Saints Row 5 Seemingly Delayed

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Saints Row 5, the tentative name for the new Saints Row game in development, has been seemingly delayed. The news comes way of Embracer Group, the parent company of Deep Silver and THQ Nordic. The company notes in its latest earnings call that it was planning to release two AAA games this fiscal year, which ends in March 2021. However, these two titles have been delayed. The pair of games are now scheduled to release the next fiscal year, which begins on April 1, 2021, and runs until March 31, 2022.

In the earnings report the two titles in question are not mentioned, but it's believed that one of them is the new Saints Row. We know the new installment in the popular crime series is scheduled to be revealed this year, and many assumed its release wouldn't be that far behind considering it's been in development for a few years.

However, when mentioning why it expects substantial growth this fiscal year, Embracer name drops many of the upcoming games from its portfolio, but not Saints Row, seemingly confirming it's not releasing this fiscal year, which in turns gives more weight to it being one of the two games now delayed to next fiscal year.

"We expect substantial growth in the current financial year driven by a large number of high-quality releases, for which we are excited to the reception among gamers", said the company. "This growth will be underpinned by recent and upcoming new game releases such as Biomutant, Chorus, Deep Rock Galactic, Destroy all Humans!, Iron Harvest, MotoGP 20, Ride 4, Snowrunner, Wasteland 3, WWE2K Battlegrounds and a host of other titles that have not yet started their marketing campaigns."


The company continued:

"Looking into the next financial year ending March 31 2022, we expect continued organic growth driven by further increase in the value of completed games including the first AAA games releases since Metro Exodus. From this year on we expect to have AAA releases every year."


There's been no official word of when Saints Row 5 will release, but again, we know it will be revealed this year. That said, it looks like we will need to wait until sometime next year or possibly until early 2022 to play the game.



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JoeIPosted:

Haven't played saint row for some.m time now, will get new one when out

CovidPosted:

Jesus I haven't read about saints row in a long time, be good to see this!

JacobPosted:

Saints row will most likely never be as good as 1 and 2. I'm not instantly shutting down 5 but 3 and 4 were bad tbh.. I miss the old saints man

RyanPosted:

Gossip They gotta make it as good as Saints Row 1/2 for me to ever play it again.


I think they will, we expressed how we felt about 3. I hope they take it on board when making 4.

RyanPosted:

officialfred I had to come out of TTG retirement to comment on this, let me get started on how bad Saints Row fell off. 1 & 2 will be the best ones for them to come back with a banger the new one gotta be official & gangsta for the Saints Row name to be back!


Agreed, the third installment was not what I expected it to be.

RyanPosted:

RepMeDaddy Wow, I haven't played the Saints Row series in some time. Hard throw back.


Same here, I still go back from to time.

RyanPosted:

Man I sure hope we don't have to wait until 2022.

AnimePosted:

I haven't played saints row series in a long time. Sad to see it delayed.

GossipPosted:

They gotta make it as good as Saints Row 1/2 for me to ever play it again.

officialfredPosted:

I had to come out of TTG retirement to comment on this, let me get started on how bad Saints Row fell off. 1 & 2 will be the best ones for them to come back with a banger the new one gotta be official & gangsta for the Saints Row name to be back!