{"id":370538,"date":"2026-06-19T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=370538"},"modified":"2026-06-19T08:52:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:52:04","slug":"onimusha-way-of-the-sword-may-launch-three-weeks-early-retailer-lists-september-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/onimusha-way-of-the-sword-may-launch-three-weeks-early-retailer-lists-september-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Onimusha: Way of the Sword may launch three weeks early: retailer lists September 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Onimusha: Way of the Sword<\/a> may be coming a little earlier than expected. A Canadian retailer has it listed for September 4, 2026<\/strong>. If that date is accurate, the game would be moving up, but right now it’s still just a rumor. Capcom’s only official date is still September 25, 2026, and the company reiterated that in early June.<\/p>\n

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Reports also say Japanese promo materials are still using the September 25, 2026<\/strong> date.<\/p>\n\n

Retail listings do sometimes tip a real release-date change before a publisher says anything. They also end up being placeholders, clerical slipups, or backend errors all the time. Capcom only restated the September 25<\/strong> launch in early June, so if this September 4 listing is legit, Onimusha: Way of the Sword would be arriving about three weeks early.<\/p>\n\n

If you’ve been waiting for the first completely new mainline Onimusha<\/a> in more than 18 years<\/strong>, this is worth keeping an eye on. A September 4 release would give the early Edo-era action RPG<\/a>, starring Miyamoto Musashi with a likeness modeled after Toshiro Mifune, a bit more room before Control Resonant and Silent Hill: Townfall show up.<\/p>\n\n

Both Control Resonant and Silent Hill: Townfall are reportedly slated for September 24<\/strong>. If that holds, the gap could matter more than it sounds like it would. Word of mouth, review coverage, streaming attention, pre-order momentum, all of that gets tighter when releases start piling up on top of each other.<\/p>\n\n

Player reactions so far have gone both ways. Some of you are happy at the thought of getting the game sooner. Others are wary that a sudden shift in the date could point to a rushed<\/strong> final stretch.<\/p>\n\n

While Capcom decides whether September 25<\/strong> is staying put, or says otherwise, you can at least try the playable demo<\/a> that went live on June 3, 2026.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Onimusha: Way of the Sword may be coming a little earlier than expected. A Canadian retailer has it listed for September 4, 2026. If that date is accurate, the game would be moving up, but right now it’s still just a rumor. Capcom’s only official date is still September 25, 2026, and the company reiterated … Continue reading “Onimusha: Way of the Sword may launch three weeks early: retailer lists September 4”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9226,"featured_media":370537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-370538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370539,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370538\/revisions\/370539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370538"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=370538"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=370538"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=370538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}