Ka-pi96 said:
I would. I'd be massively shocked! They need to actually announce the date a bit in advance, and considering how little we've seen so far I don't think they would even announce the release date until at least E3. |
Naughty Dog doesn't need to do anything of the sort, not like this is common practice for Sony nowadays, I mean just look at Bloodborne and LBP3. Bloodborne had details leaked a bit before E3 this year, then it's coming out in the following Feb next year (that's only 8 months later for a far more Niche game than Uncharted), LBP3 had nothing leaked before E3, was announced at E3 (again this year) and it's coming out next month (that's only around 5 months after tha game was announced).
Sony could show a load of new gameplay at Destination Playstation and release the game in March if it's ready and that's what they wanted, hell TLOU: Remastered was announced for PS4 April 9th 2014, then it released the the 29th of July this year, that's a far less well established franchise than Uncharted. We didn't see anything in the way of even cutscenes until much closer to the release and no proper gameplay until like a week or so before that game game out on PS4.
Uncharted is a well established franchise, past games in the series were announced the year before they were released, this one was announced last November, this November would be a full year without the game's release happening.
If UC4 were to release at the end of May next year, it would be 18 months after the game was first announced.
There's still a little under 7 and a half months until the end of May next year.
BTW from a game marketing POV it's better to launch while you have a big amount of hype for a game than when that hype dies down, because the game's existance would be much fresher in peolpe's minds.
So far we've already had the map teaser video last year and we've seen in-engine footage, that's running on PS4, one big explosive trailer and a stage demo early next year would be plenty to make that game sell like hot cakes, TBH a release date and a few details about the game's setting would be more than enough for fans of the series to lap this game up.








