 Hey there lads and ladies, it is Petrifying Pumpkins here and welcome to a video about Phasmophobia, a rather disappointing heartbreaking and frankly depressing video for me to make, something I was hoping I'd never have to make. Phasmophobia has been delayed once again for PSVR2 and all the console versions, actually PS5, Xbox as well. The game was originally scheduled to come to console in August and then there was an office fire which forced the team to work remotely and that set the release back, they aimed for the week of Halloween and now as we're approaching that week, they're saying yet again they've run into issues that were unforeseen and what not and now it's going to be pushed out again and they haven't given us a date this time, not even an estimate this time, so who knows how far it's going to be pushed out but we will read the update from the developers and see if we can get any information out of there. I'm going to zoom in a little bit because my eyes are getting old. So console updates, we'd like to express our deepest gratitude for your support and excitement for our console release as we still try to adapt to our new remote working life after the fire instant and to establish a new office, we've encountered unforeseen challenges in adapting the game for consoles, these combined factors have affected our development timeline more than we initially anticipated. Additionally, in preparation for the PSVR2 launch, we have been diligently reviewing the game's performance and optimizing us across all maps to ensure a seamless experience for all of our console players. In this regard, we had to rework Maple Lodge campsites with a completely new layout, more information below. This decision, though time consuming for our art team, is essential to provide the best possible gameplay experience, so it seems the PlayStation VR2 specifically might have contributed to this delay and they didn't single-handedly point to that being the only issue, but the PSVR2, the way it runs on this Maple Lodge or whatever it's called, seems to be one of the contributing factors at least. Now, we do know the game runs on unicy and as far as I know, unicy has a hard time with phobia as a renderant, so maybe phobia as a renderant is not something we should be expecting with phasmophobia and because of that, performance isn't going to be as efficient as maybe it could be or should be, hence why this Maple Lodge campsite was maybe given them some issues running smoothly on the PSVR2, but it sounds like they've got to work around by completely remaking that map, or well, not completely, but relaying, making the layouts different so you're not loading in too much at once or whatever. While we had hope to present you with a special launch alongside the Halloween event, so this was going to launch the same time as the Halloween event, the complexity of our current challenges means we need more time. We will keep you updated on our progress and provide a revised release date as soon as we have more information to share. We are working diligently to minimize the impact of this delay and we want to express our sincere gratitude for your continued support. We promise when phasmophobia arrives on consoles it will be worth the ways and I've known that it will be like this, like I'm not going to get too upset about delays, even this one, you know delays are always the right thing to do, you do not want to release a broken game, but because I've been looking forward to this game so so much this one really felt like an absolute punch to the gut and because of the kind of vague wording, I mean for all we know this is now a 2024 game, I hope it's something that's maybe just pushed a few weeks, they're talking about minimizing the impact of this delay down here, but who knows, you know. And then when you read this, I'm not going to read all this Maple Lodge campsite stuff, but there was an interesting thing they bring up the Halloween event. So the Halloween event will launch on or around the 26th of October. So that tells me that the phasmophobia was going to come to console PSVR 2 on the 26th of October before this tragic delay. So yes, sad news when it comes to phasmophobia, sad as well that it misses Halloween, I mean it really is the perfect game for PSVR 2 for Halloween. Of course, that's not to say we're going to be starved for Halloween games, we already got propagation, Madison is going to be coming around that time, Ghostbusters will probably benefit a lot from this delay, maybe more so than any other game because they're somewhat similar with the co-op Hunting of Ghosts basically. So maybe that's a plus for End Dreams' title, and there's other stuff like Seventh Guest and whatnot coming out soon as well. So there is plenty of horrors to keep you going throughout Halloween, hopefully this one will not be too far behind. Anyway, just wanted to let you know I'm disappointed, I am, I really am, I understand why but I'm still disappointed, I can't help it, I'm just heartbroken over this one. Anyway, that is it for this video, let me know your thoughts in the comments below, I know a lot of you probably say listen, better to release a game that works than one that's broken and you're right of course, but right now it's the emotions, it's the emotions getting in my way, my hormones are not allowing me to see logically like that. Anyway, in this video thank you for watching, before I go let me thank my channel members whose names are on the screen right now. They are the following, Muzz, Dead Eye Dan, Chopped PPE, No One Knows, Movemaster Make, Esports, Commentator for Hire, Dage the Pumpkin Patch Kid, Pete Hawkins, Crumb, Superfly AF, Edify Till I Die, Mr777 and Lone Wolf the Orr. 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