While everyone bites their nails in anticipation of the Killzone 2 reviews – yes, ours is right around the corner; we're waiting for the U.S. embargo to lift on Feb. 2 – we imagine PlayStation 3 owners will be doing the same thing for God of War III . …and based on recent evidence, it might be exactly one year from now.
We still don't have an official release date for the hotly anticipated action title, although most fans were hoping to see it some time later this year. Some recent evidence, including a sneak peek at the gameplay that SCEA will be offering to some publications in February, makes people believe in a 2009 launch. However, most realists will say the game has a Q1 2010 estimate, which we've certainly heard before. Now, we're hearing it again: according to HipHopGamer, retailer GameStop has apparently received an e-mail from Sony that says GoWIII will release in March 2010. We have to assume Sony sent this message so GameStop could begin taking pre-orders (they can't take pre-orders unless there's an estimated release), so it's certainly just a placeholder. But even so, it now seems readily apparent that GoWIII will not, in fact, be ready in time for 2009. There are plenty of fantastic titles on tap for this year, of course, but next to KZ2, GoWIII is next on the "most anticipated" list for many PlayStation 3 owners.
March really does fit into the puzzle, though. Both previous installments in the series released in March, so why fiddle with tradition? Maybe it's a superstition. Maybe the developers are saying to themselves, "if we don't launch the game in March, we won't get those high-9s!" Sure, it sounds irrational, but who knows?
Related Game(s): God of War III
Damn this is why I bought a PS3! Not really though but damn this really sucks! I thought for sure it would come late this year. Oh well, still plenty of great titles coming this year. This might allow me to play some other great game that I might have missed out on.
…..?
What the hell do you have to say Josh?
Just that its not even within one year of launch and we are speculating.
His soul is splitting inside of him because he wants GoWIII so bad it's draining the Xbot juice from his bones and the call of the dark side is too strong!
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^^In your dreams;)
Sucks but was to be expected because of the previous titles. Guess this year won't be as great. Same thing happened with KZ2 last year. Realists? Only people i've heard that wanted it to come that late were anti-sony idiots. Still I want to wait and hear some official info and see some footage other than that ps2ish crap we got from the video game awards.
I said it would come that late and I am not anti-sony .
Cool. Have a Cookie.
I guess I'll take a cookie to, If they are delaying it, its for a reason. Just sit back and vibe with it man. You can't rush perfection. Just think how much better the game will be with extra polish time?
You assholes eating cookies without me?
Hell yeah! These cookies are special, PS3 fans can enjoy them in all their splendor, but if it touches a 360 fan's mouth it instantly changes to poison due to a chemical reaction in the 360 fan's saliva.
I just saved you life. You are now my xbox slave!
take all the time you need,polish it up nice,neat & clean so we can ram it down all the sony nay-sayers throats.
Thank the gods!!
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Well said.
I've always known that one exclusive will be delayed and one will be a flop. This is already coming to fruition as this is been delayed and my money is on infamous being a flop. If you don't think my predictions for exclusives are correct think, killzone 2 delayed into 2009 last year and HAZE flopped.
I thought they were bringing Haze to PC?
And I would rather take a delayed but polished game any day over a game that could have used a bit of touch up but was pushed to hit a release date.
If InFamous flops I'll be wounded.
infamous won't be a flop. If they take their time on it, And haze what was haze anyway?
Hype for this game is gonna be off the charts! I still cant wait no matter when the release date comes, but it has to be perfect since its the last in its series. I want review scores to be 10 out of 10!
COuldn't say it better mysewlf..I never thoug of that tho..but ur righ non to less
hmm ill wait till 2010 to get on the hype train, it'll save me alot of waiting
Good luck Anonymous. You might wanna leave this site then because Ben and Arnold will shove any information about GoW3 down your throat.
well i waited till like a week ago to get on the Killzowns 2 hype train so i can control my addiction for games. hopefully.
Hurry up March 2010
Why are some people taking about "delays"?
GOW3 has no release date, so there's no way it has been delayed.
I rather wait some more months, but since the beginning the march release sounded more realistic
@rory Haze was developed by a 3rd party studio and published by Ubisoft. It's not Sony fault.
@wizard
Thank you kind sir
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My goodness, 2010 for FF13 and GOW3. I hope Heavy Rain comes out this year. I bet GOW3 will be one of the best looking games ever.
I never put too much stock into what Gamestop says for a release date. When I worked there the dates changed so much. Unfortunately they normally got pushed out but sometimes they were moved up especially when the studio didn't even release a date when Gamestop had already made one up. It is so they can have a date and get reserves on it which boost their numbers and get stores with high reserve rates bonuses. There is probably a company wide reserve contest happening right now.
The store I work at is the busiest in the district, and it is infact leading in pre-orders! And seeing as how I'm the only Sony supporter, imagine how much I had to hype killzone to everyone who walked through my store?
BTW im the 3rd Key for my store.
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I totally feel you on being the only Sony supporter in a Gamestop. Why is it that most everyone in Gamestop is a M$ supporter? I did however convert three employees to PS3 when I had each of them bring their Xbox's over to the house to play games on my 47" and then swapped over to COD4 on the PS3 and when they realized it looked just as clean and the online wasn't really crap like everyone said and that it was free to play online all three of them traded their systems in within the month and got PS3's
Since then all four of us have bought or re-bought 360's but still it was a good feeling at the time.
It's a mystery to me, my network sucks balls but online play is still smooth and it's like yeah dude, you payed less for your 360, but since then you added 150 to the price tag just to play online.
I wonder if Microsoft a little bit of 360?….Nah..But could be?
March 2010? Wasn't expecting it that late… Plenty of titles this year to keep just about everyone satisfied though.
Cool with me, gives me time to get all the goodies in GOW/GOWII
Besides who wants this game to fail? It needs to be 15+ hours of gameplay.
Not some 5 or 6….
Hehe…I rember when Arnold made some claims like 6 months ago that God of War 3 would come out early 2009 and that the PS3 was going to catch up to the 360 in… I believe 12 months?
Not happning 🙂
I expect perfection from sony bring GOW3 and not imperfection, to those gamers who want GOW3 comeout sooner, u need to stop and think and tell yourself that this is the final GOW3 and I want sony to give us gamers something we will never forget this game.
So the question is which of these two games will take a backseat, FFXIII or GoWIII? Not necessarily in the stores but definitely on my TV if they release too close.
I'd rather get a masterpiece later than a so-so game now.
'Both previous installments in the series released in March, so why fiddle with tradition? Maybe it's a superstition. Maybe the developers are saying to themselves, "if we don't launch the game in March, we won't get those high-9s!" Sure, it sounds irrational, but who knows?'
Maybe they just wont finish it in 2009?
Lawl
Yeh
😉
my most wanted in 2009/2010:
FF13
FFv13
White Knight Chronicle
Star Ocean 4
God of War 3
ICO3
Beyonetta
Resident Evil 5
Street Fighter 4
Tekken 6
not in any particular order above
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hello
awww hell…another one.
looool another one!