When you get down to it, this is all Todd Howard's fault.
Remember back in late 2020, when the looming behemoth of Cyberpunk 2077 caused a bunch of other game developers to change their release dates to avoid being steamrollered? It's happening again, sort of: Summerfall Studios, the developer of David Gaider's upcoming musical RPG, announced today that it's delaying the game slightly, from August 3 to August 10, so it doesn't get murdered by Baldur's Gate 3.
"We want everyone to have ample space to check out Stray Gods when it launches," the studio said."Baldur's Gate 3 is hotly anticipated and we want to give our fans room to celebrate Stray Gods."We also want everyone to be able to play on their preferred device at launch. This is a huge undertaking for any team, let alone an indie shipping its first title. This extra week allows us to have performance parity as close as possible, across every platform.
It's a little unusual for a studio to straight-up acknowledge that it's purposefully avoiding a bigger game, but not unprecedented. When Grinding Gear Games paused the release of3.13 endgame expansion, it stated explicitly that"we do not want to put our players in a position of having to choose" between PoE and Cyberpunk 2077—implicitly acknowledging that, for most people, it really wouldn't be much of a choice.
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