The long-awaited strategic JRPG Digimon Survive finally has a release date and it’s July 29, 2022. Any other year, like those Surviving waves Before that was supposed to release in, that would be a perfectly reasonable date for a game that would suit the cult following. But the announcement came just a day after Nintendo decided to increase Xenoblade Chronicles 3 to the same day. I am praying for you Agumon.
“Sorry for keeping you waiting for the update Digimon Survive” Producer Kazumasu Habo said in a YouTube reveal today (via Game). “But today I want to give you this exciting news. Release date of Digimon Survive was finally set for July 29, 2022.”
The news came out of the blue and was long overdue. First announced in 2018, the combined visual novel strategy for PS4, Xbox One, and Switch was originally supposed to launch next year. To replace Digimon Survive was delayed to 2020, and then to 2021 after the pandemic hit. The system was overhauled and the tooling changed during this time, and publisher Bandai Namco promised to update the status of the project in early 2021 but never delivered. Later that year, it said around 2022, and here we are.
Release date story for Xenoblade Chronicles 3, meanwhile, goes in the opposite direction. The open-world action RPG was officially announced only in February of this year. It is set to release in September. Then Nintendo revealed yesterday that it’s actually launching two months early, an ominous move considering Splatoon 2Also slated for a summer release, but a nice surprise for Xenoblade the fans who spent the last 24 hours their loss anime mech–demon.
Stacked release dates do happen, but often far enough in advance that one publisher or another has a chance to blink and say, “No, thanks!” That’s what happened in 2019 when Metro Exodus, Day by dayand anthem that’s all It is expected to arrive on February 22. Final, Metro released a week early and Day by day moved to April, for anthem The wharf is wide so that everyone has to be disappointed.
Personally, I couldn’t be more excited for Digimon Survive and Xenoblade Chronicles 3, just not at the same time. Even in the dead of summer, I don’t have 100 hours to pour into the battles filled with competitive user interfaces and confusing character motives. But it wasn’t too late for one of them to blink and swerve out of the way. If Digimon being delayed for the fourth time, I can really feel relieved. Or better yet, Nintendo can release the latest version of Monolithsoft right now.
