God of War Ragnarok Will Release 'When It's Done' on PS5

"It's what's best for everyone"

[RazzerRedux]

"WHEN. IT'S. DONE."

Ok....but that's what Sony should have said in the reveal rather than "2021". Sony is certainly in no position to suggest others "need to hear this" as if we imagined the year the game was suppose to launch. Love Barlog's work, but just STFU and finish the game.

[seanpitt23]

It’s marketing Sony probably knew 100% that Ragnarok would not make it out this year but say 2021 and it get fans hyped and gets them to go crazy for a ps5 on launch day and beyond and I think it worked.

[phoenixwing]

I agree with Sean. It was a calculated move.

[jBlakeeper]

My thoughts exactly. Announce a new God of War to generate hype. Sony fully knows what consoles it will release on as well. It could very well be cross gen. This was just to spur PS5 launch sales.

[generic-user-name]

Same with GT7. I mean, when has a GT game ever met it's initial release date?

[chiefJohn117]

I told them this but ppl got mad. people act like Sony doesn't do this on a regular

[Army_of_Darkness]

As long as they don't pull a cyberpunk 2077, I'm good with it.

[Michiel1989]

I was already surprised it was announced for 2021. Santa Monica has a decent track record of having a long development cycle, for good reason though.

[mikeslemonade]

Just make sure it’s a PS5 game only.

[ScootaKuH]

I never expected to see Ragnarok this year tbh, but I agree they shouldn't have said 2021.

Having said that, I'm confident it's not vapourware. I remember back around the launch of the Switch I was sucked in by the promise of Metroid Prime 4. Around 4 years down the line and it's still nowhere to be seen. I definitely don't think we'll be waiting so long for this.

I would imagine we'll see Ragnarok either next year, or possibly 2023. Same goes for GT7.

I appreciate that things can happen and release dates can slip but honestly, I doubt Ragnarok was ever really on the cards for 2021 and I agree it was likely a stunt to get the hype train moving and shift those PS5s.

[derek]

How about we wait to hear definitively before we engage in endless speculation. Sony stated 2021 only they can be the ones to change that.

[Sunny_D]

@generic

I think GT3 was a launch title for the PS2 lol

[porkChop]

Yeah, Sony announced all those 2021 games just to create hype for the PS5. They knew the games would need more time.

[RazzerRedux]

"all those 2021 games"

This is about GoW. What games (plural) are you referring to?

Edit: lol......I love being downvoted for asking a question. Please continue....or maybe.....give answers?

[Extermin8or3_]

I mean Sony only really put data on Horizon Zero Dawn and GoW abd Horizon is still due second half of the year. Gran Turismo got a projected time frame mentioned in small print as "aiming for" and that was quickly removed at the time. Hardly the same thing. Also I think Gran Turisno possibly was hoped to actually be plausible that it would release this year.

[derek]

@porkchop you do not know this, you are just making that up.

[porkChop]

"This is about GoW. What games (plural) are you referring to?"

The games that Sony have delayed? I thought that was obvious.

[RazzerRedux]

My question was obvious but you didn't answer it. What 2021 games have Sony delayed? You said "all those" as if there were many.

[ShadowWolf712]

Yes, I am so sure they knew that the racing game they specified was targeting mid-2021 was going to have to be pushed into 2022. Ryan stating that they'd learned exactly how hard the pandemic was hitting game development this year was just a cover, obvs.

Btw, what about the two or so games that ARE still releasing this year?

[ScootaKuH]

What games have Sony actually delayed though? They never gave any cast iron dates as far as I'm aware

[WillyC009]

Gotta love the answer without an actual answer. This is what the world is coming to.

What games specifically porkChop?

[Shiken]

@RazzerRedux

Horizon Forbidden West is rumored to be delayed, but they are TRYING to be done by holiday.
God of War due to this comment is looking like a 2022-23 game.
GT8 is CONFIRMED to be delayed.

Not everything is confirmed, but enough evidence is a cause for concern. Sony has always announced games and delayed them in order to build hype, this is nothing new.

