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PS4 Exclusive Days Gone Release Date Possibly Leaked Through Official YouTube Channel

Is this a hint at the official release date for the game?

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crazychris41242553d ago

Probably a place holder, highly doubt they would release on Dec 29

nX2553d ago

Of course it's a place holder but simpletons around the world still don't understand how these work so we get these kind of articles approved every other week...

_-EDMIX-_2552d ago

😂😂😂

Be like " December confirmed"

BiggCMan2552d ago

First of all, there's no reason to be rude and insulting by calling people names. Only shows your own lack of maturity. Second, placeholders come from retailers such as Amazon or Gamestop, not from official channels like the actual PlayStation Youtube channel. So get your own facts right before acting smart. The video was also removed immediately, adding to the suspicion a bit more.

vallencer2552d ago (Edited 2552d ago )

I worked at GS for years and placeholder dates were always the 30th or 31st with some being the 1st. Plus the 29th is a Friday so it isn't too far fetched.

Edit: Also releasing after Xmas isn't such a bad idea. Lots of people get money and gift cards to buy things with.

BlackTar1872551d ago

it's actually pretty nuts people don't understand it yet.

DialgaMarine2551d ago

True, but typical place holders would be Dec 31st, but either way it would still mean a 2017 release, which is kindof odd seeing as that's very close and yet it didn't even get a window mention at E3. Who knows? Fingers crossed.

Also, just for shits and giggles, Dec 29 does fall on a Friday, which is always a possible day for a game launch,.

letsa_go2551d ago

lol BiggCMan took that personally, I wonder if he wrote the article?

IamTylerDurden12551d ago

Biggcman

No. Just no. They aren't releasing on Dec 29 it makes no sense. What was the last big game to release on Dec 29? Sillyness.

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Crazyglues2551d ago

Place Holder.... Games do not release on DEC. 29 That's a Friday people, a PlayStation Exclusive is going to release on a Tuesday, the day the PSN Store updates...

Overload2553d ago

From what I've heard from people who have played it, is that it feels done. I doubt Dec. 29th is the date, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's early 2018 which they would announce at Gamescom or PSX.

CP_Company2553d ago (Edited 2553d ago )

in early 2018 coming God Of War,later RDR 2,and there are some others like Far Cry 5.it could be coming early 2018 if God Of War comes in February and RDR 2 in May,so they could squeeze in but i doubt that because also Yakuza 6 is coming early 2018.maybe August or September most likely.we will see,there are still 3 big shows for Sony.

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Ceaser98573612551d ago (Edited 2551d ago )

RDR2 should be around Sep 2018.. March should be for GOW.. FC5 is end of Feb 2018.
@ Channel
R* pushed RDR2 to 2018..

DarXyde2552d ago

Releasing in late December would definitely be weird. Early December to capitalize on the Christmas season would make sense and I'm pretty sure New Years presents aren't a thing.

Early next year definitely makes the best sense-- worked out quite well this year. I really like how Sony have their exclusive games set up: taking advantage of tax season rather than the holidays. Gives third party partners breathing room as Sony also gives their own titles the same.

October is generally when we see the last of their big exclusives hit, if not the straggler in early December. I agree we'll have to wait until next year. Works for me, still haven't finished a couple of games I bought recently.

Seraphim2551d ago

early December is a bad time considering all the deals and cheap games going up on for sale before Christmas. You never see many if any games really releasing after November anymore & certainly not big titles like Days Gone. Plus there's Destiny 2 early September, CoDs annually title, AC, Sonys' own GT Sport and whatever else. At best, if not in Oct-Nov it would likely be Jan-Feb w/ GoW likely falling mid-late March. idk if it's Christmas sales or the annual juggernaughts but Feb-April seem to be the new hot spot for releases.

Also, let's not forget the business side of this. Sony finds a release window based off not only what they have in the works but what else is releasing, released and upcoming. Obviously they didn't really give any dates because there's a lot to consider still not to mention they want to make sure these games are going to hit their date once in place. The industry as a whole seems to be doing a better job or trying to hold off on announcing dates for games who's dates would be very much subject to change.

Dirtnapstor2552d ago

I'm sure we'll fine out more with PAX. It'd be sweet if DG got released this year. If it was truly the Friday after Christmas, and you got $$$ for Christmas....

Ceaser98573612552d ago (Edited 2552d ago )

early 2018 is GOW... So Days gone could be a Jan 2018... No third party games are around this period... I am expecting May 2018 to be Spiderman... and Aug 2018 being for Detroit

CP_Company2552d ago

you don't read what others wrote? Yakuza 6 coming early 2018.Far Cry coming February,and those guys have a marketing deal with Sony.and on top of that God of War is coming.there is no place for Days Gone.it is new franchise,they need a room to breath properly.

