Dead Island 2 delayed until 2016

Deep Silver and Yager Development have announced that Dead Island 2 has been delayed until 2016. It was scheduled to be released in "Spring 2015" at one point but as the season arrived without a firm release date something appeared to be wrong.

Now the industry knows what: the game wasn't up to the standards the developers and publisher set for themselves, at least that's according to a statement from the Dead Island 2 team, who say: "We have been looking at the game long and hard, and we have decided we didn't reach that goal we set out to achieve quite yet."

[One-Shot]

Probably for the better since we already got Dying Light this year.

[Genuine-User]

And by what we saw last E3, it didn't really look that good. Should be at least as good, if not better than Dying Light come next year.

[starrman1985]

Dying Light was the spiritual successor to Dead Island/Riptide anyway!

[Spinal]

I don't think it's going to be anything near as good as Dying light from the gameplay vids so far. Dead island 2 just looks like another Dead rising 3. I just don't see it doing well.

Dying light on the other hand has set a new bar for zombie games. I expect a lot from Left 4 dead 3 now.

[loganbdh]

Even though they made dying light, isn't that IP part of WB Games?

[itsjustexuma]

No, theyre owned by Deep Silver

[Tzuno]

Because the game was a turd in the current state, i mean no singleplayer campaign just mindless zombie slash with daily missions brought by developer daily.

[KryptoniteTail]

Good, delays make better games.

[Sayburr]

Yep, did wonders for Watch Dog and the launch of Drive Club...

[Rimeskeem]

On the contrary Halo MCC and Unity should have been delayed

[StormLegend]

Delay Gen

[gangsta_red]

It really does seem that way. I hope 2016 is where we start seeing these developers hit their stride with a steady stream of games.

[MilkMan]

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.
This gen is hilarious.
These machines came out waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to early. What was the point of releasing these consoles now anyway? Seriously.

@Tzuno
Please say what you stated in your statement isn't the truth. Cause that's pretty sad.

[Darkwatchman]

Came out too early? Last gen is the longest a console generation has lasted in history before new consoles were introduced. They came too late. If you really think they came out too early and wanted to wait even longer for the new consoles, then you want technology to stagnate because most developers focus on consoles and so pc devs certainly would make better looking of games, but they'd be held back to a point by the ancient PS3 and Xbox 360 hardware. Video game technology would come to a halt. By 2011, the PS3 and Xbox 360 already felt like they hit their limits. The problem with this gen is that the consoles are too underpowered in comparison to the technology available today. They should have been more powerful, but they weren't so Sony and Microsoft could afford the tech inside of it and not take a loss on each product sold. It's sad, but that's just how business work.

[Lionalliance]

That's wise actually, since we got Dying Light this year.

[22CobraKing]

On the trailer it just showed off weapons but no story so that may be what they are focusing on

[criticalkare]

Not surprised at all... in this generation of delays...

[StarLord_Who]

I'm getting a bit of DEJA VU now. Wasn't there 2000+ games delayed last year? Stop giving us release windows, just say it is "coming soon." There is no such thing as a bad delay but games like this aren't getting delayed, they're windows are being moved so if we didn't know anything about release windows, no one would care and that bolds well because all people do now is moan.

[WizzroSupreme]

Dead Island 2 is better off delaying itself 'til it's ready, because Dead Island 1 was so overrated to begin with.

[ZaWarudo]

That's fine. I really liked what i saw last year, it already looks way better then the boring Dead Island 1/Riptide.

[KillerPwned]

I am ok with this the summer and holiday is already going to be awesome enough and over a month of buying Dying Light I havent even gotten to 20% of the story.

[N8]

The sequal wasn't dying light? Oh

[Skankinruby]

First one was terrible, so keep working on it to make the sequel playable

[gangsta_red]

After Dying Light I don't even see the need for Dead Island 2 which IMO played exactly like a Dead Island game with better functions and features.