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sharesįinishing up 0.9% and Unity Software Inc. Many publishers are also mindful of last year’s buggy release of the long-awaited and overdue “Cyberpunk 2077” from CD Projekt SAĪ few other videogame-related stocks finished slightly higher Wednesday, with Playtika Holding Corp. “They’ve required more investment and time to make, and the difference between a hit and a miss to the financials can be massive.” “The stakes are higher than they’ve ever been for the biggest games,” NPD’s Piscatella said. “We’ve been seeing a number of delays for months now because videogames are very difficult to make in the best of times, and they get much harder to make with a newly primarily remote workforce and all of the challenges people are faced with in these not-so-best of times,” Piscatella said.īenchmark analyst Mike Hickey, who has a buy rating and a price target of $188 on EA, also noted “we suspect developers are struggling with productivity during the extended work from home scenario.” “Just a bit of the new normal for a while, I’m afraid.” “So long as the pandemic persists, companies will be wary to put firm release dates out there, and those that do get announced will be subject to delays,” Piscatella said. NPD Group analyst Mat Piscatella said in emailed comments that delays that have occurred in 2021 shouldn’t come as a surprise. Take-Two shares finished up 0.4% on Wednesday. Games are being released that reviewers claim are more realistic simulations of historical events, like Battlefield 2, which portrays the agonizing conflict. Which last week announced a four-month delay of new versions of its “Grand Theft Auto” franchise. The news of the EA delay follows on the heels of recent delays from rival Take-Two Interactive Inc. “With the ongoing conditions not allowing that to happen safely, and with all the hard work the teams are doing from home, we feel it is important to take the extra time to deliver on the vision of ‘Battlefield 2042’ for our players,” Gabrielson said. “Given the scale and scope of the game, we had hoped our teams would be back in our studios together as we move toward launch.”
“Building the next generation of ‘Battlefield’ during a global pandemic has created unforeseen challenges for our development teams,” said Oskar Gabrielson, who heads EA’s DICE studio, in a statement. 22 release, but not as bad as a release sometime in 2022. 19, 2021, a delay as compared with its previously expected Oct. After Wednesday’s close, however, EA announced that “Battlefield 2042” would be released worldwide on Nov.
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