Jason Schreier: Witcher 4 and Intergalactic Will Not Release in 2026

Jason Schreier crystal ball is usually wrong, but as many leakers do, he can do no wrong and will never admit he pulled it out of his ass to stay relevant, or will misdirect saying 'things changed' or 'my sources blablabla' like you could fastrack a project by a year.

Calling The Archivist @onQ123 to archive this receipt so later he can scrub it along Jason's face like a freshly cut bellend.
I'm no fan of Schreier's politics but in my experience he's got an incredibly good track record on industry rumors/leaks. What has he been wrong on?
 
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In regards to Intergalactic: The Masterpiece Prophet

It's a pretty long wait, but speaking to IGN on the red carpet ahead of The Last of Us Season 2 premiere, Druckmann said that Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is not only playable right now, but "really good."

"I will say we are playing it at the office and it's incredible," Druckmann teased
. "It's really good. I'm so excited to finally put gameplay out into the world and show people about it, because we just showed you the very, very, very tip on the iceberg. The game goes pretty deep beyond that."

Alright, fuck it, LET THEM COOK.

another masterpiece incoming.

they games already playable in an amazing state, 2 years from launch, this thing is gonna be polished and shiny as fuck at launch. and pretty as all hell
 
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Lol how is this different from the norm?

Cory Barlow has taken 7 years to create his new IP, what's the difference here?

And why is there people comparing RGG to the likes of ND, Rockstar, etc??
Who cares about their output. Intergalactic is a new IP, not the 8th entry in a franchise.

ND & Rockstar have MUCH higher critical/sales expectations and reputations than RGG's Yakuza franchise. Their games are typically MUCH bigger in scope than RGG's and for the last decade that's how long it's taken to develop them (6-7 years).
 
Lol how is this different from the norm?

Cory Barlow has taken 7 years to create his new IP, what's the difference here?


And why is there people comparing RGG to the likes of ND, Rockstar, etc??
Who cares about their output. Intergalactic is a new IP, not the 8th entry in a franchise.

ND & Rockstar have MUCH higher critical/sales expectations and reputations than RGG's Yakuza franchise. Their games are typically MUCH bigger in scope than RGG's and for the last decade that's how long it's taken to develop them (6-7 years).

I think you know the answer to your question.......
 
Phew, I was worried there that Neil Druckmann wouldn't end up liking Intergalactic
He's one of the few devs where him saying "its incredible" actually holds weight. Its different than some random Bioware dev saying their game is incredible, I wouldn't believe them.
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A 2027 release date for Intergalactic is perfect. It gives Naughty Dog a chance to release The Last of Us II Remastered Revised Remake.
 
Naughty Dog can't afford to be a one game per generation studio. Especially when it's output is generally single player, narrative heavy third person action.

Of course we will get this in the last year of the PS5, there will be a update for £15/£20 on PS6. Then there will be the remaster for PS6 and PC release which will add some legs. But I held off buying TLoU 2 on PS4 Pro and think I'll be doing the same here.

But I'm not all that fussed really, we haven't seen too much up to now. We've had a slew of space games in the last 3 years or so and I'm approaching saturation without a break. The tease didn't grab me like Uncharted or TLoU so it's just a point of frustration that were not seeing the power houses flex on the dominant platform.

I'll probably lose hours of my life to GTA 6 anyway and I have a backlog so long.....
agreed, & well said...
 
Another Schreier thread. So i wondered who made it.

Adam, i get that you are coping with Mana being lost, but lets not get ahead of ourselves and post Schreier. You never go full Schreier. You just don't.
 
Intergalactic looks like a 2027-28 Title since the reveal.

Eh, if it started development in 2020 like they said, it'd be 6 years in development if it had released next year. 5~6 seems to be the 'standard' for AAA games these years barring exceptions cause of delays/team members leaving etc or just being GTA which can take as long as they need.
 
Witcher 4 i kinda expected it. ( a bit surprised to be honest too. because thats still 2 years - 3 months away. I would have guessed they started development at least 1.5 to 2 years ago. so i was expecting 2026 or at worse early 2027.

but Naughty dog game not making it 2026 ? thats a joke.
 
What? There were people actually expecting 2026 for these games?

I expect Witcher 4 in 2028 at the earliest due to its scope and expectations.

Intergalactic has Naughty Dog coming after a remake,a remaster and a cancelled project. They ain't getting that shit ready anytime soon. But I do expect it before Witcher 4 due to Sony pushing them to get something out the door before PS6.
 
Sony need to stop announcing games 4 years in advance.

They did the same thing with Wolverine and Marathon - two games which we've heard zilch about and likely won't hear anything until 2026.
 
Not surprising. I mean, the middle of the year isn't far at all at this point. People really thought this year was a possibility?
 
The newsworthiness of this is lost on me. Wasn't W4 just announced in December? It just went out of pre-production like a year ago. These games take 5+ years to make. Mid 2027 seems likely. Intergalactic? Who knows. Unless the production schedule leaked. But since they lost so much time on LoU Online, no doubt the game is years away.
 
So Intergalactic already has 3 product placements lined up and I bet nothing close to a vertical slice of gameplay that will be representative in any way of the final game. Blasian bald edgey chick with not-a-lightsaber-technically and a Porsche spaceship. Sounds like something an over medicated PNW dude would draw up in his car after doing a little ketamine on lunch. Just before going back to an office job wearing sandals and a graphic t-shirt.
 
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Intergalactic will be an intergen game.

If Neil Druckman messes up, he's done.
He has a lot of time to prove his haters wrong, and with the TLOU success he will be allowed to fail more than once.
I do not care for the guy, myself because I understand he was not the only main component in making the first and very well received game, but… let's not kid ourselves. He's not going anywhere for awhile.
 
Naughty Dog and CDPR both released games in 2020. I don't see anyone calling out CDPR for mismanagement with them not releasing any games since Cyberpunk, apart from a DLC.

Games take a long time to produce; that's just a reality. For someone to compare Naughty Dog to RGG is hilarious. Those games don't have anywhere near the size and scope of Naughty Dog games.

Do I agree with every studio's decisions this generation? Definitely not, but the idea that there's been large scale mismanagement simply doesn't jive with reality.

Intergalactic is also not the only game Naughty Dog is working on and it's hilarious when people have complained so much about cross gen titles and a disappointing generation, that they then go around and complain about an ambitious next gen game taking too long to develop. You can't complain about sequels and re-used assets AND complain about long development cycles.

A lot of people who are making a budgetary argument about Intergalactic are also quick to ignore TLOU P1 and TLOU P2 Remastered that have made tremendous amounts of money for the studio and will continue to do so.

People also want to pretend like Naughty Dog hit delete on TLOU Online as if they can't simply add it to a multiplayer mode in a new game. Maybe if you believe Druckmann trolling about there being no TLOU P3, but that game is definitely coming.
 
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