[RazzerRedux]

Shiken

Delays are a common occurrence in the gaming industry. I don't like Barlogs tweet on this but singling out Sony is silly.

[DragonWarrior19]

I don't think there was a single gamer who say that 2021 date and took it seriously.

[neutralgamer1992]

To me this was always a 2022 title and GT7 fall 2022. My question now is will horizon come out this year? It wouldn't surprise me with how well ps5 has been doing that Sony may push it to early 2022 with GOW in spring and GT7 in fall (just taking a guess)

[porkChop]

Ratchet, GT7, Horizon, GoW. Nearly their whole slate of 2021 games has been pushed back either later in the year, or into next year. I don't know why you always play dumb and pretend you don't know the answer. It's far beneath you.

[RazzerRedux]

No, it is called asking a question and for some idiotic reason it took you two additional posts to actually answer it.
I had honestly forgotten that GT7 had been delayed into 2022. Horizon and R&C are still 2021 games. You referenced "2021 games" as if they were no longer "2021 games".

So for finally answering a simple question, thank you, but there was absolutely no reason at all for you to be snide about me asking for clarification. It is beneath you.

[Petebloodyonion]

Are you surprise considering Sony's past track record with announcing AAA game for next year but delivering them 2 or 3 years after?
I'll be honest to say that the real surprise is Sony actually respecting Ratchet and Clank release date because I had the game picture for Fall 2021 (Like Halo) but we can expect the game to be released as promised but for the rest
lol.

[Silly gameAr]

I'm really excited for Ragnarok, but maybe Sony shouldn't have said this year if it wasn't going to release this year.

[nyu1]

Maybe they thought it would, and now it isn't going to ?

Delays happen all the time. Making these high quality games is difficult and hard to predict.

[Amplitude]

Especially during a pandemic that has no known end in sight. Hitting release targets is hard enough even without the whole covid thing

[sinspirit]

Maybe I'm blind.. but, this still doesn't tell us that there is any delay. Everyones already shouting that there is certainly a delay. This doesn't mean anything till the estimated release is pushed back to 2022. That's why 2021 was already a broad answer. Maybe they had an internal guesstimate that put a feasible 2021 release date even with a one or two month delay. We don't know till they tell us 2022. And obviously I'm not telling everyone what will or won't happen, but everyones jumping on board with so little information and don't understand there are still many many months left in the year to announce a release date 6 months out, which isn't uncommon. Read about how GoW had a huge change just before release. It's important not to show too much too soon.

[itsmebryan]

Sony has been doing this since PS3 if not before. Look how long GT5 was delayed on PS3, then Drive Club a PS4 launch game was delayed over a year and was still broken. They advertise game that often miss advertised releases dates.

[ShadowWolf712]

They were targeting this year. They thought it would be ready this year. For all we know, it may actually still be on-track FOR this year, it may be delayed, who knows? That doesn't mean that they "knew" it wouldn't release this year.

[Ausbo]

Yeah they probably should’ve held off on announcing a date because we were well into the pandemic at that time and it seems 2021 was too optimistic

[Kavorklestein]

Yeah Sony hasn't been very transparent or honest this gen so far. Lots of loose claims and words.
That's usually something Microsoft is known for. Ironically, it was Microsoft that did well in setting the expectations for Mostly 2022 and beyond for 1st party titles.

[waverider]

2021 is not a good year to launch amazing games. Lets hope it gets better.

[Rimeskeem]

It's possible that they did think it would be done faster because of the new hardware and tools but now they may have realized how much more is actually possible. Premium games take time, maybe they could have released a good game in 2021, but they obviously didn't think it was good enough.

[Sunny_D]

That or Covid.

[DragonWarrior19]

If they were confident in the release they would have shown footage. The banner pretty much told everyone that it was 100% not coming out in 2021. It was a marketing stunt.

[derek]

@DragonWarrior19 and if it comes out in 2021 what will you say then? Sony said 2021 as marketing to hype up the ps5? The ps5 didn't need "hyping" you dope, if they said 2021 (which is the last official date given) then the game is pretty far along in its development.