IamTylerDurden12551d ago

Days Gone looks great, but i'm surprised that Nex Machina isn't getting more pub. It releases on Tuesday and feels like Resogun 2, but 3 dimensional.

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Relientk772553d ago

Do people seriously not know what a placeholder is lol

GamesMaster19822552d ago

There is no way in hell this game is coming this year. I highly doubt next year either to be honest.

Fishy Fingers2552d ago

If it had a release date they'd of announced it at E3.

phoenixwing2552d ago

My feeling is that sony was going to announce it if msoft had a surprise game or something coming this year and since they don't they're gonna polish it a little more and release it later

Fishy Fingers2552d ago

E3 conferences are planned and rehearsed over and over, they don't have the luxury of reacting to something that may or may not happen a few days beforehand.

house2552d ago

its not uncommon for things to be changed last minute at e3. with that being said i do agree the bigger things stay no matter what.

zivtheawesome2551d ago

Sony actually said that they ain't gonna reveal release dates at E3 anymore because they fear they'll miss it so instead they give a release window they confident they'll reach (Horizon DLC at fall 2017, GOW at early 2018).

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Days Gone Director Says Bend's Project Costs Over $250M; Says PS Co-CEO Doesn't Want 2 Zombies Games

Days Gone director claims Sony has already poured in at least a $250M in Bend's project; says Days Gone sold more than Death Stranding.

shinoff218312d ago

Well that sucks. Seems they want more online trash. I'd rather of had the sequel if it was single player

MrNinosan11d ago

What online trash games did PS Studios release last 10 years?

Notellin11d ago

The past has nothing to do with the future. This is such a terrible argument. Everyone knows about their current live service push.

_SilverHawk_11d ago

It's so tragic what happened to days gone. It is such an amazing game but bandwagoners trashed it and it underperformed in it's launch year. Days gone is the best open world zombie game released in the past five years. I was recently playing it on pc and I'm still amazed by it.

Games are very expensive to make and it seems like it's normal for a AAA game to cost over a quarter billion to make so if a quality game like days gone greatly underperforms then people shouldn't be upset when they see a lot of GAAS. I still remember a lot of bandwagoners calling days gone trash but years later it's now amazing when it's considered a failure by sony.

If a game isn't the best thing seen since hats with pockets then a lot of gamers who haven't played it automatically calls it rubbish and whoever made it should be incarcerated

Cacabunga11d ago (Edited 11d ago )

Co CEO prefers gamers to boycott.. so be it. I’ll never buy a gaas.
Just imagine buying a game you cannot replay in some years.. this shit must stop.

Days Gone did zombies in a very original way. The story was also so engaging. You actually only meet Zombie hordes later in the game. There are many more enemy groups to deal with.

MrNinosan11d ago

@Notelin
I am one of the few who bought Days Gone on release day and loved it completely.
However, "more online trash" is phrased like Sony has put out alot of trash online games.
We got what, 2 games? Helldivers 2 and GT7, 2 of the most sold Playstation games where both is loved by millions.

You, me and especially shinoff has no idea if Fairgames, Marathon and Concord will be trash.

Just because we (as in you and me) don't love or support online games, doesn't mean millions of other do.

And we don't know what Bend Studio is working with? We don't know if they're forced to make a online game or another amazing single player experience.

The only thing we do know is that it's not Days Gone, sadly due to poor sales the first 6 months.

shinoff218311d ago (Edited 11d ago )

More online trash wasmt meant how insee it comes across. I should've worded it different I was meaning the focus they currently have on it.

Anything online is online trash to me. How long did naughty dog spend on that dumba last of us multiplayer, how about Concord, or even the other couple we hear about. I fk with Sony because rpgs and their 1st party single player games. Been like that for years. I hate seeing them waste time, money, and talent on trash. I understand bot every game is gonna be for me but this focus they've seem to had on multiplayer is extremely disheartening. Even at the state of play the only things I was really feeling were Astrobot and silent hill 2 and I'm content with that, not everything is for me. It's just the online focus I hate. Ms bought up 3 to 4 wrpgs developers, Sony just ignores rpgs 1st party wise.

And a days gone 2 would've been much better then whatever online sht bend is working on. I do know sometimes I get very idk emotional. I do need to work on toning that down a bit lol

SimpleDad10d ago

Ammm let's see... That All-stars, Foamstars, Babilon 5 wass gaas...
Concord... can wait to play that...Marathon uuuu... Last of them gaas... U
Horizon Zero dawn has a project that leaked as a Fortnite lookalike.

