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Jedi Pushed Back
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Action adventure souls-like Star Wars Jedi: Survivor's release date has been pushed back six weeks from March 17 to April 28 with the standard polish reason.

Curious that they didn't delay another week until May the 4th, Star Wars Day.

Though that would have put them immediately after Arkane's open world co-op vampire shooter Redfall, who last week announced a May 2 release.

Unless Redfall is terrible you wouldn't want to follow it and Arkane's previous games have famously been excellent.

Also releasing on April 28 is ultra gory zombie first person shooter Dead Island 2 which we'd expect to be popular but the least of the three.

Could there be reasons other than polish for the move?

The rumour mill tells us to expect a Bethesda event in March and we've speculated that following their recent stealth launch of Hi-Fi Rush, first revealed to the world in a showcase and available to buy within hours, perhaps Starfield might forgo setting a release date and just release in a similar fashion.

To deny competitors any opportunity to schedule their games to Starfield's disadvantage.

There are many equally or potentially higher profile games which don't yet have release dates, eg. a potential Elden Ring expansion, Armored Core VI by Elden Ring developer FromSoftware, Cyberpunk 2077 expansion Phantom Liberty.

Even if one or more competitors stealth launch anything prior to a scheduled Bethesda event, Bethesda could simply call off their stealth launch.

Starfield continues to be one of the most wishlisted games on Steam and Bethesda roleplaying games are pretty much guaranteed hits so Jedi Survivor - much further down on that list - would not want to share March with it.

Also possible is that Jedi Survivor wants more distance between itself and fantasy action roleplaying game Hogwarts Legacy which launches next week and is generating the kind of buzz levels which might cast a very long shadow.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is now scheduled to launch on April 28 on PC, Xbox X|S and PS5.

[ Main Image: Star Wars Jedi Survivor. Credit: Electronic Arts via Steam. ]

References

EA Star Wars [@EAStarWars] (February 1, 2023). For the last three years, the Jedi team here at Respawn has poured its collective heart and soul into Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. Twitter.

Hopley, Alex (January 25, 2023). Rumour: Bethesda could be holding another event in March. GameReactor.

Steam. Star Wars: Jedi Survivor. Electronic Arts. (viewed February 3, 2023)

Steam. Top Wishlists. (viewed February 3, 2023)