Ghost of Tsushima Reportedly Pushed Back to Later in 2020 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 24 October 2019 / 2,747 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment and Naughty Dog announced earlier they have delayed the release of The Last of Us Part II from February 21, 2020 to May 29, 2020.
Kotaku reporter Jason Schreier via Twitter has said the upcoming first-party game from Sony, Ghost of Tsushima, will be pushed back from the first half of 2020 to later in the year in order to spread out the releases of major PlayStation exclusives.
A release later in 2020 would put it around the time of the launch of the PlayStation 5, however, Schreier says the game will still release on the PlayStation 4. It is possible the game will see a release on both platforms.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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It could still be a June/July release and that would have enough spacing from TLOU2 plus not competing with launch of PS5 and other blockbuster at the end of the year.
Well TLOU2 launching in March even after delay to have 3 months space would need June, September would make it 5 months and would be closer to PS5 and possibly cut some sales (unless of course they make a sleeve card play and use GoT to launch an even better version with PS5 release).
@DonFerrari Sony confirmed TLOU2 has been delayed to May 29. I also think GoT will be pushed to the fall.
Yeah this is coming out in the fall for sure.
It is my fault in reading MARCH not MAY. Yes then trukswd expectation for September makes a lot more sense than mine for June/July in keeping balance. Still let's see how GoT uses the extra time that they got without requesting and if they will change a little their plan (maybe if they finish before original schedule they'll have plenty of time to work on the tweaks for a launch in PS5).
If its releasing near the PS5, I would be surprised if it doesent have upgrades and maybe 60 fps for PS5.
We are still on that unknown arena of what will Sony do with BC. On PS2 and PS3 that we had full BC with previous titles they didn't do anything, at most it had some better upscaling. After PS3 removed BC Sony started putting remakes and remasters (plus collections).
So what are they doing now? Just put BC and leaves as is so perhaps it will have enhanced fps and perhaps better upscaling? Or are they going to give free patches that improves the game all around? Or are they going to charge 5-10 bucks for the patch (with the option for buying for 60USD only the PS5 version)?
We can only speculate.
But I guess GoW, S-M, TLOU2, DS, GoT and FF VIIR will receive a crossgen treatment to make more sales and also hide the barren wasteland of new titles that usually happens in the first 6 months of console launch.
Its very likely PS5's BC is being done natively. Not via emulation, previous gen hardware, etc. Therefore its possible 8th games could have 9th gen patches. I suspect some games already have 9th gen patches being developed.
Remasters are still going to happen. Patches wont take full advantage of the new specs. Im sure studios will also make more ambitious remasters than simple patches could accomplish.
Will be multiplat if delayed to around PS5 release. Why would they not.
Depends on their BC strategy. If they release the game on both system from the get-go you lose a lot of double dippers. If they give 3 months window and make an enhanced version even with BC they may make additional sales.
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