That's great news. Now let's hope the story is good and wraps things up nicely. Judging by some of the comments I saw about it yesterday I really wonder about that. But you can never please everyone. Personally I didn't read any spoilers.
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The Last of Us Part II launches on June 19, 2020
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I've worked in retail a huge chunk of my life. People arent going into stores right now to buy physical media.
FF7 released 2 weeks early unplanned in Australia. Did they ruin their relationship with american retailers?
It's not my first playthrough sadly (I played it when it released on PS3) but it's been that long i can't remember much of it.
Yes release dates are decided in 2 hours because of a story leak.
Everyone knows that /s
I'm legitimately thinking of taking some time off for this, but afraid that it's going to get delayed again...
I'm not implying anything, I've had nothing spoiled. I'm just warning others as I've had plenty of things spoiled in Twitch chat.
With the recent delay, really had no reason to believe this game would launch before late august/september. June -August is like no mans land when it comes to game releases let alone high profile ones.
Hard to feel like the leaks didn't play at least some part.
Hard to feel like the leaks didn't play at least some part.
Too bad. After reading the leaks I'm not planning on buying the game anymore. If I do it'll be when it's like £10 on PS5.
The zeitgeist is happening now, and it's bad press and will absolutely turn more people off from picking up the game for full price. THIS IS NOT A COMMENT ON ANY SPOILERS
Edit: see the post directly above this for an example.
The original Last of Us released in June.
The leaks had no impact on the new release date.
Where are the people that said we might have to wait till November? Lmao, insane stuff.
So glad it's coming in June!
So glad it's coming in June!
No chance. Things don't happen that quickly. You don't get all the necessary players, sign deals with retail partners, and come to a final decision in less than 24 hours. Classic case of post hoc fallacy.
And, yes, actually. Naughty Dogs initial announcement of the delay said that they hoped it wouldn't be that long, and thankfully, it isn't. No need for conspiracy there.
No way of knowing what would happen when with COVID-19, so they took a proactive cautious approach. As things turned out, they were able to release it earlier rather than later with the way things developed, with when economies started opening up again, etc. No more to it than that, no need for conspiracies. Just the way things worked out, which is what they were hoping for in the initial announcement.
Not to mention how insulting this whole notion is. Wording it that way, what's the implication supposed to be here? That they never truly cared about COVID-19 at all/the delay wasn't REALLY due to that at all, or that it was about coronavirus, but they care about spoilers and leaks far more than any of that, and rush to undo it because they care more about leaks?
No way, that whole idea is just insulting on multiple levels and just the whole timeline of it makes no sense regardless.
Not comparable at all.
2 weeks early retail in one country isn't the same as over a month early, digital, worldwide while retailers worldwide sit twiddling their thumbs - many of their shops closed anyway - as they watch sales disappear into thin air
I can say I understand this delay has been handled with more force than needed, even if it wasn't related to the whole game being out there now.
A three week delay is why they were cancelling and refunding digital preorders? How many here assumed they'd be playing it in June after they did this?
How do you know for definite though?
I'm sure Jason Schrier will be working his magic right about now.
As has been mentioned countless times in this thread, release dates for your companies biggest game of the past 5/6 years aren't just plucked out of thin air in the space of 24 hours.
The closest you'll get to the leaks affecting this is that it affected a decision to make the announcement a few days earlier than planned. There was no impact on the date they chose for release though.
No. Decisions like these are not made that fast. This is about disc being produced etc.
Doesn't matter whether people are going into stores or not, they're still ordering from retail channels online, hence physical copies of a game like FFVIIR ran out of stock at countless outlets.
Games need to have a release date to be up for pre-order, talk about reading too much into things.
How about the shortages FFVII suffered? You think Sony wants the same with their biggest game ever?
Yussss. So glad I don't have to wait too long trying to dodge spoilers. Very curious if this was coincidence of the leaks or a response to them?
it's been mentioned a ton of times in this very thread, but it was a distribution related issue... just like there were issues with getting FF7R physical copies out to different regions.
They want to make sure that there can be a enough copies out to fill demand to a variety of retailers across different regions for a proper launch.
Movies often release digitally before physical and somehow that relationship remains intact.
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You have a vast misunderstanding of a lot of things.
-Time for disc production
-Time for don-delayed deliveries
-Time for marketing to get back on track
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100% you don't know what you're talking about.
I mean, you don't even know what "indefinite" means.
Wishful thinking from those people, I mean they can wait if they wanna play it on PS5 lol.