The Medium Gets Delayed Briefly Due To COVID and Market Factors

Written by Brandon Hofer on November 06, 2020

News: If you have been looking forward to playing The Medium you will have to wait a few extra weeks to try it out.

Earlier in the year Medium from Bloober Team was unveiled for the Xbox Series X and it looked pretty amazing. It has a potentially revolutionary feature of rendering and being able to play two completely different worlds, at the same time, on the same screen. Medium was originally slated to be released in December 2020 but due to challenges brought on by COVID and other market factors, Medium has been pushed back to January 28, 2021. The full statement from Bloober Team is below.

”After much careful thought and consideration, today we have made the difficult decision to delay the launch of The Medium to January 28, 2021.

It wasn’t an easy choice to make, but one made due to the COVID-19 situation in Poland, as well as the current schedule of other games on the market. Bloober Team remains committed to delivering our biggest, most ambitious, fear-inducing experience to date.

The additional development time will allow us to add further polish, ensuring we deliver our innovative, genre-pushing vision of interactive psychological horror. Rest assured, the delay will not stop us sharing information with you, and you can expect us to unravel a few more layers of the Medium’s great mystery soon.

Stay tuned and stay safe.”

COVID-19 is still a very real and very lethal global pandemic right so it makes sense that it has affected production of The Medium. This is also purely speculation on my part but I think the market factors part is Cyberpunk 2077. With their new December 10 release date The Medium would have been competing directly with Cyberpunk and that would not have been a wise decision.

Do you plan on picking up The Medium when it launches in January? Tell us what you think below.

source: Twitter