Evolve Delayed

[Demon_Skeith]

Yet another game won't be making it this fall—publisher 2K Games has delayed their co-op shooter Evolve to February of next year, their parent company Take-Two announced in a financial statement today.

Evolve will now be out on February 10, 2015 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC.

"We primarily decided that the title deserves and should have more time to be polished so it can reach its absolute optimal state before we release it," Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick said on a conference call this afternoon. "Historically, we've always benefitted from giving the creative teams more time to polish their titles. We've never regretted it. It's not a meaningful amount of time; the title is still coming out in the fiscal year. We're really excited about the title. Coming out of E3, where it won best of show, it felt like the right thing to do to make absolutely sure this title could be its very best.

"At the same time, I do believe February is a pretty terrific release window. It's not at all crowded, and we will benefit from the fact that there are a lot of holiday sales of consoles so the install base will be bigger and it should be an open time to release."

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[Shortie]

I guess even though it makes gamers disappointed with games they are looking forward to being pushed back looking at the fact that the game will be some what better than it was going to be if they had kept the release date the same is not a bad thing. I personally would rather wait longer for a game if I know it is going to be made better than get a game and it have many bugs and problems.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Delays are pretty common these days, I wish game companies announce long release dates with doing a sooner announcement than delay.

 

[Lleyn]

There would be a few issue with that. If they had set the release date to February from the start, and then released it in say, November, most gamers would have already planned to get other games, maybe even pre-ordered.

There's also the fact that not everyone will keep up to date with the release dates. If they checked the release date before and it said February, there's a chance they won't know about it being released earlier.

 

[IntoxNitram]

Was somewhat upset when I saw this but if the game is more polished than it otherwise would be I am fine with the delay. Just wish there was a little more to fill the gap.