[Hellcat2020]

As long as we get Horizon this year I don't mind waiting till next year or the year after for the next God of War

[Tedakin]

I got some bad news for you. Rumors saying that's delayed to 2022 as well.

[Hellcat2020]

First I'm hearing of such thing

[AmUnRa]

"RUMORS"😉

[Games1st]

Need that in the next trailer.

[Battlestar23]

There is a pandemic going go guys and these devs have to work from home which slows down development of the games. Sony will release it when it's ready while also safe guarding the lives of their employees.

[Viking_mo]

Everyone knows that, Jim Ryan shouldn't have said 2021 if he wasn't 100% sure.

[RazzerRedux]

Exactly. The pandemic was already going on when they announced the new God of War would release in 2021. That doesn't fly.

[derek]

@ Viking_mo Jim Ryan can say whatever he wants as he has information that you do not. You and nobody else on this board knows the state in development of GoW 2 so why ru pretending to.

[DiRtY]

After Gran Turismo got delayed to 2022 and Horizon is rumored to be not on time as well, God of war isn’t likely to release this year.

[generic-user-name]

Jim Ryan recently said Horizon is still on pace to release this year. I'm not saying it won't be delayed but who's rumouring otherwise?

[DiRtY]

https://www.psu.com/news/ho...

The same guy who leaked the PC version of the first game... so it’s somehow credible.

[derek]

@DiRtY so he's credible and Jim Ryan/Guerilla games is not. This is the same stupid thing that happened with secret infinity fabric in the ps5, people spreading rumors as fact when the actual source (Mark Cerny) stated exactly what tech went into the ps5. We will get an update on release when they choose to give it.

[jBlakeeper]

Then why the hell did ya’ll say 2021?! To generate insane hype for PS5? Affirmative.

[Highrevz]

You folks seriously didn’t see this coming 🤷‍♂️ How could you not?

[EmperorDalek]

Literally no one expected it to be out this year, even after the trailer.

[Knushwood Butt]

There was a trailer?

[EmperorDalek]

Teaser trailer... Pretty sure that's what they're called

[Knushwood Butt]

The one that introduced the name of the game?

If so then I saw that and haven't missed anything!

[uGLYmE]

Great news!

I hope developers/Sony quit handing out premature release dates and just keep releasing quality games. The impatience of gamers (death threats, nit picking cut content, etc) has to stop.

They’re called ‘games’ for a reason; The community needs to be reminded of this.

Anyways, rant over. Loved the first one, replaying now on PS5. Sequel will be epic!

[Deathdeliverer]

I have no complaints.

[Traecy]

Sony should have never stated it was releasing in 2021. I'm guessing a spring 2022 release date.

[chicken_in_the_corn]

Why are people so hell bent this will be delayed?

They made it clear the second game won't take anywhere near as long as the first game to develop and it is more than likely to be the DLC for the last game (which they stated was too ambitious to stay as DLC) turned into a new game.

It will launch this year and it will be cross gen. Mark my words

[Sprucegoose77]

Words are marked! Lol, it's not coming out this year!

[chicken_in_the_corn]

What gives you that idea?

[Sprucegoose77]

"What gives you that idea?"

History with previous God of War game launches. Almost every game in the series has been delayed. Also why launch the game when only 5-10 million have a PS5. Wait until the install base goes up and you end up selling more copies faster. I enjoy gaming with Sony but they build up hype adjust accordingly. It's nothing new. I'm guessing between Feb-May 2022.

[TheColbertinator]

Good because I am sick of "Not finished but buy it from us anyway"

[Minute Man 721]

Well that's great...all you bastards with a PS5 won't get to play it before the rest of us hunting down a 5

J/K 😉

[Orchard]

More games should follow GOW and Halo and release when ready.

Sick of paying $60 (or now $70) for incomplete and/or broken games that either never get finished or take 6-12 months to be in a finished state.

[WillyC009]

Why the hell would you lump God of War into the same group as Halo? Halo looked like a steaming pile of you know what, all we got for God of War was a teaser.

One will be fantastic, the other a generic 1st person shooter.

[AuraAbjure]

That's literally exactly what CP277 said 😆

[Lionsguard]

It's not surprising, I mean the first one was delayed like what? 3 or 4 times?

