Video game delays happen for many reasons. It happens each year. Today we'll look at the games delayed this year and the reasons behind these delays. Most games on this list are to release in 2020, but some have no release date at all.
It's disappointing to have a game you're looking forward to playing delayed, and most need further development. We all know how gamers love games that are honed and polished into something great that keeps us riveted to the screen. Delays usually mean there's more work to put into the game to perfect it before it's released.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Yoshiaki Koizumi stated that they needed to change the release date from 2019 to March 20, 2020. They need time to polish and finish the game.
Conan Chop Chop
This game was an April Fool's joke. However, this joke became a reality. A delay in 2020 gave the developer team time to include multiplayer.
Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course
This game is an expansion for the original Cuphead. In July of 2019, the teaser trailer showed a release date of 2020 rather than 2019. Studio co-director, Chad Moldenauer, said that they want to be sure that the game fits the world of Cuphead and that it is full of surprising moments.
Doom Eternal
Doom Eternal was supposed to release on November 22, 2019. Bethesda and id Software, the game's developers decided to delay until March 20, 2020. The delay, they said, is so that the game lives up to their standards. In the meantime, Doom 64 is available for pre-order on all platforms.
Elite Dangerous: Fleet Carriers
This game was due to release in December 2019. Frontier, the developer, decided to push the release date back so they could spend time fixing bugs and other issues in the base game. They stated that the delay would allow them to make sure the game is ready for them to introduce Fleet Carriers.
Fallout 76: Wastelanders
Fallout 76 was the first of the Fallout games to have an online-only play when it came out in October of 2018. Wastelanders expansion adds human NPCs and companions with branching dialogue options. Bethesda announced that the release wasn't going to be until sometime in the first quarter of 2020. The reason for the delay is to be sure the update is polished and the best it can be.
The Good Life
White Owl Studios' game. The Good Life, a daily life simulator, was supposed to release in late 2019. In July of 2019, White Owl Studios announced the game wouldn't release until Spring 2020. The game needed more work to make sure the finished product meets players' expectations.
Last Oasis
This nomadic survival MMO game was supposed to release in Summer 2019. Then it moved to October 2019. The developer, Donkey Crew, pushed it out again, to 2020. After feedback from beta testers, they decided the game needed more work so that it didn't disappoint on release.
The Last of Us Part 2
February 21, 2020, was the released date for The Last of Us Part 2. The developers at Naughty Dog then announced they needed more time to bring the game up to the Naughty Dog standards. The new release date is for May 29, 2020.>
Psychonauts 2
The game developer Double Fine was acquired by Microsoft earlier this year. With that change, the plans shifted. The 2019 release of Psychonauts became a 2020 release. The develops' blog stated that they knew this was disappointing, but that they had some great supporters that wanted the game to be the best if could be and wouldn't mind waiting.
The Settlers
The Settlers release was Fall 2019. Ubisoft announced along with the delay that there was good news, the game would feature campaign, battle, and multiplayer modes.
Torchlight Frontiers
Thankfully the shutdown of Runic Games wasn't the end of Torchlight Frontiers. Perfect World Entertainment and Echtra Games tool over the work on this game. The original release due sometime in 2019 moved to sometime in 2020.
XIII
Based on a comic from the Eighties, the FPS dates from 2003. It's a bizarre cult classic done in cell shading. It has resurfaced with a remake. XIII was due to release in November 2019. The new release day is for some time in 2020.
