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Salah satu game yang paling diantisipasi di tahun 2018 ini , pesona yang ditawarkan Rockstar Games untuk game teranyar mereka – Red Dead Redemption 2 memang sulit untuk ditolak. Ada banyak alasan untuk menantikannya, dari sekedar fakta bahwa ia adalah game Rockstar yang punya asosiasi kuat dengan kualitas, fakta bahwa ia adalah satu dari sedikit bertemakan dunia barat liar masa lampau, hingga ketertarikan setelah seri pertamanya yang memang tampil memukau dari segala aspek. Sejauh ini, Red Dead Redemption 2 terlihat memenuhi apa yang Anda inginkan dan harapkan, terutama dari rangkaian trailer dan screenshot yang dirilis selama setahun terakhir ini. Satu hal yang gagal mereka penuhi? Rencana rilis awal.
Sempat ditunda di akhir tahun 2017 untuk musim semi tahun 2018 ini, Rockstar Games kembali mengumumkan penundaan rilis Red Dead Redemption 2. Sebuah berita yang sepertinya, tidak banyak mengejutkan gamer. Bersama dengan segudang screenshot baru yang terlihat begitu fantastis, rilis ini kini lebih dekat ke akhir tahun. Rockstar menyebut bahwa waktu ekstra ini dibutuhkan untuk kian menyempurnakannya. Untuk penundaan ini, mereka minta maaf dan sekaligus berterima kasih untuk gamer yang masih bersabar. Mereka menjamin bahwa penundaan ini akan terasa pantas begitu Anda mencicipi Red Dead Redemption 2 itu sendiri.
Rockstar juga menyebut bahwa mereka akan berbagi beberapa informasi baru dalam beberapa minggu ke depan. Red Dead Redemption 2 kini akan dirilis pada tanggal 26 Oktober 2018 mendatang, untuk Playstation 4 dan Xbox One. Belum ada informasi ataupun kepastian apakah ia akan dirilis untuk PC atau tidak. Can’t wait!
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Rockstar Games is pushing back the long-awaited sequel to 2010’s Red Dead Redemption once more. Red Dead Redemption 2 is now slated for an October 26th release this year, a budge from its first delay to spring 2018.
Rockstar’s announcement was brief and apologetic. “While we had hoped to have the game out sooner, we require a little extra time for polish,” the developer says. “We sincerely thank you for your patience and hope that when you get to play the game, you will agree the wait will have been worth it.” As with the last delay, Rockstar offered up a few new screenshots of the game to soften the news.
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While some bettors were laying money on May as the month when Red Dead Redemption 2, the first full Rockstar game since Grand Theft Auto 5 in 2013, would finally release – after all, the Old-West open-world epic was slated for “Spring 2018” – it will in fact be October 26. Finally.
It’s good news for gamers who’ve long anticipated the sequel to one of the most beloved games of the last decade. But October 26, which is right in the heart of the always-crucial holiday sales window, is bad, bad news for almost every other game publisher. No, Red Dead 2 won’t siphon all games sales, but for the many, many not-as-hardcore gamers who only buy a few games a year, it is likely to cost some other major franchises dearly. Let’s take a look at a swath of the major publishers and how they’re likely to be affected by Red Dead Redemption 2’s late-October arrival.
EA
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Level of Concern: DEFCON-1 EMERGENCY
A new Battlefield game was just confirmed for 2018, and historically that has meant a late October release date. That’s a bad, bad idea this year. DICE has been chasing the Call of Duty dragon for years, and 2016’s Battlefield 1 was the most critically and commercially well-received Battlefield in several years. In other words, Battlefield really gained some ground last time around. Getting in Red Dead’s way – even without knowing what Call of Duty is up to (see below – is a surefire way to destroy a huge chunk of the momentum the franchise has built up.
Activision
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Level of Concern: ASK AGAIN LATER
With Call of Duty in Activision’s stable, the company has always been able to count on a billion or two dollars from the first week of November through the rest of the calendar year on the back of the franchise’s next release from a rotating carousel of three talented game development studios. This year should be Treyarch’s turn. I personally don’t expect them to go back to the Black Ops well, but to instead try something new within the CoD universe. That might be a colossal mistake with Red Dead Redemption 2 launching a week ahead of whatever their game is, but then again, Call of Duty has managed to stand tall against any and all challengers to its release window. It’s going to be very interesting to see what Treyarch announces this Spring.
