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GymratAmarillo on 24 April 2025
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G2ThaUNiT said:
GymratAmarillo said:

My personal opinion about why they are showing the Ghost of Yotei release date now and not wait for their show at the end of May is because now they know GTA6 is going to release at the end of October and they want the extra month of preorders.

This year only has 9 months for them to sell stuff and the 4th one is about to end, clock is ticking. Does this mean they won't release anything in July or August? Funny enough I don't think so but let's see.

We haven't seen a full sequence of gameplay yet, they can show that in their show to sell the game to those who need more reasons before buying, other reasons than Sucker Punch being very good in what they do and Ghost of Tsushima being awesome lol.

Can't be a coincidence that GoY is releasing just 2 weeks after Borderlands 4. There's no way Take-Two would release one of their own large games so close to an even substantially larger game lol. So even if Sony doesn't know GTA 6's exact release date yet, it would be safe to assume it won't be too immediately after B4 releases lol.

Nearly everything shown in GoY so far has been "here's more Ghost of" which is not a bad thing at all and will immediately sell quite a few on the game already. There has to be another SoP soon I imagine with shadow dropping the release date.

My theory is: The game was expected to be a released before October, it could have been July, August, maybe even sooner, before the SoP in February they realized the game wasn't going to be ready in time so they didn't mention it at all when DS2 had its released date revealed just days after and Saros was confirmed for 2026. Now they realize they have to use all the time they have left in this year, put the date of October 2nd and they make the announcement this way because they know whenever TTI pulls the trigger most potential new buyers won't care about anything else.

Sony shadowdropping the date isn't bad but it's weird, if the plan from the beginning was to release the game in that date we would have seen the date in February, if there wasn't an urgency for people to know the date and even more important the fact that preorders star in the first week of May then they should have waited for the SoP they usually have at the end of May. They clearly want the extra month of preorders.

About the space between Borderlands and GTA. I mean Borderlands is already established, one month or month and a half is pretty healthy for a big name and let's be honest whatever number a 15+ year old loved franchise can't sell in the first month will hardly be sold in 2 or 3 months, this isn't people realizing Helldivers 2 isn't a "generic" Sony game, Helldivers is actually a fucking awesome Sony franchise lol. GTA6 is so big it can skip any rules and be a success but it doesn't make sense for TTI to just skip one of the 2 biggest months of the year sales related (November) because of Borderlands (obviously thinking the game will in fact release this year, that still can change) lol.

And of course Ghost of Yotei is more Ghost of, were people expecting something else? It has a brand new protagonist, more civilization, 3 new weapons and a wolf companion, that's what fans should be looking for. This is the second trailer, now they need to show gameplay to seal the deal.

Last edited by GymratAmarillo - on 24 April 2025