Horizon: Zero Dawn laat nog tot begin 2017 op zich wachten. Dit uitstel ten opzichte van de eerdere geplande release in 2016 was volgens ontwikkelaar Guerrilla Games nodig vanwege de omvang van de game.
Volgens game director Mathijs de Jonge kan men de extra maanden tijd goed gebruiken om de grote spelwereld, vele quests en diverse regio’s te optimaliseren:
We have this open world. It’s very big. We have a lot of quests; we have a lot of different regions as well. We have a lot of different Machines. Just playtesting this, it’s very, very time-consuming. We have so many components. We just want to raise the quality on the different areas.Horizon: Zero Dawn verschijnt op 28 februari 2017 voor de PlayStation 4.The delay was mainly because it’s such a big game. We are a team of 200 people now, but there’s just a lot of content we need to look at and evaluate and keep improving.