We review the current state of the calendar after recent announcements about Final Fantasy VII Remake and Marvel’s Avengers, from Square Enix.
After several days of tranquility in the information plane, the video game industry reminded us that 2020 is going to be a hectic year today; not only for the arrival of Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 to the market but for all the titles that will be put on sale before that time. Final Fantasy VII Remake and Marvel’s Avengers have stirred the waters with their respective delays.
Because we already saw it in the most anticipated videogame agenda for the year 2020: the calendar was very tight and all the publishers want to be on the shelves of the stores in the key weeks of the season. The end of this fiscal year is approaching and there are dozens, perhaps hundreds, of the reasons that can lead a company to delay its games, not just development problems.
The case of Square Enix with these two expected productions is due, at least officially, to the need to polish the game to achieve the desired quality standards for an AAA in this category. From March 3 we pass to April 10. Not that April was going to be a quiet month, precisely.
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Minutes later it was the name of Marvel’s Avengers that opened the video game magazines; this time to announce a much greater interval than the original JRPG of the first PlayStation: from May 15 to September 4. That summer will serve Crystal Dynamics to "offer a campaign with an original story, an attractive cooperative mode and enough content to cover the coming years." They do not want the game to feel short or insufficient.
Chance or not, DOOM Eternal warned its own and strangers that they are no longer late, that March was and continues to be the appointment (initially it was going to be launched in November 2019, but it was also delayed), and they surprised us with a new trailer that we can think of many superlative adjectives to define it. The appointment begins on March 20.
As also with Resident Evil 3 Remake. Capcom has said it several times: the announcement of the game was made to beg because they wanted to make sure everything was channeled when they revealed it. His new trailer, with Raccoon City, Nemesis and the hunters looking better than ever, anticipates that on April 3, thousands of fans will cancel all their plans for that weekend. It is not bluffing.
Resident Evil 3 Remake
Will the domino effect occur? That's the way things are
However, the gap that each game leaves free when it is delayed inevitably implies that its place becomes news in another month of the calendar. March breathes, but April drowns. Half-Life: Alyx will be the appetizer for those who can afford to know the new Valve; from there, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Nioh 2, Fairy Tail, Animal Crossing New Horizons, DOOM Eternal, One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4, Persona 5 Royal and Bleeding Edge.
- Half-Life: Alyx (Xbox One and PC): March 1
- Pokémon Mysterious World: DX Rescue Team (Nintendo Switch): March 6
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Xbox One and PC): March 11
- Nioh 2 (PS4): March 13
- Fairy Tail (PS4, PC, Nintendo Switch): March 19
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo Switch): March 20
- DOOM Eternal (Xbox One, PS4 and PC; Switch later): March 20
- Bleeding Edge (Xbox One and PC): March 20
- One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 (PS4, PC, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One): March 27
- Persona 5 Royal (PS4): March 31
In April, Holy Week will be a headache for our portfolios. The arrival of Final Fantasy VII Remake in the fourth month of the season affects, without a doubt, the titles that are released on surrounding dates. Market studies will emerge these days to assess whether it is worthwhile to stand up to Cloud and company or if, on the contrary, the month of May or June is more conducive to not go wrong. This is the agenda:
- Resident Evil 3: Remake (PS4, Xbox One and PC): April 3
- Final Fantasy VII Remake (PS4): April 10
- Cyberpunk 2077 (Xbox One, PC and PS4): April 16
- Predator: Hunting Grounds (PS4 and PC): April 24
- Trials of Mana (PS4, Nintendo Switch and PC): April 24
- Minecraft: Dungeons (Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch and PS4): April
All this without taking into account that Nintendo has its first semester scheduled until March 2020. We know other titles, still undated, such as Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition, but for the past five years the Japanese company has used to have a Nintendo Direct facing what is to come in these first months of the year, including releases with just a couple of months seen. We have no information on a possible Nintendo Direct for the next few weeks, it must be said.
What is certain is that Resident Evil 3: Remake, Final Fantasy VII: Remake and Cyberpunk 2077 will come out in a matter of two weeks, and not all fans of all three games will have the necessary savings to get this trident one after another. CD Projekt RED has not ruled on this, but in May he expects The Last of Us: Part II, which has no intention of moving from there. And you, do you think there will be more delays?
The information ends here, it is now your turn to comment.
