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Elden Ring Delay Throws the 2022 Video Game Release Schedule Into Chaos


However, this delay completely changes the game. Just take a look at the current video game release schedule for February 2022:

Dying Light 2 – February 4
Horizon Forbidden West – February 18
Destiny 2: The Witch Queen – February 22
Elden Ring – February 25
Saints Row – February 25

Yes, not only are there five major games set to be released within a few weeks of each other during February 2022 but two of those games are currently scheduled to be released on the same day.

The good people of Twitter have also noticed that February 2022 is looking a little crazy at the moment, and, in the grand tradition of the internet, have come up with some accurate and hilarious responses to this bit of release date insanity.

As that last tweet mentions, it’s incredibly likely that Saints Row will be delayed in response to Elden Ring‘s new release date. At the very least, that certainly seems to be the most logical immediate response to this announcement. Of course, the Saints Row team may be wondering whether or not Elden Ring could get delayed again and whether or not that possibility means that they shouldn’t delay their own game quite yet.

That’s the heart of the problem with the 2022 video game release schedule at the moment. Each potential upcoming delay could just end up pushing that delayed game into the atmosphere of some other major release date. While your guess is as good as ours regarding how “scared” specific studios are to release their major upcoming games so close to other specific games, I can guarantee you that nobody wants to face a “same day” or even “same week” scenario if they can avoid it, and there’s still a lot of room for those scenarios to happen.

That’s where things could get a little grim for gamers. While the prospect of having to choose between so many major games in a short amount of time is a legitimate concern for studios and consumers, the only logical solution to that problem is for more studios to consider delaying their projects into late 2022 or even 2023. Mind you, the state of the industry at the moment and the ways that studios are still battling the effects of developing new games during the Covid-19 pandemic mean that those longer delays may just be inevitable at this point regardless of what the competition chooses to do.





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