[jznrpg]

The game may have been able to be done this year but I think they’re taking their time now since the microchip shortage has lessened their sales that would have been there by the end of the year . They could of easily sold 20 million PS5’s by now and who knows how many by end of the year . Instead they’ve have only been able to make around up to 10+/- million so far . The industry wide shortage has really hurt all industries and it makes sense to hold off a little longer to get more PS5s out there even if it’s cross gen. Either way , the end of 2021 or any quarter 2022 I don’t care. The last GoW was amazing and all they need to do is improve a little in a couple areas . Common Enemy variety needs to be better mainly (imo) .I am patient because I know they deliver in the end and I don’t have to hope that the next GoW . The only GoW that was ever just decent was Ascension . But GoW is bigger than ever now and the last game set the bar extremely high and they know they can only release a game at minimum the same level. Sure it was premature to state 2021 but if it’s early 2022 it’s not a big deal. It’s not like they said they spent a billion dollars on games at the beginning of the gen or best holiday lineup or
Mic drop moments and at the end of the gen don’t have anything memorable to show for it . Games get delayed but it’s coming

[sourOG]

Doesn’t mean it’s not coming in 2021. He was responding to people crying on twitter about it not being in the state of play.

[DefaultComment]

then why in the flying f*** did you place in 2021 when you first announced the logo you cretins?!

[SpineSaw]

This is sad but entitled people need to be talked to like they are children. There are a few games, big games like CDPR and CyberPunk that get released before they are done but most game can not be released until they are "Done"! Its all good to want a game to release tomorrow but that's never likely to ever happen and not only do developers have to finish the game they in this case a Sony First Party like any other First Party from Nintendo or Microsoft would need to workout the release details with them on their release schedule for Barely to feel the need to come out and make a statement like that is sad.

[Teflon02]

Didn't they say more info in 2021 not a release in 2021? I maybe wrong but that's what I always assumed

[TheEroica]

STOP TELLING US ABOUT GAMES THAT HAVE NO FIRM RELEASE DATES.

[Tedakin]

I never believed it was coming in 2021. They almost did that to create hype around the new console knowing they could always move the game back later.

[Mister_G]

Good!

[Phantom68]

I have never believed in the 2021 release date. I knew it was only a marketing ploy to get fans hyped and that the game would be delayed because covid/working from home/not finished/needs more polishing, Why woud lthey release both Horizon and GOW in the same year?

[moriarty1889]

like any other game.

[IRetrouk]

Good, rather a finished game than a rushed one🤷‍♂️

[XxSPIDEYxX]

CyberPunk 2077 releases a rushed buggy mess

Gamers : "How dare they?"

God of War 5 Will release when it's ready

Gamers : "How dare they?"

[cd1]

Damn right.

[GrizToof]

I have no problems with this, every game in development should be released "when it's done". Why is Sony telling us the game is coming out this year if it sounds like your trying tell us there is no time frame for release yet? Anyone that keeps up with game development can tell that a 2021 release for this game sounds unrealistic. Don't be surprised if this game is released late 2022.

[Parasyte]

Good! Take your time.

[spambot0815]

duh... more interesting question would be, is when it's done before or after ps5 demand hitting supply?

[Lighter9]

Omg. What a concept. And this is news bc...?

[UltimateRacer]

There’s nothing here stating it’s delayed, Cory is simply saying it will be ready when it’s ready and that can be any time in 2021, there’s no confirmation from Sony that it’s delayed.

[Exvalos]

If you thought for 5 minutes ragranrok was going to release in 2021 your delusional, horizon forbidden west is not releasing this year either.

[digger18]

Good for them. I find a lot of the gaming communities are self entitled and you’ll get it when its ready and not when you want it

[moomoo319]

Sony clearly indicated that Horizon, GT7, GoW Ragnarok, and ratchet would release this year. Of course now that the hype is generated and console is out, 3/4 of those games will be pushed to 2022. Classic. Games marketing is some of the most nonsense sh*t

[anast]

Then don't hype it until it's done.