Bethesda
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Level of Concern: TBD, BUT WARNINGS HAVE BEEN ISSUED
Bethesda has taken a quality-over-quantity approach as it continues to grow and evolve as a games publisher, and as such, there aren’t even any games we can reasonably assume are shipping this holiday. Tango Gameworks (The Evil Within 2), Machinegames (Wolfenstein 2), and Arkane Studios (Dishonored standalone expansion) all churned out titles in Fall 2017, which leaves question marks around the rest of Bethesda’s portfolio.
It will have been three years since Todd Howard’s team shipped a major new release (2015’s Fallout 4), so might they be readying something? If it’s the rumored new IP, that could be bad news for Bethesda – especially under the reasonable assumption that whatever Howard is cooking up is open-world, just like Red Dead. Meanwhile, is id Software almost done with the probably-in-the-works Doom 2? Regardless, anything Bethesda has shipped in Q4 not called Fallout or Elder Scrolls has been steamrolled in recent years, so they’d be wise to stay out of Rockstar’s way.
Square Enix
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Level of Concern: HAVE AN AMBULANCE READY
Anyone who expects Kingdom Hearts 3, a game that actually probably could withstand a Red Dead assault, to ship in 2018, well...I’ve got a bridge to nowhere in Alaska to sell you. The real concern is Shadow of the Tomb Raider. It was unofficially announced in December with the promise that we wouldn’t have to wait long for it once it was properly confirmed. This suggests a 2018 announcement and release. Rise of the Tomb Raider was controversial as a November 2015 timed-Xbox exclusive, and thus Square Enix likely wants to right the franchise’s ship, perception- and sales-wise. If Lara Croft doesn’t swoop in by September, then Square might be digging her grave – unless they put her on ice until early 2019.
2K Games
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Level of Concern: MINIMAL
They don't get as much attention from hardcore gamers, but annual Q4 staples NBA 2K and WWE 2K are absolute gold mines year after year. Those two titles aren't likely to be affected whatsoever by Red Dead 2. The question is, will 2K be shipping anything else this fall? Borderlands 3 has to ship eventually, and the BioShock IP probably won't stay dormant forever. And what the heck is Ken Levine working on anyway? We don't have answers to any of those questions, but if 2K is smart, they'll take their Q4 cash from their pair of sports games, and keep everything else out of Red Dead's way; remember, after all, that 2K and Rockstar are under the same parent company (Take-Two Interactive).
Microsoft
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Level of Concern: *SWALLOWS NERVOUSLY*
Many are taking Microsoft’s silence thus far and vague wording of a 343 community blog post as confirmation that Halo 6 won’t be coming this year. Until I hear otherwise, I look to history, which suggests that, this being the third year in “every third year,” we’re going to get a major Halo game. If so, Microsoft had better ship it in September, a la Halo 3, and get those crucial first-big-game-of-the-holiday-season dollars. If not, they’re going to have something (Forza Horizon 4? Crackdown 3 if it doesn’t make Spring? A major unannounced game we’ll hear about at E3?), and they should be wary of Rockstar. Sure, they have Game Pass, but sending anything, Halo or otherwise, up against Red Dead Redemption 2 is a recipe for first-party disaster. Remember when Red Dead Redemption 1 crushed the fantastic Alan Wake almost single-handedly by releasing at the same time?
Sony
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Level of Concern: RELATIVELY UNAFFECTED
Sony hasn’t had very many major first-party games in Q4s this generation. Instead, they’ve spread their big guns out over the non-holiday months of the year with great success, and filled in the holiday-season gap with marketing deals on major third-party offerings. In 2018, they have an exclusive marketing partnership with...you guessed it: Red Dead Redemption. Sony has played this entire generation so smartly that I don’t expect them to turn stupid now. God of War is out in April, and I’d expect Spider-Man, Detroit, and Days Gone before late October. After all, Sony will treat Red Dead 2 like a first-party release, just as they did for Destiny 1 and 2, Call of Duty, and Star Wars Battlefront.
Nintendo
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Level of Concern: NINTENDO DON’T GIVE A FUUUUUUUUU
Give Nintendo credit: whether it was their near-death Wii U days or their I’m-the-king-of-the-world 2017 with the Switch, they have always marched to the beat of their own drum. Heck, the Switch was announced on the same day Red Dead Redemption 2’s first trailer dropped in October 2016. For all we know, Nintendo will ship Super Smash Bros. Switch on October 26. Nintendo. Does. Not Care. What. Anyone. Else. Is. Doing. And through thick and thin, that strategy has served them just fine.
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