Days Gone moves back to a new April 2019 release

PlayStation has announced that Days Gone is taking a little more time in the shop, before it releases, with it slipping from its February 22nd release date, to a new one on April 26th.

Asad Qizilbash, Vice President of Marketing at Sony Interactive America made the statement about the delay:

We want to share a change in release date for this highly anticipated title from Bend Studio. We recently decided to move the release of Days Gone from the crowded February timeframe to April 26, 2019. While the studio is eager to see Days Gone in the hands of fans, Bend Studio will take the opportunity to further polish Days Gone.
As PlayStation fans already know, Days Gone is an open-world action game set in the high-desert of the Pacific Northwest. Traversing harsh landscapes on their drifter bike, players must fight for resources as they attempt to survive broken roads, unpredictable weather, attacks from other human factions, infected wildlife and roaming Freakers — a brutal, dynamic world that is dangerous both day and night.

I went hands on with the game at E3 2018 and its good, so hopefully the added dev time can only make it better.