Sony Bend’s Days Gone delayed until April

Sony Bend’s Days Gone delayed until April

Citing a need to shift the game from the crowded February timeframe, Sony’s Bend Studio has decided to delay Days Gone until April 2019.

The delay, the company notes, will let the team further polish the game and space it out from the bonkers February 22 release date. Days Gone has been in development for a while, appearing prominently in Sony’s PlayStation promotions at E3 in 2016 and 2017, before taking a pseudo backseat to Last of Us 2 and other newly announced titles in 2018’s show. It’s a post-apocalyptic zombie/infected game that focused on biker life in the new world and swarms (and swarms) of the monsters.

Though Days Gone is the latest game to be pushed out of the February timeframe, it probably won’t be the last. Anthem and Metro Exodus release on the 22nd, and games like Devil May Cry 5, The Division 2 and Crackdown 3 all release in about week span of each other. Days Gone releases April 26, 2019 (for now).

You can read the full statement below, from Sony’s PlayStation blog:

We want to share a change in release date for this highly anticipated title from Bend Studio. We recently decided to move the release of Days Gone from the crowded February timeframe to April 26, 2019. While the studio is eager to see Days Gone in the hands of fans, Bend Studio will take the opportunity to further polish Days Gone.

As PlayStation fans already know, Days Gone is an open-world action game set in the high-desert of the Pacific Northwest. Traversing harsh landscapes on their drifter bike, players must fight for resources as they attempt to survive broken roads, unpredictable weather, attacks from other human factions, infected wildlife and roaming Freakers — a brutal, dynamic world that is dangerous both day and night.

Source: Sony