ARK: Survival Evolved was originally supposed to exit Early Access on both Steam and Xbox One, as well as launch on PlayStation 4, sometime in June, but developer Studio Wildcard has announced via a press release, that the release has been pushed back to holiday 2016.
The press release did reveal, however, that the game has sold around 5 million units in Early Access, where 1 million of them have been shifted on Xbox One.
The delay will mean, that the developers will have more time to put more content into the final game:
"ARK's success has increased our content goals and Early Access players have helped us raise our ambitions with their invaluable feedback. When we first announced, we said 70 dinos, now we'll have over 100. We never anticipated adding modding, local multiplayer, split screen, or numerous other upcoming features. The game at launch will be far more robust than originally conceived, but it takes a little extra time to wrap it all up," said Studio Wildcard co-founder Jesse Rapczak of the delay and success of the Early Access version.