Uncharted 4 Has Been Delayed Again, and We're Not Even Kidding

We should never have joked about this @get2sammyb.

Gives Ratchet & Clank some breathing room.

I like that Crash bandicoot t-shit @get2sammyb

I'm fine with this. Why? Ratchet and Clank. The reason I and many otuers I know bought this box. NOW PROMOTE THE GAME YOU INCOMPETENT PRATS! God Sony infuriates me sometimes because they get so much right but where they fall short everyone is just blind to. I'd be amazed if the game even sells well. At this point I just expect the franchise to be canned for more mature stuff.

While you're at it how about a worldwide release for Ratchet and Clank. I mean hell that's been delayed over a year with over a week between territories release dates. Or is this more corporate BS? Cmon Sony. Pick a story and stick to it.

I know marketing something is hard when it's not called the PS4 or a third party game but at least try. Please? Try and be the bad ass you were with the PS2 and appease everyone at least a little? I want to play on your box but I've put more time into Xenoblade than my PS4 as a whole.

It's good for one reason...plenty of copies of the game being shipped. With a game like this, you know it will become hard to find on day one, and at least this way, they have more time to make more copies...plus, it's only 2x weeks, which isn't that long. When I read the headlines, I thought it was being pushed to the holiday season...glad I was wrong. This, Ratchet And Clank and Zelda U are the ones I'm waiting for, with the last one still unclear on when it will come. I'm also waiting for Sony to announce when NEW HOT SHOTS GOLF will finally get a release date.

Wow....

I'm admittedly not upset about it, because not only does Ratchet & Clank (YAY!!!) and Dark Souls 3 get some space, but the delay itself isn't too bad.

The issue is the sheer amount of times the game has been delayed. They really should have been careful about that. It really shows how bumpy the road for this game has been.

2 weeks isn't that bad I'm guessing its so that they can give space too ratchet and clank

I have no problem with this. Gives me more time to play Ratchet and Clank and Star Fox Zero in April.

Thing is, once May ends I'll have Doom, Uncharted 4 and Mirror's Edge Catalyst all looking at me in the eyes asking "play us".

Smeg

Uh, let's look at all the games releasing (or released) this year before Uncharted 4's launch that I'll be trying to divvy up time among...

Fire Emblem Fates Birthright
Fire Emblem Fates Conqest
Fire Emblem Fates Revelation
Bravely Second
Mario & Luigi Paper Jam
Final Fantasy Explorers
Project X Zone 2
Far Cry Primal
Street Fighter V (not that this accounted for much)
Gravity Rush Remastered
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth
Zelda Twilight Princess HD
Pokken Tournament
Dark Souls 3
Star Fox Zero
Ratchet & Clank
Quantum Break

Uhhhh... so ya. Delay away. By all means do as you will

Well duh. There's no way in hell Naughty Dog is going to have two games this gen the rate they're working. At least it gives Ratchet & Clank a little more time to by itself. However, this absolutely better be the best game Naughty Dog has ever produced with all the crap that has gone on with it.It'll be two and a half years in before we get a new game from ND on the PS4. Utterly ridiculous.

Meh...films get shifted around to accommodate other films quite a lot,its the same for UC4, its been shifted uto accommodate ratchet, darksouls 3...i havent checked but what's releasing in may with uc4?

Damn..

@teknium_

Doom

Yeah, gives me time to finish Ratchet and Clank and Dark Souls 3.
I don't mind.

Sucks, but it ain't that bad. I will be playing a few of those games that @JaxonH has listed in the meantime. Plus, there are some games I need to go back to.(Yakuza 5)

They were afraid of Dark Souls 3!

@BLPs I dont own a Wiiu so i put nog time in it.

Why even cry for 2 weeks anyway people.

@JaxonH OMG you have to wait 2 whole weeks the nerve they have.....

@Gamer83

DELAYSTATION 4

It's sad but not so bad. Compare to the other game we haven't heard anything new for months or even years. Such as Horizon Zero Dawn, Rime, and so on. Just a couple of weeks. It bought me some time to focus on Dragon Quest Builders more.

I'm honestly not that bothered. I've got Dark Souls III to play and hopefully, as some pointed out, this gives Ratchet and Clank a decent sales boost. Yeah it's disappointing, but I'm sure it'll be worth the wait.

@JaxonH great list!

Is it the 1st April? At least I'll have Dark Souls III to keep me entertained.

I guess they want to space out their exclusives. But I'll just place this here cuz I am slightly salty.
Delaystation

That gives me a month to finish dark souls 👍

Well that means they just lost a sale because I will be getting DOOM instead. I know a few of my friends will do the same too.
This will effect sales, maybe not enough to effect Uncharted 4 overall but, it won't do it any favours.

@ShogunRok That's actually the third delay. First it was delayed to March 18th, then April 26th and now May 10th. What a roller-coaster!

