| Ryuu96 said: Starfield date is so close, which will it be, early or late 2023. 😬 I think they'll announce the event tomorrow and it will air at the end of the week, unlikely to be announcing anything today, if not in 15 minutes then they won't be announcing anything on Monday. |
They had a chance to announce a Starfield delay last week and didn't, instead stating that it was still on schedule for a 1st half release. So I'm hopeful that it is still a 1st half game. With Redfall being in May supposedly, the only question now should be "is Starfield on April 12 for International Day of Human Spaceflight, or June 30 for Asteroid Day". Those are the only 2 suitable space based dates remaining in the 1st half if they want a space based meme release date.
I see no reason why Starfield would be delayed into 2nd half, supposedly it has been fully playable from start to finish since November 2021, and was said to be pretty much content complete in June 2022 with just optimization and bug fixes remaining. The delay was supposed to be simply to give them more time to fix bugs and optimize as the 5 months between June 2022 and November 2022 weren't going to be enough to get the game in the state they wanted it to be in without huge amounts of crunch. But surely 10 or 12 months of bug fixing and optimization between June 2022 and April or June 2023 will be enough time. The only good reason to delay it would be on Microsoft's part, with them thinking it will move more Xbox hardware as a Holiday 2023 release. But I'm not sure that is a good idea, I think it will have more impact boosting Q2 hardware sales on launch, and then again boosting sales with a good Black Friday discount and possible Holiday bundle for the game later in 2023.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 09 January 2023
