This is the only thing I can think of:
They needed to move the date up so as not to compete with Starfield in terms of media coverage. Doesn't matter that it's on another console, it's freaking Space Skyrim were talking about and both of them are competing on PC, which is most likely to be their highest selling platform. So in order to hit the new date they pull people off the PS5 team to make the PC version the best it can be at the earlier date. Once PC is released, they move back to PS5 to take that one to the finish line, only now they need more time since they focued resources on PC. That is the only way it makes sense to me.
Not sure what’s the point here… not only both of these games are console exclusive on their own systems, and it’s not like the game is releasing physically and would have to fight on the shelves with Starfield. People who already preordered the game and paid good money to get access to it earlier now have to wait longer because it could sell less ?
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