I actually preordered the special edition uncharted 4 ps4 bundle so I'm a little bummed about this news.
Sony is clever, very clever. They've been riding that uncharted 4 hype train since E3 2014 and got through some tricky periods. They surely must have known that the game was nowhere near completion. Now that games are starting to pour out from 1st party & 3rd party alike they can take their time & space out their exclusives.

Maybe there are more pieces of artwork they need to replace...

No biggie.

If it was the first delay the 'only two weeks, how will you survive' sarcasm would be valid, but it's been delay after delay after delay and people have a right to be frustrated. Fortunately there is some good in this that Ratchet & Clank gets some time alone, hopefully Sony will at least now give it a modest advertising campaign which would be better than the nothing up to this point.

@Sanquine
I'd have been more p*ssed last April. But with R&C and for Xbox One, Quantum Break, April will be busy (and costly) enough. Then May with Uncharted and Doom will be the samething.

@WARDIE hmmm, if this is going to affect sales it's going to boost them, I think! A worldwide release is always clever! Besides they push away from Dark Souls 3 which is the only, albeit small, competition whilst giving room to Ratchet and Clank! Pretty clever mood if you ask me!
Besides I don't think Sony is scared of DOOM, with all due respect x)

It's two weeks. Two whole weeks. I've taken dumps that have lasted longer than that. So before some people start going insane, let's try and keep things in perspective.

Hmm if that is the real reason for it getting shoved then I am a bit grumpy. If a game needs last minute tinkering, I have no problems as I want the best game possible. If a ready to ship game is delayed because Sony thinks they can make more money by delaying and changing release strategy then I have to ask, why didn't they do this months ago? It was clearly going to be a hit.

Of course, doesn't make any difference to me buying the game. It is my most anticipated release of the year...

Oh well it just gives me more time to play Ratchet and Clank and I've waited this long so two more weeks won't hurt me (much)

Think I'm mirroring the opinions of others when I say two weeks is fine and will give me a chance to play some other great games releasing around that time.

It's not to bad of a delay. But like I said last year I bet all the big games that SONY showed last year(well every company every year it always happens) most will miss this year I bet. I am o.k with it because I got loads still to still play.

I've still to start Uncharted 3, loved 1 and 2 in the collections though. Gives me time to play through 3 and finnish but I know that will probably be done on a weekend so I don't exactly need the extra time to finnish it.

@AhabSpampurse you might want to see a doctor about that

Thank God this isn't an indie game or everyone would demand it for free because of these delays...

actually for me this is good news, gives me more time to ensure i have the money for it

Not that bad, they just want to make a great game and make it available everywhere.

Well that's 5 five days away from my birthday, so it stings a lot less...

But I did not see a third delay coming, at all.

@Flaming_Kaiser
Uh, did you mistakenly respond to me? I distinctly recall saying I don't care, delay away.

But since you seem so defensive, I'll clarify- 2 weeks, 2 months- a delay is a delay. And that's after it already got delayed. So ya, if ppl are upset, you'll understand why.

@Gamer83 I'm with you.. DELAY after delay is unacceptible. Still buy it though because i love uncharted, but i don't get why they didn't delayed it more in the first place..

I can understand Uncharted fans are annoyed but lots of big games (e.g., Zelda, Final Fantasy...) that had a long development process were delayed. The only solution is to announce a release date when development and manufacturing are almost done (one month earlier), and people wouldn't be happy with that. Or to say that it will launch in 2017 and then release it in May 2016, but people wouldn't be prepared to buy it at launch. It's tricky, if you ask me.

@get2sammyb Seems like Sony is getting as bad as nintendo. How long has Zelda U been held off? Oh well, two weeks isn't that bad, and for the game that's being known as the BIGGEST game on the PS4, I'm sure once it comes out, it will dominate the charts and have the PS4 sell out even more!

I'm all for quality, but continuous, MULTIPLE delays are unacceptable. I'll still get the game but it better be DAMN good. It better not crash on me even once.

No problem with a couple of week delay I have complete faith in what ND do so it won't lessen my hype for U4

Would someone please compile a list of PS4 games in the last 2 years with percentage being delayed. Maybe it can all be solved with analytical analysis. Or Delaygate is becoming a marketing standard.

@AhabSpampurse beautifully put

I'm freaken happy they making it a world release so we all can get a chance to play it on day one thanks Sony! 🤘🏿

#ColinWasRight #Again

Two weeks? That's barely a delay. Most delays end up being months or even years. I actually admire Sony for wanting to have a universal release date on possibly the biggest game of the year.

@JaxonH Well since I give you so much grief about games being delayed from before the holidays until after the holidays I'll give you your "dates don't matter" for this 2 week delay. But if I were you I wouldn't bet on SFZ not being delayed as well.

Some people so gave a point though if they were waiting on the bundle to get their PS4, that's 2 weeks without the console. And Sony just put out Yat Greatness Awaits commercial like a week ago. The one without Ratchet and Clank.

Release dates should be something clarified a month or two before release not months to a year plus, will cut down on the salty people moaning.

These games are boring anyways.

