While Sony Interactive Entertainment is still establishing its planned releases for the PlayStation 5, the firm is working with smaller teams to establish a larger stance on its platform. Already, Haven Entertainment Studios, Firewalk Studios, and Deviation Games are all now affiliated to create unique releases for the PlayStation 5 later on.
But, the PlayStation company has also established agreements with other independent teams to ship new titles on the PlayStation 5 as well. For one, developer Sloclap after finishing Absolver has moved on to its next project, Sifu. The game in sum follows the journey of a martial artist and learns new strategies the more he fights. But a new trailer reveals that he masters different opponents fight styles as he ages.
The new footage also discloses a new early 2022 release window; delaying the previously promised fall 2021 launch timeframe for the game. You can watch the new trailer in the video below:
“The Covid crisis and the subsequent lockdowns have been a huge challenge for everyone, and although we were lucky enough not to face the important revenue losses that many businesses have gone through, the situation did create some real challenges for us,” Felix Garczynski, Sloclap Community Manager shares. “Since March 2020 we have had to adapt to changing regulations, switching the whole team to remote working while we continued our development work, and we lost some velocity as a consequence – remote working has its advantages, but losing daily informal interactions between team members can also be hard to manage.
“We still felt earlier this year that we could make our original planned launch date, but as the deadline grew closer, it became clear that we wouldn’t be able to do so without putting the quality of the game at risk or creating huge pressure on the Sloclap team – and neither of these options were acceptable to us.
“We’re very sorry about this delay – as gamers ourselves, we know how frustrating this can be, and as an independent studio, working multiple years on a single project, delaying a game can also create financial risks, so it’s certainly not a decision that we took lightly. But at the end of the day, our top priority is to make the best possible game, a hugely entertaining and polished experience, and we’d rather ask our fans to wait a little longer than planned than release something we’re not totally proud of.”
Are you fine waiting a bit longer for Sifu to ship next year?
Sifu is listed to release sometime in early 2022 for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5.
Source: PlayStation Blog
