Digimon Survive Producer Habu Kazumasa Officially Confirms 2022 Delay

The idea of serious edgy Digimon with permadeath is still rip-roaringly hillarious to me.

EDIT: It's been 4 days and I'm still getting angry responses to this.

Gunning for Bayonetta 3's record

Metroid Prime 4, Persona 6, Bayonetta 3, Final Fantasy XVI and Remake Part 2 will be out before this game lol

If this game ends up being bad, there's gonna be a riot.

Digimon Survive just can't survive all the delays

I think it's a good thing that they're taking their time with it and not rushing it out the door. Wish there were certain other franchises that had this luxury.

I'm surprised that it has been delayed so many times as for a while (possibly back in 2019 or early 2020, it's been so long that I can't really remember), they were putting out information on the main characters and their Digimon on a nearly weekly basis. It really seemed at that point like the game was right around the corner, but we haven't received any updates (beyond the delays) in a long time. I'm really looking forward to it, so I hope that the delays make the game worth the wait.

Wonder if this game is in development hell or not.

@Noid Isn’t that just Tamers?

i wish they;d just release a normal freaking digimon game in the meantime

Then give us Digimon World: Next Order or gives new Story or World game while waiting then. xD

I hate devs who do radio silence BS and then just delay delay delay. No, the game should have been out at this point and it's probably gonna be a disappointment when it does come out (if ever)... So ***** them.

@Noid I don't see anything edgy about what it has been shown on Survive. Also, depending on the circumstances, permadeath and some mature themes have been a thing on the franchise way before this game.

Also, I'm pretty sure people already replied this to you on a previous article about the game when you said a similar thing.

@Yosher I think there's limits to that. There's delaying for polish and then there's missing the original release date by 3 years .

Especially since this game is headed up by the guy in charge of the digimon games so this spin-off is actually holding back main series entries.

That's pretty catastrophic outcome and likely cost them any momentum they had with CyberSleuth.

@Dr_Lugae Good point. But for now I'm gonna look at it on the bright side and hope that this will only cause the game to be that much more polished.

@gojiguy except that we still don't kwon when Bayonetta 3 is gonna release, the game might be in development hell or is planned for Switch sucessor.

Game Freak and TPC are laughing all the way to the bank. They'll have announced and released two sets of Pokemon games and a full season pass before this game makes it to the market. Hopefully it's good, though. It'd suck to wait this long for the game to not be good. 😬

Edit: They did have the rerelease of Cyber Sleuth, at least.

@eaglebob345 Pokemon would have 15x+ or so outsold of this no matter what, it's that strong of an IP.

One of my most anticipated games. The Digimon anime is a treasure (most of the seasons) that I highly recommend. It's story is nothing like Pokemon. Sadly the games have been kind of hit or miss, but most of them are pretty decent to good. I just bought Digimon Story for Switch and I'm looking forward to playing that while I wait for more on this one.

They must really believe in this game to not just canceled it. 3+ years extra dev time is a huge increase for the budget I'd imagine.

@Noid >implying that permadeaths hasn't been a thing in digimon since the first v-pets

Better delayed than broken

They can delay it as much as they need. I haven't completed the Cyber Sleuth duology, so, there is no rush on my end.

I'd rather have a complete and polished game over the unfinished garbage that publishers often put to the presses on disc/cartridge.

Still looking forward to this. Would be nice to get a port of Next Order on the Switch in the meantime, though. D;

Good to hear the project is still alive!

Wow a license game not by Nintendo that could actually be good? Hopefully the wait is worth it.

@Noid Have you actually seen the anime subbed and without all the censorship? While its no Attack on Titan or Death Note it is pretty dark at times and death is very much a thing in it, Digimon Tri the sequel to the original Digimon Adventures got pretty dark and heavy at times and was clearly aimed at an older audience. Being truthful having rewatched the first 3 seasons again last year in there censored US form its amazing how mature and adult it got at times with themes you wouldn't normally see in a show aimed at "kids" especially back when it came out.

I am now going to go insane

Actually, Q3 in 2022 for bandai is October-December 2021
Fiscal years are arbitrary, and Bandai's 2021 year ended in March.
So survive hasn't actually been delayed.

They're definitely reworking it now, I can see. The new Adventure anime may have had anything to do with it.

They switched the game engine in summer 2020, which was strange anyway considering how late into development it was.

My best guess, they have three similar lines of digimon games. BB Studios making Digimon World in Unity. Mediaworks making Digimon Story in an in house engine, and now Witchcraft making Survive in another in house engine.

Considering they're all going to be using the same assets, and most likely the same aesthetics and stats (especially story and world, not so much survive) it would make sense from a cost perspective to get all three studios on the same engine, sharing assets and such. That would also make it far easier for Bandai to take all three series in house at a later date.

@Noid
The idea that your comment garnered 4 Likes tells me you own 5 (total) NLife accounts...

Just give us another Cyber Sleuth type game. Any hype this game had died at this point

As long as I get my PreOrder I don't have to worry about it.

This game is in development hell.

It's really sad, I think the games' prospect is really cool, giving some serious Devil Survivor vibes, but with so many delays it's quite clear there have been some serious issues with development, if it comes out eventually I don't foresee it being particularly good.

Better that than cyberpunk

I rather have delayed product then endless glitches/patches to bugs.

This is also what happens when you announce a game too soon prior to its completion.

This is just crazy to me. At one point in early 2020, they were releasing information on this game every couple of weeks. At that point, I figure it was for sure coming in 2020. I can't believe it's suffered from so many delays.

I want this game so bad

A game delayed this long usually means trouble.

I have to wonder how early into development the game was when it was announced and when they were having seemingly normal updates about it. A 3 year delay is something I'd expect to see a few years ago with a AAA E3 announcement, not a Digimon title. Either it was only halfway done, or the devs had some last minute ideas that got out of hand.

Even for big games with respected legacies like Persona and LoZ, people aren't going to be happy with the wait at their most understanding. People will forget the wait if the game is good, but massive delays like this without specifics are worrying.

I've had this game on preorder at EB Games since early 2019...fully paid off. I'll probably shift it to BOTW2 which will almost certainly release first.

@Arawn93 it's not Cyber Slueth type, but Story type. Plus for around a week I have same thought in my head that they could release new Story or World game. Another thought that I having very long game is rerelease one of older games like Digimon World: Next Order International Edition, plus 2 (3) of 4 (6) Story games on DS was never localized and 3DS's Digimon World Re:Digitize Decode was never localized too, so.

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The delay till 2022 isn't exactly news, but I was hoping for Jan/Feb not Q3 and beyond. I looked into this a few months ago and it turns out the development cycle has been insane. They allegedly switched engines mid-development, but game was still on the drawing board at that point; they hadn't hammered out core gameplay or feature set. Development didn't get into full swing until around October 2020. It's basically been in development for a year now, plus or minus a week. Hopefully the writers and artists have been more productive over the past 4 years.

@Entrr_username Yeah when you get to the point that a whole new game could have been developed in the time its been delayed. Something went wrong.

I stand by what I said back in July on this article. It can't possibly be delayed THIS long just to polish or "enhance the quality" as the producer is putting it.