Regular and limited editions
Official release date[]
The release date was the 31 October 2006 [1].
Original release date[]
The official NWN2 release date was originally listed as "summer 2006", and Obsidian stated that they were "shooting for a June 2006" release. However, over time, the original date seemed less and less likely, and game stores and the media started estimating a September release. An increasing number of hints were dropped concerning the changing release date before Atari announced the September revised date. [2] [3]
In early July 2006, a journalist from the French magazine Joystick stated that the game is far from finished and speculated that the game may not be released in September. [4] On 18 July, Atari announced that the release date was being pushed back another month to 17 October 2006 in the United States and 20 October in Europe. "Given the sheer size and scope of Neverwinter Nights 2 and its 50 to 60-hour single player campaign, it was decided to move the global release date of Neverwinter Nights 2 out a month to late October," Atari said in a statement. [5] [6] [7]
In mid September 2006, NWVault revealed that the release date was pushed back to Halloween, October 31st, 2006 [8].
Estimated release dates[]
NWN2 box cover @ Amazon.com
Below, for posterity, are the older estimated release dates by global location and web site.
If a release location was unspecified, then the business location of that web site was used. If the business location was also unspecified, then it's assumed that it was a global release date (in most cases US/EU only).
Note: The release dates given by those web sites were assumptions by them and thus they weren't official release dates given by Obsidian, and on a further note, some of the following sites listed have since either removed or changed their estimated/listed dates.
Global/Unspecified[]
- 1UP: 09/01/2006
- ActionTrip: Sep 19, 06
- AOL Games: 10/17/06
- EB Games: 10/17/06
- Eurogamer: 20th Oct 2006
- GameDAILY: Spring 06
- GamePro: 11/30/2006
- Game Rankings: 10/17/2006
- Games.net: November 2006
- GameSpot: Oct 17, 2006
- Gamestop: 10/17/06
- Playfuls.com: 17.10.2006
- Rotten Tomatoes: Oct 18, 2006
- StrategyInformer: September 2006
- TotalVideoGames: 20 Oct 2006
- Yahoo! Video Games: 19 Sep 2006
North America[]
Released at 31st October
- Amazon.com: USA, October 17, 2006
- Buy.com: USA(Business location: California), 10/18/2006
- IGN: USA, October 17, 2006 *Metacritic: USA, October 1, 2006
- Release-Dates.net: USA, October 17, 2006
South America[]
There was a release date by Atari Brazil once, but the site is gone.
Europe[]
Germany: Released at 2nd November
United Kingdoms: Released at 2nd November
France: Released at 2nd November
- Atari Germany: Germany, 2. November 2006
- CVG: Great Britain, N/A (Release date removed)
- erscheinungstermine.de: Germany, 2. November 2006
- Play.com UK, 03/11/2006
- Puolenkuun Pelit: Finland, 03.11.2006
- Softxchange.dk: Denmark, 03.11.2006
- Gameplay.co.uk: UK, 03/11/2006
Australia[]
- Neverwinter Nights Down Under: 16.11.2006
- Neverwinter Nights Two Forums: 16.11.2006
Asia[]
Release Dates too inaccurate.
- Atari Korea: Korea, TBA
- Atari Taiwan: Taiwan, 2006/11/8
- gdex.co.jp: Japan, 2006, 10, 31