Push Square points out next week's PS5 lineup is basically GTA 6 and a whole lot of nothing
Push Square put up their usual weekly release roundup for the 16th to 22nd of November, and the headline is exactly what you'd expect. GTA 6 is out next week, and the rest of the schedule has apparently cleared out around it.
Their writeup is pretty blunt about it. Rockstar's game finally lands on PS5, and according to them it's scared off most of the competition. The guide is framed as 13+ games coming out, but the whole thing opens with GTA 6 chanted three times, which tells you everything about how thin the week actually looks.
the quietest launch week in years
I've been watching release calendars all year and this tracks. Publishers have been shuffling dates for months trying to get out of the blast radius. Some brave studios are still going for it, but the big stuff has mostly fled.
What gets me is how strange it'll feel. Normally a launch week has a couple of mid-tier games as backup, something to mess around with if your preorder shows up late or the servers melt. Next week it's basically GTA 6 or nothing.
Rockstar's juggernaut arrives on PS5 at long last, and it's sent nearly every other game running for the hills.
Can't say I blame anyone. If I had a game ready to ship in that window I'd be having a very long conversation with my publisher too.
the upside for us
Honestly a dead week is kind of a gift. No FOMO about missing something else, no deciding between two releases on the same Friday. Just one game, a bag of snacks, and however long it takes Leonida to download. My backlog is going to sit there untouched for months and I've made peace with that.
Curious how the download itself holds up though. Everyone hitting the servers at once on the 19th is going to be a mess, and I've seen enough chatter about broadband providers bracing for it to assume the first night is going to be rough.
Are you taking time off for launch, or just playing it as and when you can get in?
Source: Push Square · Curated content.
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