Red Dead Redemption 2 reveal was 20th October last year, teased a couple days before.
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Red Dead Redemption 2 and that 'Fall 2017' release window
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Red Dead Redemption 2 reveal was 20th October last year, teased a couple days before.
ASilentProtagonist
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It's just one of those things were you just know it won't hit the scheduled release date.
May 2018 train.
May 2018 train.
To be fair tho, those games were out not long after their previous release.
Bully 2006, GTA 4 2008, RDR 2010, Max Payne 3 2012, GTA V 2013.
They were putting a new game out every <2 years, delays happen here and there when you have a workload like that especially when all the R* teams help each other out. There has been nothing for 4 years and the games probably been worked on in some form for 7, that's why I think it'll come out this year.
I mean there is the remaster and GTA Online updates, but I doubt that's a large team
3rdamention
Member
Yes, and an incredible track record of not showing gameplay to the public until right up before release...
They don't have a lot of leaky ships at Rockstar...That's why the OP shouldn't be concerned at all that there hasn't been any footage....This is how Rockstar does it...
Yeah, and they're one of the few devs that don't need a long marketing campaign to sell their games.
DryvBy
Member
Blizzard is god-tier then.
And I don't care because both of these companies put out killer games.
We don't know and people saying "2018" don't know more than you and me.
There's still a window for the end of 2017, but if we don't see anything in May (pre-E3 period) or at E3, then we'll know at 99% that is is delayed.
You don't know, you're assuming. (or the meaning of this word has changed)
There's still a window for the end of 2017, but if we don't see anything in May (pre-E3 period) or at E3, then we'll know at 99% that is is delayed.
You don't know, you're assuming. (or the meaning of this word has changed)
sotolongospeaks
Member
I don't want to sound dismissive of anyone who may be expecting a Fall 2017 release date, but when the window was announced last October the first words out of my mouth were "that's getting delayed." The highest profile release I can think of that wasn't delayed in some capacity recently was Resident Evil 7, but that has nothing to do with Rockstar's incredible track record for stringing along launch windows. I'm sure they intend to hit the window, but it's not going to be a surprise when they don't.
I would love nothing more than to be wrong and have the game come out earlier, as long as it's complete. But I'm not exactly optimistic.
I would love nothing more than to be wrong and have the game come out earlier, as long as it's complete. But I'm not exactly optimistic.
McMoneyman
Member
I know that Rockstar does things differently from other developers when it comes to the marketing and trailers. But you'd think we'd get a solid release date soon if it was indeed on it's way in 2017.
Polygonal_Sprite
Gold Member
People who actually believe this is coming out this year are deluded. It will be Spring 2018 at the earliest but probably late 2018. They always do this to build hype and it works.
Lord of Castamere
Member
Yet they didn't do this with Red Dead Redemption, the last game Rockstar San Diego headed, and the one heading this. From my point view, the Jedi are evil.
Inst normal that rockstar does an info blitz in the summer?
Beside if they said the game would be out Tuesday they still would sell 10 million copy's. There really is no need for a long drawn out press run. Look at how they have been doing GtA online features. They release a trailer a week before release.
I would expect Sony to have gameplay at e3 and a game informer cover for June. And that's it until a few weeks before release. They probably have been working on the game over 5 years already.
Beside if they said the game would be out Tuesday they still would sell 10 million copy's. There really is no need for a long drawn out press run. Look at how they have been doing GtA online features. They release a trailer a week before release.
I would expect Sony to have gameplay at e3 and a game informer cover for June. And that's it until a few weeks before release. They probably have been working on the game over 5 years already.
It's coming out Spring 2018. Rockstar would have had the marketing cylinders running wild if it was actually a fall release
Rockstar delaying a game is 2nd nature now. That's why I never believe they first date they give anymore. Alot of people still fall for it too.
RDR1 was delayed as well to the late spring/early summer too iirc
Rockstar delaying a game is 2nd nature now. That's why I never believe they first date they give anymore. Alot of people still fall for it too.
RDR1 was delayed as well to the late spring/early summer too iirc
TetraGenesis
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I sure would love to play RDR2 in fall but, honestly, this year has already been so good and there are already a bounty of promising games coming this fall that I would prefer if RDR2 had more time in the oven and came out strong Spring 2018. Chances are I'll probably get my way with how this usual goes with Rockstar.
Lord of Castamere
Member
That's incorrect. Red Dead Redemption was announced for an April 27, 2010 release date November 2009, a few days before the second Trailer released. It had no other dates or windows prior. It was then delayed 22 days in March, to May 18 2010, for a better time frame.
You're missing quite a few in there. Half actually, there were 6 trailers total. The gameplay trailer in June 2013, the launch trailer in Aug 2013, and the GTA online trailer in Aug 2013 are what you're missing.
