Quote Originally Posted by Eli85 View Post
They gave the PR reason for moving dates, not the actual reason. I don't doubt that Cyberpunk 2077 needed more polish (in the same way FF7 R did), but there is a reason they cleared out 5 months from the FF7 R release date: they know FF7 R is going to be the biggest PS4 game ever, and have no wish to directly compete against it.
If a company is scared of another company's release date they move it back by a /month/ not five, and especially not to the middle of Fall which is one of the most AAA heavy release windows of any given year. When a game is kicked back by more than three months like that it means that there are a lot of things that need fixing before it's ready and CDPR has the integrity to admit to having bitten off more than they could chew.

If anything FF7 moving their release date just gave CDPR the last little push to convince the board of directors to allow them more time to work on the game. Which, in the end, will benefit anyone who wants to play it as more polish is never a bad thing. No one is 'running scared' of FF7 and especially not a world acclaimed video game studio flush of the massive success of a Netflix TV series that just drove their sales of Witcher 3 and subsequent games to near launch levels, and whom will be releasing jointly on PC/Xbox/AND PS4. FF7 isn't the big dog into this particular relationship given it's relying on nostalgia, is from a company that has consistently bombed with the singleplayer FF series for years, and the initial release of FF7 will provide only 1/3rd of the actual game with a greatly expanded story that many are right to be wary of. The amount of people I know who are excited for FF7R but are waiting till it's fully released because they know SE and have had bad experiences with their piecemeal releases isn't minimal.

It's okay to be excited for a game release but your fanboy is showing if you think either company cares about competing with the other.