They bought Destiny that is a dead gaas...people love ti.

Helldivers 2 was luck.

Jimbo was all in and pushed Sony single player games 5 years behind.

Spiderman gaas was cancelled... I mean every 1st party studio was doing gaas.

Bend had to pitch a gaas game... Open world coop something

I can't remember more... Of that crap.

tay870110d ago

@simpledad. Destiny 2 isn't a dead game. Its the number 5 most played game on steam. I dont play it, but alot of people do.

MrNinosan10d ago

@SimpleDad
You failed to mention a single PS Studios game that has been released last 10 years.
Either your reading skills are crap or you think Sony own every studio in the world.

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just_looken10d ago

I rolled my eyes at concord not only was it just yet another cookie cutter hero shooter but that qucik look for the hero select.

Already has a free section then paid section along with a they/them she/her dei crap top right.

Nothing like a day off of work to fire up concord to read about the new characters sexual identity and or preference then a paywall do you want o buy this character shit like no i just want to shoot my gun have fun.

-Foxtrot12d ago

It would be a shame if it was true that Hermen never gave the franchise a chance simply because he didn't like it and they already had a "Zombie" game with TLOU.

NaughtyDog are most likely moving onto a new IP next so it would have been the perfect time to do it.

ThinkThink11d ago

Here's where xbox steps in and releases state of decay 3 day and date on ps5.

shinoff218311d ago

I mean it's not out of the realm of possibility at this point.

Grilla11d ago

Days gone 2 was canceled before Herman was in charge. That happened like 4 years ago.

vfl52311d ago

4 years ago he was head of Playstation Studios. He would've probably had a hand in the cancelation.

Notellin11d ago

Man two seconds of research could have saved you from this comment. Amazing work Grilla you fit in with the uniformed N4G community who speaks before verifying anything that they say.

Redemption-6411d ago

Maybe encourage people to buy the game at full price and not when it's heavily discounted or go on plus. If this game had sold well when it was full priced a sequel would have been in the works. They made a single-player game that most people didn't support until they dropped the price.

Cacabunga11d ago

The guy’s just a moron.. he should have stayed within game development. His choices will have a terrible impact on the brand in the long run.

tay870111d ago (Edited 11d ago )

Dude is pretty pathetic. Sounds like a guy who's girl left him for someone better. Always talking about days gone sequel that never was, even though he is no longer at bend and hasnt been for a while. I for one am not upset about the lack of a sequel. It is one of the worst 1st party games in recent memory. Completely jank, played like an xbox game. The only redeeming quality was the hordes.

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excaliburps11d ago

Yep. Kind of weird since it wasn't a sales flop, no?

I know we have to take what Ross says with a grain of salt since we're hearing just one side of the story, but even so, the game wasn't bad at all. Heck, it's my brother's favorite last-gen game from what I recall.

The amount of zombies on screen, imagine that with the PS5 and SSD? That would be insanely fun!

Grilla11d ago

Most copies were sold on sale. Not enough ppl bought it at full price. I paid 20$ for it 6 -7 months after release.

Notellin11d ago (Edited 11d ago )

Yeah we should never believe the creators side until we hear the corporate/big business side as history has shown we should always believe billion dollar corporations.

What a bootlicker statement.

derek11d ago

@Notellin, of course you'll believe an embittered ex-employee with an axe to grind because it's evil Sony he's complaining about. You guys act like days gone was this huge success and somehow Sony hates easy money a sequel would have generated. The game was mid and so was the response to it. They're still supporting the developer who is making a new ip that could be great.

shinoff218311d ago

Days gone was fantastic. I bought day one but didn't get around to it for months. When I finally did I was pissed at myself for waiting so long lol

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P_Bomb11d ago

Well I don’t want 10 live service games, but they have no problem doing that lol. Ugh.

CrimsonWing6911d ago (Edited 11d ago )

Oh great so we only get what the big wigs want… y’know, the people that really have their fingers on the pulse of what their consumers want. Faaaaantastic!

rippermcrip11d ago

Well consider they know the sales... they do know what the consumer wants.

It sold shit.

-Foxtrot11d ago (Edited 11d ago )

But if it’s true what this guy says it sold better than Death Stranding

Yet that got a sequel and Kojima aside out of them both DS didn’t really NEED a sequel compared to Days Gone which ended on such a cliff hanger twist.

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Days Gone – Five Years Later

How does Bend Studio's underrated open-world survival title hold up after all these years, especially following its updates?

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GhostScholar18d ago

One of my favorite games of all time. Hate that ain’t didn’t allow a sequel.

