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Earlier Release Date in 2019

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This may have been answered before, but I would love to know why the yearly game release (at least on console, in the United States) always falls at the end of F1's summer break?

I understand that development, marketing, packaging, distribution, etc., dictates a huge amount of time, but I would think that the target market is in need of their Formula 1 fix DURING the month-long break, and would love to be playing the game then. I know I would have. When F1's return finally rolled around at Spa, my priorities obviously were with the real thing, and I didn't play much of F1 2018 until post-race, anyway.

Is a two-week-earlier release a lot to ask for next year?

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Well tbh they’ve got all year to develop it. God knows why there are so many bugs now but personally I wouldn’t mind waiting for a product which is actually finished

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Well tbh they’ve got all year to develop it. God knows why there are so many bugs now but personally I wouldn’t mind waiting for a product which is actually finished
It's not just developing though. It's an official licensed game that needs stuff signing off from FOM and teams which also takes time... 

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Id rather of waited till Jan 2019 for F1 2018 personally start the new season with a new game, makes no sence for mid season realise, off topic I only got it early cause my local store had a sale on the day of realise :/ , plus had some credit from a previous purchase.

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Yea I cant see why we have to waite till end of shut down especialy when the hasent been any major rule changes were this year was mainly halo and if we got it before shut down would give people time to get upto speed before season starts again and get some of the major bugs fixed my guess is the need to let the youtubers to have the game for a few weeks first to convince everyone how flawless the game is only to buy it and find a hole load of bugs 

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They tried an earlier release (June) in 2015. It ended up being delayed a month and it was still missing almost every feature people were expecting. I doubt they'll try that again.

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