Following the NA November 4th
release date announcement during Microsoft's E3 media briefing on Monday, Microsoft's VP of Interactive Entertainment Business Chris Lewis has now confirmed that Europe won't be far behind.
There's a little more breadth and diversity to what Sony themselves are offering over the next six months, with Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, Knack 2, Everybody's Golf and GT Sport due to arrive this year — oddly, only Uncharted got to take to the main stage, the others being relegated to trailers and
release date announcements during the pre-show.
Not exact matches
During the latest Nintendo Direct presentation, Nintendo did give a
release date / period for several amiibo in Europe, Japan, and North America, but there was no new
announcement.
So why T - Mobile in its infinite wisdom decided to Tweet about the upcoming arrival of the T - Mobile G - Slate
during today's iPad 2
announcement WITHOUT a
release date or price is beyond me.
However, Adam has clearly stated
during one of the conferences, that the period between the
release date announcement and the launch itself may be very short.
These
release date announcements were made
during NIS America's «2017 Press Event» livestream last night.
In addition, this will be almost a year after the original
release date of fall 2017 made
during the game's official
announcement back in 2016.
If the game is really going to make it out
during the «launch window» it will need a formal
release date announcement soon and will probably take 2 months to get all its copies ready for shipping.
«We'll show the real XV
during the
release date announcement this March.»
As such, if Dying Light 2 was in early development back in 2016, and really started happening
during 2017, we should see an
announcement in 2018 in the Spring or Summer, and
release date later in the year for either 2019 or 2020.
Perhaps Nintendo is waiting to surprise some folks with the
announcement of the Breath of the Wild
release date during the Switch presentation next week, where the launch lineup for Nintendo's hybrid console will likely be announced, along with the official
release date and price.