Cacabunga18d ago

This MUST have a sequel..
Enough said

GhostScholar18d ago

Sony didn’t green light a sequel and I hate it.

Psychonaut8518d ago

Yeah the director is still bitching about it 5 years later. Lol. It does suck though. Definitely plenty of room to do more with the IP.

got_dam18d ago

I'm with you on that. I lived in the bend area for a long time and it was nice to see that part of the country in a game. As noah Gervais said (in his negative review that I don't agree with mostly) "day gone is more oregon than far cry 5 was Montana, and far cry 5 was pretty damn Montana."

YourMommySpoils17d ago

I really enjoyed it too. Kept me coming back for more and the platinum.

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SimpleSlave18d ago

The Motorcycle was actually fun and the idea and effects of the Hordes was actually great. Sadly, the zombies in the horde have no health bar so they drop like flies, even if you hit them like once or twice on the knee. Also, no Head Shot Only Mode in another Zombie game.

In the end, it was a very generic game, with terrible mission design and cookie cutter everything. And with terrible writing and terrible written characters, the whole thing was just an Asylum level bad. This was just Sons of Anarchy at home with Zombies but somehow worst.

But again, the motorcycle was fun though...

Tacoboto18d ago

Best motorcycle gameplay of last gen!

The writing though really was the worst. Deacon was one-note and overly bitter, everyone else was a trope. You could cut off the first 30-40 hours of the game and then it would actually be a great game.

GhostScholar17d ago

I couldn’t disagree more about the writing. I thought deacon, his wife, and his friend were all great. It’s one of my favorite open worlds ever to explore too. I had no interest in the game at launch but my friend loved it and kept urging me to play it and once I started I couldn’t put it down. One of my favorite platinums.

shinoff218318d ago

I really enjoyed it. Shame it never got a sequel. Unless that sequel was online focused.

Phantom6818d ago

Fixed long time ago. Shame there i no sequel

Psychonaut8518d ago

Need to play this again with the 60FPS update. Haven’t gone back to it since I beat it at launch. Definitely underrated, just sucks that people bounced off of it because the first several hours are a little bit of a slog. It’s worth it though.

GhostScholar17d ago

They bounced off of it because all anyone cares about is the last of us. It’s better in every way to the last of us for me personally. I enjoyed the first last of us game, but the second one was atrocious

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Days Gone, 5 Years Later

Almost unbelievably, Days Gone has just turned 5 years old after launching on April 26th, 2019. What's changed in that time?

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mkis00747d ago

Such a good game to me. Crazy how different peoples opinions can get.

Crows9047d ago (Edited 47d ago )

For me it wasn't that surprising. There was some bad press before. There's also the matter and element of a person's disposition when trying out a certain game. Sometimes you're just not really into the type of game that you're playing so you put it down because you don't like it. Not necessarily because it's a bad game but because you're just not up for something like this. Reviewers have a tough because no matter what they feel like playing they've got to play what's releasing.

I have many times gone back to games that I put down only to thoroughly enjoy them the second time around because either there wasn't another exciting game coming out around the same time or I just had no other games to play and haven't played that type of game in a while. I'm not the type of person that can just play a souls game through all this iterations one after the other without getting burnt out on the formula.

In my opinion this game was great from the start. Some bugs here and there but nothing worse than the most AAA releases during the same time after and before. All I did was wait one week and I had a phenomenal time with the game. No other zombie survival game comes close to how I thoroughly enjoyed this one

Cacabunga46d ago (Edited 46d ago )

game is outstanding. I was addicted to it until I got that platinum to pop.

i understand some people who find it thin in terms of content in comparison to RDR2 which released 1 year before it but DG has very fresh good ideas.

it has been my favorite PS4 game......until I played RDR2.
PS have one more gem in their crazy catalogue of exclusives...

-Foxtrot47d ago (Edited 47d ago )

Yeah I thought it was pretty decent, it had its flaws but for their first big console single player open world game it's a solid 8/10.

I have never seen an AAA "zombie" game feature as many enemies as the horde sections did, you really had to think about your surroundings and plan carefully.

I feel journalists had an issue with this game from the moment it was announced, they really didn't like the Biker characters and the overall Biker gang theme. If they were anything else I feel it would have had a better chance or at least they'd overlook some of the flaws like they do for certain other open world games. They don't mind waiting weeks or months for a patch knowing its coming but a game that has it Day 1 it's suddenly a big no no? Yeah this was one of those moments that showed you how they cherry pick who to suddenly decide to go harsh on when they want to.

mkis00747d ago

Ill never forget the reviewer who tried to claim the "ride me like you ride your bike" line was anything but a joke...they (sarah and deacon) explicitly call it a joke and the reviewer still misinformed the reader about it as if it was a literal thing.

