In Hong Kong today there was an Xbox Fan Festival which I have covered in more detail here.
At the event Microsoft mentioned that there are lots of other games and showed the below slide with the pictures of each game. On the slide there is the image for Dark Souls 3 and Microsoft confirmed that all the games on this slide will be out before Chinese new year.
The new year is February 8th, therefore we can ascertain that Dark Souls 3 should release before February 8th 2016.
EDIT:
At the event Microsoft mentioned that there are lots of other games and showed the below slide with the pictures of each game. On the slide there is the image for Dark Souls 3 and Microsoft confirmed that all the games on this slide will be out before Chinese new year.
The new year is February 8th, therefore we can ascertain that Dark Souls 3 should release before February 8th 2016.
EDIT:
Does that include The Division, a game due March 6 in the west? That perhaps gives this some doubt for me.
GW2 is slated for Spring 2016 too.
Sometime after the division.
Oh good point.
Well they did say all those games on that slide will launch before Feb 8th, maybe Microsoft are wrong?