At the beginning of the year, I gave you a list of 12 games I thought might not come out in 2022 but would rather see a delay out of the year and into 2023. (Check out that article if you haven’t already seen it) Well, now that the summer update season is well underway, I thought we should do a checkup and see how well my choices are fairing this far into the year.
A Plague Tale: Requiem
Latest News – ASOBO Studio has announced a release date of October 18, 2022.
NOT DELAYED (-1 point)
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
Latest News – Just recently, Ubisoft mentioned during their quarterly financial report the delay of the game until at least fiscal year 2023 (April 2023 – March 2024).
ABSOLUTELY DELAYED (+1 point)
The Callisto Protocol
Latest News – Striking Distance Studios showed up with trailers this summer and has announced a release date of December 2, 2022.
NOT DELAYED (-1 point)
Dead Space
Latest News – EA refined their release window from Q1 2023 to January 27, 2023.
ABSOLUTELY DELAYED (+1 point)
Digimon Survive
Latest News – The game is announced to be releasing very soon on July 29th, 2022.
NOT DELAYED (-1 point)
Hogwarts Legacy
Latest News – Avalanche Software showed up at Sony’s State of Play in March to announce a release window of Holiday 2022.
UNSURE IF DELAYED (0 points)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild sequel
Latest News – another apology from Nintendo means that we will have to wait until 2023 to even get the official title to this game.
ABSOLUTELY DELAYED (+1 point)
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
Latest News – An official release date of September 1, 2022 was announced.
NOT DELAYED (-1 point)
Redfall
Latest News – Bethesda announced that both Redfall & Starfield wouldn’t be arriving until 2023.
ABSOLUTELY DELAYED (+1 point)
Scorn
Latest News – An official release date was announced for October 21, 2022.
NOT DELAYED (-1 point)
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
Latest News – Somehow Rocksteady isn’t finished yet and announced the delay of this game until 2023.
ABSOLUTELY DELAYED (+1 point)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge
Latest News – Not only was I wrong about a delay of this game, but this game is already RELEASED and it is WONDERFUL. Stop reading this article update now and go play it!!
ALREADY OUT AND AVAILABLE (-1 point)
FINAL SCORE = -1 [5 delays, 6 non-delays, 1 vague release window]
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