Tales of Arise Producer Yusuke Tomizawa recently announced that the upcoming JRPG will not be launching this year.
Tomizawa announced the delay recently with a message. Here it is in full length:
As you may have already seen in media stories and on our social media channels, we have made the decision to delay the launch timing of “Tales of Arise”, the latest title in the “Tales of” series.
The goal for Tales of Arise is to provide a familiar but innovative gameplay experience to fans of the series, while pushing the technical envelope to deliver a high level of graphical quality to impress both long-time players and those who have never played a Tales of game. Development on the title has move steadily forward in 2020 as we overcame challenges along the way.
While COVID-19 has affected some aspects of development, we’ve done our best to adapt to the situation and have implemented remote development capabilities for our team.
However, to achieve the quality and provide the gorgeous experience we envision for our players, we will need more time to realize that vision and therefore we decided to delay the launch timing for Tales of Arise.
A new launch window update will be provided once we have more details to share.
In the meantime, the determination of our development team has not weakened. It is always darkest before the dawn, as illustrated in the image below. We hope you will join us as a bring a new Tales of adventure to light.
More updates will be shared once the development team is ready to announce a new launch window. They would like to extend their appreciation and thank the media partners and the fans for their patience and continued support the game. It is set to launch on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
Source: Press Release