So still no confirmation this is actually delayed?
No, and there will not be until next week unless HG/Sony decide to calm the internet down and just reveal it this weekend.
Let me clear something up for everyone still freaking out and not understanding this delay and where this marketing material is coming from and why its confirmation its delayed.
Gamestop gets marketing kits every few weeks occasionally they'll produce a marketing kit like the one right now where a poster has a date on it but they have confirmation the date will be changed after the posters have already been made so stores are told to cover up the said date. These marking materials go up in stores Sunday night after stores close, because of this however someone who got their marketing kit noticed that NMS had clearly been delayed if they were being told to cover up the June release date and posted it to the internet.
That is why every place that carries the game has not updated the release date, no one is suppose to know about this until next week. Likely on Monday Gamestop's in store release database will be updated to whatever month HG/Sony think they'll have it out (or just the start of the quarter they think it'll be out) and likely it'll be changed online everywhere else once Sony/HG confirm the delay on Monday.
I'm sure some would like to ask: "Well why doesn't Sony/HG just tell us if we already know?" Thats because they have a plan to reveal the delay and why on a certain date they could change this but the actual statement may not be ready or they may not want to actually reveal it before they originally intended, games get leaked all of the time and companies generally don't confirm their existence until they are ready for it its the same thing here.
I'm also sure some would like to say: "This doesn't prove anything, you HAVE to wait for official confirmation from Sony/HG!" This I find funny because if you are someone who knows about these kind of things (I worked as an ASM at Gamestop for nearly a decade and have seen numerous delays in the exact same way as NMS is being delayed here it generally just doesn't get the internet to freak out like this) you already understand the games delayed and they just haven't announced it as of yet. As I mentioned above games get revealed early all of the time do we wait for confirmation by those companies before we start ogling all of the leaks? No, we get hyped as fuck.
I get that this is disappointing to a lot of fans and they just don't want to believe it but the posts on places like Gamefaqs and Reddit just make me shake my head in disbelief, people are paranoid as shit because of fake leaks and stuff that even when clear evidence is staring at them in the face they still don't believe it, I mean I get that we've sure as hell had a lot of false leaks this year but when major gaming sites are telling you its delayed and there is evidence to back it up its okay to believe that.
If you want more proof that there is a delay then what I already said then look no further at HG/Sony who have been completely silent about this as has the NMS staff, and they won't say a thing about it until they are ready to confirm its been delayed. They can very well announce it any time now and just get the worst over with but they likely will wait until they originally planned to confirm it next week.
Also just for my own peace of mind: The only way that this is false and they game is not delayed is because of a miscommunication that ended up being told to Gamestop and this would be confirmed by Gamestop likely over the weekend with information for stores to update the date or just remove the coming soon replacement sticker. However, if that was the case Sony and HG would have already denied it being delayed the single fact that they have been radio silent about the whole thing is proof in it of itself.