@Jazzer94 But then that would cut down on all the people paying the full price months in advance for games, you know, so the digital downloads don't run out of stock.

In this case though, it's more about total BS being more annoying than anything else. Did the head of Sony just realize today - "oh, we don't have a simultaneous worldwide release, maybe we should do that?" That's as believable as the Minecraft people saying last week - "we are delaying Minecraft 1.9 from Feb 25th to Feb 29th so that we can release it on Leap Day."

Oh, and for the record, the game is due out in less than 2 months so - "clarified a month or two before release" - probably wan't going to help this delay any. Or the Minecraft update being delayed 5 days literally 12 hours before it was due. With all the delays happening this gen you would have to say a week or 2 before release, and that just isn't feasible for retailors.

Think we just have to learn to live with salty.

I was not in a rush to get this game so not really an issue will pick it up in the black friday sales

More BS. Another year riddled with delays. Shocking, perhaps.

...I'm still playing Fire Emblem/Digimon CyberSleuth, and in April I'll start Bravely Second. And I think that I won't play Uncharted 4 until 2017.

Release dates should not be announced without sticking to them, and I don't care about the 'extra polishing' arguments, developers these days still seem to find reasons to patch games afterwards anyway. A release date is a deadline, if they can't meet one THEY decided on then it's unprofessional.
I booked the first week off in May because of this and now it's not released until the Tuesday afterwards. I'm cancelling my pre-order and I'll buy it second hand when it's half price instead.

I guess waiting 2 more weeks for a game I pre-ordered and paid for over a year ago isn't that much more of a delay. It doesn't stop it being disappointing though.
Personally I think once a 'date' is 'fixed' and by that I mean with a specific 'day', it should do everything it can to make that date. I don't think a date should be set until they 99.9% confident of making that date and only a major unforeseen circumstance beyond their control should 'delay' it. If that means setting a specific date once the game has gone 'gold' so be it. This is different from saying Q4 2015 or April 2016 as these are 'non'-specific and guideline dates. I think it would help alleviate some of the disappointment of 'delays'

I'll just keep playing Trackmania Turbo until UC4 comes out.

Less than 2 weeks. For a global release. I'm fine with that.

My one hope with this delay and the reason for it, is that the multiplayer servers are up to scratch day one. It's not something I'm personally concerned about, as I'll be playing the single player before I even touch multi. But if it has any DriveClub style issues, people will flip.

@BAMozzy Clearly they can't even do that a couple of months before, so we would pretty much never see any release dates until a few weeks before! It comes back to how important building the hype is; to me personally it isn't but obviously marketing-wise it's a big deal.

@Gamer83 ppfffttt. Ratchet and Clank get a decent campaign? Sony can't market their own damn hardware half the time. ;p

"A rushed game is forever bad, but a delayed game is eventually good."

I guess that just gives me 2 more weeks to play Ratchet & Clank, I'm ok with that.

Now its getting funny I hope they delay it an extra week next month.

Maaaan and I had just booked that day off work, time to switch to may 10th then I guess

So now I will pre order Rachet and Clank.

@BAMozzy I agree. Set a Quarter or month if you are confidant of when it is ready to come out, but to delay and delay again is a poor strategy.

Yeah it's less than two weeks. Calm the frig down.

Its hardly a 'rushed' game after all the 'Delays' already and the only reason for the 'delay' is for a 'global' simultaneous release. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Campaign is finished. I expect its gone through a play test or two as well. I wouldn't be surprised if the MP was all but finished either - just need to stress test servers, see how the Beta performs etc but if it all works well, the game is virtually ready to go gold. The time between Beta and Gold is probably purely for tweaks to the server and/or MP based on the Beta.
The delay is purely Sony - not ND as they want a world wide simultaneous release and maybe this date was the earliest that the manufacturers/distributors of the discs could ship to every part of the world on time to sell.
I obviously want a game that's at least been through quality control at least once and not a 'buggy mess'. No one wants to buy 'that' game! I would rather they said hoping for a 'Q2 2016' or 'April 2016' release than set a date they don't or can't meet - this goes for every game! As soon as a 'specific' date is set, a game should release on that date - if that means finalising the date a month before - so be it!
I know his is only an extra 2 weeks but its also had a number of delays already. Some are easier to take because they didn't have a fixed date. ME: Andromeda for example has been delayed to 2017 but that wasn't as annoying, disappointing etc because it didn't have a fixed date. We still don't have a fixed date on it - 2017 has 365 potential days it could release on - I can't pencil it in to my metaphorical 'diary'. Like I said no-one wants a broken game but some people may book time off work or make other arrangements based around these dates. If you arranged to meet some 'professionals' (like builders to do work on your house, Dr's appointments etc) and then get delay after delay, you would get annoyed too. This can be avoided by NOT setting a date until you are 99.9% certain of making that date!
2 weeks is not a big deal at all but its more the principal. Had they said we are hoping to release in 'April' and then set this date on 10th May, even though principally its still the same, its far less disappointing.

Well it's now coming out a few days after my birthday which is quite nice timing.