TheVisualizer
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With how well GTAV and GTA Online stuff continue to sell I wonder if releasing this year would be a bad business move for Rockstar?
If you are still making money off your whales, target audience and the mainstream who are all likely buy RDR2 too, from a business perspective why not milk that as long as you can?
If you are still making money off your whales, target audience and the mainstream who are all likely buy RDR2 too, from a business perspective why not milk that as long as you can?
The Take Two SEC filing from February 2017 still shows a Fall 2017 release date. That said if it does get pushed, Id bet it would be out by the end of their fiscal year, March 2018. Since they just ended their fiscal year in March 2017, theyll have a full press release which may give details in the next few weeks. Publically owned companies cant be as secretive as privately held companies
.for the shareholders and all
Pizza con salsiccia
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People assuming things when it'd be wiser to wait until E3...
AHA-Lambda
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When was the last time R* bothered with E3?
kraspkibble
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Rockstar won't be at E3 ... as usual. I think the last time they were there was for GTAIII? They don't need it. They can do everything on the newswire.
Lord of Castamere
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2014 when they announced GTA V next gen. R* may not care, but their marketing partner does.
Well I think this year may be different with how they announced partnership with Sony few months ago. Still less than likely to happen though.
kraspkibble
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All I take from it is that Sony might talk about the game during their presentation. Kinda like how they revealed the PS4 version of GTA V.
bryanee
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The GTAV Remaster was revealed in Sony's E3 conference of whatever year that was.
edit - just saw post above.
Hurricane43
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kraspkibble
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still...that was Sony announcing it not Rockstar. Rockstar hasn't appeared there themselves for years.
Another thread where people don't understand how Rockstar markets their games. It's just as likely that there will be a big dump of info in the next several months and that the game is still on time.
Rockstar is not a traditional dev in terms of how they show off their products. Hell, they tend to be very low-key at E3 despite having some huge franchises.
Rockstar is not a traditional dev in terms of how they show off their products. Hell, they tend to be very low-key at E3 despite having some huge franchises.
bonesmccoy
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I think Fall 2017 is still on.
Sony's E3 presentation will end with something about RDR2.
book it
Sony's E3 presentation will end with something about RDR2.
book it
Simo
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Take Two's last investors call said it would release before the end of fiscal 2018, being March 31st 2018, and given this has been cooking since 2012 I'm still hopeful for this fall. October looks likely and open given all the other big releases so far are favoring September and November.
Still, 6 months without a peep on the game since the announcement is frustrating as hell. Lol Take Two's next investors call is in the middle of May so we may hear more just prior to it.
Still, 6 months without a peep on the game since the announcement is frustrating as hell. Lol Take Two's next investors call is in the middle of May so we may hear more just prior to it.
That´s true, and what?
Take two stocks are trading at record highs, apparently investors don´t give a shit about quarterly losses, mostly because those losses represent money invested in new projects, most of them successful proyects
The numbers say that GTA products generated over $650 million in NET revenue in 2016 ......that without a brand new GTA game
He´s not wrong
Interesting. Thank you!
To be fair to Blizzard, even with delays they have a year or so of beta which is fairly open to the public.
Well yeah, those were in his time frame of going dark until 2 or 3 months release. My point was the trailers were coming out at a steady interval from the start.
Thug Waffle
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April 2018 is my guess.
beyond_death
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I would be very surprised if they keep that date. We haven't seen shit and considering their track record, it'll be sometime in 2018 at the earliest.
I think we will see something very soon. The Call of Duty reveal has passed, and Rockstar has implemented a two week bonus xp deal on GTA:Online, which I believe they did before Red Dead Redemption 2's reveal. So the next couple weeks are clear. The reveal trailer was posted on a Thursday, (so I'm crossing my fingers for tomorrow) but we also have the 7th anniversary of Red Dead Redemption's release coming up on May 18th. 7 characters, 7th anniversary? They might play with something like that.
So I'm guessing new info and trailer between now and the 18th, possibly a release date there as well. Then something for Sony's conference since Sony has the marketing deal. I'd like to think gameplay demo, but they're probably more likely to show a short trailer for RDR:Online if they're going all in on it like they have done with GTA, and then that will give the Sony rep an opportunity to talk about early/exclusive online content.
October 2017 release.
So I'm guessing new info and trailer between now and the 18th, possibly a release date there as well. Then something for Sony's conference since Sony has the marketing deal. I'd like to think gameplay demo, but they're probably more likely to show a short trailer for RDR:Online if they're going all in on it like they have done with GTA, and then that will give the Sony rep an opportunity to talk about early/exclusive online content.
October 2017 release.
