, pushing the release date from 30th September 2016 to 29th November 2016. The reason for the delay is to allow extra time for polish and testing the game’s quality before putting it in the hands of players, and includes reworking the day one patch so it is included on the disc instead.
WB Games has revealed that Batman: Return to Arkham has been delayed, with no new release date or window. The delay is to allow the team at Virtuous Games “additional time to deliver a polished Batman Arkham game experience.” A new release date for the game will be revealed when the game is near ready. The game was originally expected to launch in July 2016.
A report from Kotaku last night reports that one of this year’s anticipated games, No Man’s Sky, has been delayed. The game, which will be releasing on PS4 and PC, was expected to release on 22nd June 2016, but two sources have told Kotaku that the game has been delayed with no new release date.
Naughty Dog’s Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End has suffered a second delay, while productions wraps up on the game. Naught Dog confirms that the game is on track to go gold, but the delay is to allow extra manufacturing time to meet global demand for the game. As a result, the game will now be launching on 10th May 2016, instead of 29th April 2016.
Warner Bros. have announced that Batman: Arkham Knight has been delayed yet again, and will now be releasing on June 23rd 2015. A new gameplay trailer has been released “as a reward for your patience and understanding, and to make the wait even more unbearable”.
Bandai Namco’s Project CARS has been delayed to yet again, making it the third delay to date. After the last delay, the release date was set to April 2nd 2015, but today Slightly Mad Studios has pushed it back to May 2015. The claim is that the game is 99.9% complete but wants extra time to complete the remaining 0.1%.
Naughty Dog has announced that Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End is being delayed to Spring 2016. Originally expected to release sometime this year, Naughty Dog has said the “game is much more ambitious than we originally envisioned.”
Project CARS has been delayed yet again according to Slightly Mad Studios. The game was originally set for release in November 2014, but was delayed to March 20th 2015. It has now beed delayed again, but only by a few weeks. The reason for the second delay is to make “final adjustments in the game”.
It looks like delays with driving simulators is becoming common place. Namco Bandai have decided to delay the launch of Project CARS on all platforms until March 2015, for a number of reasons. Given that the game’s release date was just a few weeks away, the main reason for the delay is to avoid clashing with other big games in the run up to Christmas.
LittleBigPlanet 3 has been delayed by a week in Europe, the developers have revealed, “to give Sackboy the best opportunity to shine.” The game will now be releasing on November 26th 2014 in Europe, but the North American version will still be releasing on November 18th 2014.
