JRPG Sci-Fi Adventure Woodsalt Delayed Again To Avoid Cyberpunk 2077

1000 years after disaster on Earth.

So 3020?

@Giygas_95 More like 3016.

I hate that big-headed artstyle. Same that AC.

No fetch quests, no filler that sounds good, hopefully the game is fantastic.

itlooks nice

@Giygas_95 rats... I wanted to say that...

@Bydlak I felt the same way as soon as I saw it and I may have felt differently if it didn’t clash so badly with the style of the trailer which seems to want to make the game seem mysterious and potentially dark.

That's... Fair I suppose. 2077 is huge right now.

WTH? Do they not employ or consult an industry analyst? Launching your small project game on the same day as a AAA release isn't just good for sales, it's a MAJOR positive that factors into the release day of most projects in this space. A major game like Cyberpuck creates social pressure to "play a new game" on that date, because everyone is exciting about that release. You don't want to be the "one guy" in your peer group still playing something old, even if you're not interested in the major release. People who are not going to buy that game actively go looking for things being released on the same day. We all know this guy! The one's who's like "Oh, only sheep buy that major overhyped trash, I bought this cool indy game ...". This is like ... game marketing 101.

Sure, you don't want to release a second AAA game on the same day because then the hype is split, but riding off the hype of a huge new release is not something a project like this should be avoiding. Not to mention that launching alongside 40 other games any week in Dec. is a much better window then launching alone any week in Jan. Your pushing your game back from the highest volume sales month to the second lowest? AAA launches fail in Jan because people just are NOT looking for a new game AFTER all the major Nov / Dec releases, two steam sales, and Christmas so you need million dollar market budgets to get anyone's attention.

Oh wait, I guess it could just be complete BS to distract from the fact that the game a lot of people already paid for isn't ready on time ... again.

Haunter is that you?

Eh.

The bulk of its sales will likely happen on Switch. Cyberpunk is skipping Switch, so Switch-only gamers will be looking for something new to play, especially given the kind of dry holiday lineup.

Instead, the developer chooses to delay it into next year, when the Switch will be exploding with new titles that'll much more directly serve as competition for whatever this is supposed to be.

@Ralizah
I couldn't have nailed it better myself.

@Solomon_Rambling like if anything to coop with your own comment I personally felt like the Switch succeeded at first in part because it released during a dry spell where very little was there to take visibility away from it? Of course BOTW helped but i'd argue re: that dry spell allowed that much more visibility for BotW to shine?

@HeadPirate Those claims are going to be supporting data if you expect people to accept them. The idea that a significant number of people respond to peer pressure through nonconformative purchases, instead of either conforming or ignoring the pressure entirely, sounds like it was extrapolated from your own experience, not derived from data.

My initial reaction was "do they think this game is in competition with Cyberpunk 2077?" but the reasoning makes sense. There will be a lot of media pass devoted to that game next week.

But maybe if they released it near the release date of Cyberpunk they can land themselves on a coveted "hidden gem" list.

"Tired of all the Cyberpunk 2077 hype? Here are 13 games that also came out this week.
"Can't play Cyberpunk on your system? Why not try this other futuristic RPG?"

@Solomon_Rambling

Absolutely! Go to your local university and sign up for a marketing degree! Or just take marketing as a minor in some other BA. Marketing 101 would be a first year (1) major required (01) course which will cover several books over 100 hours or so.

You can do that for almost any topic and I can assure you the absolute first thing you are going to learn is "everything about this run contrary to what you assume"

@JimmySpades

I don't what to say other then ask any single person in marketing "do you market based on the assumption that social pressure causes people to buy things". I mean a "sale" is simply the act of adding social pressure to make a quick buy so that you don't feel stupid about paying "full price" at a later date or you can tell your friends what great value you got. You've never had someone tell you "It was on sale" when explaining why they bought something they don't need? Turns out, that's kinda the point.

Or just ... look at any "brand" thing you own and ask yourself why you bought it.

I am absolutely talking from personal experience ... about an experience common to all social animals, humans included.

Supposedly you can rip through cyberpunk in 20 hours so I think a lot of developers can take a sigh of relief. It won't be the time suck the witcher 3 was.

The ironic twist is that Emcy is... a DJ

The big heads are enough of a turnoff for me to pass. This is an art style that should have been left in the past.

I didn't know what this game was until this article, so now I'll be interested when it releases. That cyberpunk thing can bring awareness to smaller games too so it's a silver lining in a way.