There's been a lot of hype for Bloober Team's psychological horror The Medium, which will be a console exclusive for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S, but it's unfortunately now been delayed until January 28, 2021.
Taking to Twitter, the development team highlighted that it had made the decision due to the COVID-19 situation in Poland, as well as "the current schedule of other games on the market."
Until now, The Medium had been scheduled to launch on December 10th with Xbox Game Pass, which due to other delays would have placed it on the same release date as the highly-anticipated Cyberpunk 2077.
Bloober Team says the additional development time will allow the team to add further polish, "ensuring we deliver our innovative, genre-pushing vision of interactive psychological horror."
Does it make sense to delay this one with Cyberpunk 2077 around the corner? Share your thoughts below.
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I was really looking forward to this game, well I still am and whilst it might not be because of Cyberpunk, I'm kind of glad as that will be taking most of my time (assuming it comes out as well)
2 Polish studios. Domino effect.
It can wait, plenty for me to play on the series x until then. Assassins creed, crash bandicoot 4, forza horizon 4, Doom eternal, cyber punk and probably a few more.
Getting pre wedding nerves, anyone had in the UK from Game, any despatch news, packing news, shipping news or even money taken off credit card. I’ve not heard a thing as of right now about my series x preorder, apart from thanks for your order when I placed it.
Another studio being affected by Cyberpunk's delay, what a surprise. Hopefully it will actually come out in December so that it stops affecting more studios.
That's ashame i know alot of people were looking forward to The Medium
Shame. I have it preordered on Steam. Nothing new to play this year now
@LtSarge it is becoming a "just ship the damn thing" situation for everyone😂
Disappointing as I was quite looking forward to this but I'd rather wait till the game is ready if it helps the developers avoid a crunch - especially in the current covid situation. I don't want anyone to get sick just so I can play a game "on time"
@thejameswhogames it’s not really that, I mean they mention Covid. However, they basically say “Other games on the market” which is a way to say without saying they don’t want to launch against Cyberpunk. Which is literally the issue, and I wouldn’t be surprised if more smaller games move to get out of its way.
Cyberpunk getting delayed......again......really screwed this game over.
I am excited for The Medium, as I love horror games.
"another one gone, another one gone, another one bites the dust!"
but seriously take as long as you need.
LOL They didn't want to launch next to Cyberpunk. Don't blame them one bit.
Well, I don't have the hardware to play this atm, so this doesn't bother me any. Really looking forward to seeing how it turns out, as this is currently the next-gen exclusive I'm most interested in.
It is what it is. At least I can chip away at that backlog!
It's a shame, but not exactly a bad thing. It gets itself away from Cyberpunk 2077, if that doesn't get delayed again. Another month and a half isn't the end of the world, especially with several games being worth playing at launch (even if people like to say that the Series X has no games worth playing yet, which is bs).
Shame was the exact words I thought I'd when reading the headline - and lots of people have said it already!
However, there is enough to be getting on with for launch day, even if no big titles, but then isn't that why we are invested in the system - the whole cross-gen and BC?
With only a few days to go, boy, am I excited?!
This is unfortunate, I was looking forward to the medium. More time to spend with Cyberpunk I suppose.
I kinda glad. I don't like spending a lot of money at one time. I'll do it for one thing like a TV, Car or Vacation. Xbox Series X, extra controller, game and NVMe SSD that's a no.
Good news it wasn’t delayed for to long. Isn’t this coming to game pass
A lot of studios delaying their games. Meaning their game needs a little more polish, etc. Or conspiracy theory hat on that the developers weren't ready for the ps5/xbsx being rushed out in 2020. Also meaning that these first batch of consoles might have some flaws.
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