Starting to suspect some of the "we're delaying because of Silksong" announcements are now merely (very smart imo) marketing plays to get free attention and PR.
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Reminds me back in the day where they delayed a bunch of stuff because of Modern Warfare 2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTyN...
aug 26, 2025, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view
it does ride the cutesy we're-gamers-too-don't-forget-we-game-this-totally-isn't-a-barely-held-together-project-driving-massive-overtime vibe
aug 26, 2025, 3:34 pm • 4 0 • view
Silksong did have, what, 4.8 million wishlists right, really not either or. Thats a scary audience to both avoid in the moment and to capture for your game later. A little of column A, a bit of column B
aug 26, 2025, 4:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Our game's coming out later today (as planned). Dodging that Silksong!
aug 27, 2025, 9:33 am • 1 0 • view
I just love that Silksong became the indie version of GTA6. A game to be feared by all others.
aug 27, 2025, 11:19 am • 0 0 • view
It made sense to delay Demonschool...delay it by a month and a half for purely competition reasons...maybe less sense 😅
aug 26, 2025, 3:37 pm • 1 0 • view
I was expecting more people to do this, but because it's a real thing that happens and there's no guarantee moving will help, I figured it might not be worth it (ex: Promise Mascot Agency delayed a week to avoid Switch 2 news, fell right into the path of Blue Prince).
aug 26, 2025, 3:46 pm • 1 0 • view
And there's a tipping point where not everybody can blame Silksong/move all at once and still get a PR bump.
aug 26, 2025, 3:47 pm • 0 0 • view
wonder how much a delay costs a dev and if that hit is worth a few extra headlines
aug 26, 2025, 4:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Was just thinking this when I was like oh hey, I didn’t realize Necrosoft had a new game coming out, looks sick! (To be clear I don’t think the move was calculated as such but it certainly worked that way)
aug 26, 2025, 3:34 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm mostly just joking around, but that one seemed like a publisher feeling pretty stressed.
aug 26, 2025, 3:36 pm • 2 0 • view
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