So far we have about five sites listing May 25, so that's my current guess. It's entirely possible we'll have two release dates, one for America and one for the rest of the world
Possible but unlikely. Stream facilitates a worldwide release, why would they hold back? Worth stream, retail is hardly a consideration any more.
Steam doesn't seem to affect release dates really, even when the game is Steamworks based.
Perhaps in 10 years time, but for now there are still boxed copies and that is made easier by separating out the release dates for different parts of the world.
It is also worth noting that different parts of the world have 'traditional' days on which games are released and there's some resistance to changing this as well. That alone probably holds things back a bit.
Games in UK/Ireland are always released on FRIDAY. U.S tends to release games on Monday (or Tuesdays?) I think right?
May 1st isn't a national holiday in the US, I assume?
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May 1st isn't a national holiday in the US, I assume?
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May 1st would be a bad choice for a release date as it's a national holiday in more than 80 countries.
Not if the shops are closedSo everyone would be at home looking for something to do, like playing a video game?