Square Enix and IO Interactive have just announced that the release date of HITMAN has been pushed back to March 2016. As the companies noted, these extra months will give the development team enough time to add more content to the game.
As IO Interactive stated:
“We want to make absolutely sure you all get the best possible experience when you join, so we’ve made the difficult decision to move the initial release date to March 2016. These few extra months will mean we can add more to the launch content of the game, more than we had originally planned, and then follow with a tighter frequency of updates, which ultimately will create a better game for everyone. And in the end, that’s what we’re all looking for.”
HITMAN will follow an early access program, meaning that the base game will be released in March 2016 and new content will be added via updates.
IO Interactive has also released a comparison image between Hitman: Absolution and HITMAN. HITMAN’s Paris Showstopper mission is six times bigger than the largest mission in Hitman: Absolution. Not only that, but that particular mission in HITMAN featured 60 rooms in the palace itself, as well as 25 unique areas in and around the palace.
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Why am I not surprised? Then it will turn into a downgrade. It’s a trend. 🙂
Delayed doesn’t mean downgrade
No it doesn’t but a trend is a trend.
This one is probably due to too many games coming out in Holiday 2015.
if some people paid you so much to downgrade the game for PC.. why not …
Depends on how much they paid, and how cheap you sellout.
good job!
we want more games to be delayed and polished before they come out on the PC market!
i think the guys from NFS and hitman saw mad max and MGSV how good they were on PC even on day one .
Thed delay is for all versions of the game not just the pc verssion. And IO has never made a bad pc version anyway. Also they must saw how higher steam sales of mad max and metal gear are(from steam spy) cpmpared to batman and pes 2016
well when a game its good and also scales perfectly on a wide range of hardware it will have top sales!
i wonder how fallout 4 will turn out!
Or they saw what happened to Batman, and Steam refunds.
Good. My wallet was already going to be getting it this Autumn with all the games coming out. Hopefully it will be a very polished experience.
Not surprised :I
Great 😀 Day 1 Must Have
I’m not surprised at all. They kept dancing around the question of how much content would be in at release, now they outright admit there wasn’t enough. No wonder they’ve only been showing the same level all the time.
well instead of 1/6 of the game, on march we will get 2/6 of the game.
This game isn’t anywhere near ready for release, So I’m not surprised by this delay as well.
If dues ex gets delayed i’ll be pretty sad
Not bashing but, why people get upset with delays?
Heh, I would like a map size comparison between the new game and Blood Money instead of Absolution…
people dont even care about anything anymore. as long as the numbers are getting bigger everyone is happy