Michiel198947d ago

the score on metacritic is 71 from journos, its 9 points lower than your review so stop making stuff up. They didn't hate it from the start, they on average just liked it slightly less than you.

-Foxtrot47d ago (Edited 47d ago )

@Michiel1989

I'm not making anything up, they held a grudge against it and made stuff up themselves like mkis007 has just pointed out. That 71 on Metacritic is why it didn't get a sequel.

Anyway how can I make anything up when I didn't even mention metacritic in my original post?

Michiel198946d ago

@fox it was maybe 2 outlets that made a stupid woke statement, not every journo. Not even close.
I think the director himself crying about that the game should have gotten better reviews might have had something to do with not getting a sequel. That was just a pathetic display on his part.

anast46d ago

Most reviewers are a certain type of person that won't allow them to explore those types of themes.

PhillyDonJawn46d ago (Edited 46d ago )

Nah the game is 7. The only good thing you even said about it was the horde/enemy count. If that's the only positive it's not an 8 lol

Crows9046d ago

As you can see...some are so blind because of fanboyism that they honestly can't see the writing on the wall. It wasn't just 1 or 2 reviewers...it was a lot of them. Some more direct than others ..just like with stellar blade.

They all coordinate with each other...especially evident seeing as they start submitting the same type of article over the exact same issues within 20 minutes of each other or nearly the same time..that's not a coincidence.

We all know it happened...some are just oblivious so feel free to ignore them.

BISHOP-BRASIL46d ago

Why are we pretending there's some huge difference between a 7 and a 8, don't both of them mean "above average/good"? On a 5 star system they would both be 4 stars, no? Heck, I simply put games on either of 3 cateorgies, it's either bad (don't play), good (play once if you can), great (make the effort to play and keep it), it's enough for me to make a logical decision or to recomend a game to someone or not... I'd say Days Gone was something between good and great but closer to good, so 7 sound fair to me anyway.

At the end of the day the reviews, be it journalists or users, on average or a punctual review, decimal or star based or whatever measuring stick we get... Reviews simply weren't the reason the game didn't get a sequel, it's performance on the market was. Reviews could say it was dogshit or the second coming, it wouldn't make a difference, or at the very least they are not the deciding factor, the game selling under Sony's expectations was the real issue... Heck, I'm sure the studio's issues and the lead director running his mouth figured way higher on the list of reasons for not making a sequel than any review ever was.

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Babadook746d ago (Edited 46d ago )

I concur. It’s main problem of frame rate slowdown is gone with a ps5.

Leeroyw47d ago

Second act of that game far surpassed the first. Which is why people felt it didn't live up to the hype of the trailers. Personally I loved it. But it was a slog to get your bike and weapons up to skill.

Pyrofire9546d ago

I hear it's big enough that it could have just been 2 games. Maybe that would have worked out better, with some changes to make it fit that mold better. Idk, I haven't played it much.

mkis00746d ago (Edited 46d ago )

Just the first section was a slog...but I never found it boring if that can make sense. You don't have much of an arsenal until after about 6 hours if memory serves. Some more half-step bike upgrades and a few more weapons could have filled the gaps.

Inverno47d ago

Was gonna post a brick wall of text but I'll keep it short. Pardon my French but f**k the media for the hate they gave this game. If you have a PC to play it on you can get it as low as 10 bucks, and if you have a PS then it's a no brainer. Totally worth a play.

phatak47d ago (Edited 47d ago )

I don't even comment here often but had to for this game, I still stand by my opinion that this was one of the top 10 games of the ps4 generation, I preferred days gone over god of war, horizon and last of us 2, the launch version was definitely piss poor and that messed up the reviews for this game, honestly some games deserve a re-review or post patch review as the metacritic score stays forever but the reality is its not even the same game anymore, the ps5 patch is amazing and the pc version which I play on nowadays is one of the best looking games ever, complete shame that we wont get a sequel, god of war got one, horizon got one, last of us got one, spider man got one,ghosts of tshushima about to get one but this game wont get one, sucks to be honest.

Ps3/360 era had some hidden underated games for me it was shadows of the damned, alice madness returns that deserved more sales and a sequel/ higher scores, and similarly for the ps4 era it was days gone, and dying light 1 that deserved much more love, dying light atleast got a sequel, everyone needs to play this game once and judge for themselves, for me its officially the most underrated game of the ps4 era, go play it if you haven't.

andy8547d ago

Awesome game. Just bought it for my laptop last week

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