Maybe because of their record of releasing games with very few technical issues.
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Delayed games are a bummer but atleast it shows devolpers have faith in their games
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Maybe because of their record of releasing games with very few technical issues.
DownGrader
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Please remind me - what games were rushed by Nintendo? I honestly forgot about them.
I dont see what the big deal is. Look at the car industry where delays can sometimes span half a decade. Acura NSX should have been on sale years ago.
Neff
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Wind Waker and Super Mario Sunshine.
Wind Waker was famously fast-tracked to meet Gamecube's second christmas in Japan, and Mario Sunshine released to capitalise on Japan's 2002 summer. Both games featured slimmer content than normally expected, and abundant recycling/padding.
Platform-specific delays are often a lot more shady. It's been over 1.5 years for GTA V, if the game doesn't work great out of the box on release we can probably put the delays on financial decisions rather than actually needing more work to be done on the game.
I'd rather a game was delayed for all platforms and then released simultaneously than taking several months to release the PC version.
I'd rather a game was delayed for all platforms and then released simultaneously than taking several months to release the PC version.
So you want basically the Xbox One parity clause but for PC?
Do you want this so you can feel like a first-class customer?
Zen_Arcade
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The point of the OP is that all of those companies RELEASED games that had broken elements or bugs. He's crediting Nintendo for delaying the games instead of releasing broken products like other companies.
Nah, obviously that's not the point since Respawn have only released Titanfall, which worked just fine.
Why do they need to "take note"?
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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People like to cite that stupid quote about delayed games eventually being good despite it being proven inconsistent several times.
BibiMaghoo
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The thing is about time limits, is that people that love their work could happily work forever on something. They could spend 5 years tweaking things and adding features, then another five improving them still. There is always something that can be improved, and so for many a set amount of time is needed to get anything finished at all.
This is why roadmaps and such exist. It's not primarily to get things finished in the shortest amount of time, but to get them finished.
This is why roadmaps and such exist. It's not primarily to get things finished in the shortest amount of time, but to get them finished.
This makes no sense at all. Either they take their sweet time to ensure quality or they don't. I prefer the former.
Zelda has been delayed because of game design philosophy/issues not because of bugs otherwise they would easily show something at this e3.
The point of the thread it's totally Nintendo is better than others at delaying games, op mentions Rockstar and Evolution who delayed times and times again their games and they took a ton of shit from it but suddenly when nintendo does it they are the best even without seeing the result of the delay, pathetic.
I just wish they didnt announce release dates until they knew for sure that they were in the final stretches leading to launch. I also feel the same with pre-release footage. Dont drown us in footage of your game before it comes out. It makes it feel like the game has already came and passed. By the time it finally does release, I always feel like ive seen everything I need to and dont play it.
Basically, dont tell us something is coming unless its actually ready.
Basically, dont tell us something is coming unless its actually ready.
Nightengale
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I don't mind delays at all, but I wish devs/publishers would just with-hold announcing release windows/dates until they're at least 90% confident that they will hit that time-window, or that any delays are just 1-month optimisation/bug fixes, and not "game is more ambitious than planned, another 6 months!"
I have implicit trust of devs when they say game X will be out date Y. It's their project, it's their baby, they know their milestones and challenges better than anyone else. That's why I don't really partake in rumour mongering and speculating on 'potential delays', because I don't have any grounds to make that kind of guess-work without knowing about the state of development.
So it's two-ways frustrating, because now more games will be under the delaython scrutiny when talking about it.
I have implicit trust of devs when they say game X will be out date Y. It's their project, it's their baby, they know their milestones and challenges better than anyone else. That's why I don't really partake in rumour mongering and speculating on 'potential delays', because I don't have any grounds to make that kind of guess-work without knowing about the state of development.
So it's two-ways frustrating, because now more games will be under the delaython scrutiny when talking about it.
MR BLACKMAGIK
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I agree. After Assassin's Creed Unity and Master Chief Collection, I'm completely fine with delaying a game that needs more time.
family_guy
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I think most of the first announced release dates are complete fabricated BS done by publishers to increase hype, preorder sales, and console sales. Additionally they want to make themselves look good to shareholders. I don't think they ever intend to release in that window. I'll just use Uncharted 4 as an example. You're telling me that you know 8 months in advance that you won't hit your 2015 target? Then you probably knew that at the Playstation Experience event in December. I can't believe that after 4 months you just out of the blue realized you can't make your 2015 date.
Publishers don't even bother with gameplay trailers anymore. Let's show them a 30 second CGI trailer and put up preorders with DLC the next day before you've seen any of the game.
Publishers don't even bother with gameplay trailers anymore. Let's show them a 30 second CGI trailer and put up preorders with DLC the next day before you've seen any of the game.
Night Angel
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Most of those companies have delayed games to improve the product before release. We don't know exactly why Zelda is being delayed, it could be scope creep, bugs, lack of polish, or all of the above. This thread is confusing as shit because Nintendo is doing the exact same thing as all of those other devs.
OP, take note.
OP, take note.
InfiniteCombo
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Exactly. The level of blind Nintendo fanaticism from some here is truly unbelievable. Ugh.
As everyone has said, most (if not all) the developers/publishers listed in the OP have delayed their games for quality reasons.
How come OP didn't make this thread after Naughty Dog announced the delay of Uncharted 4?
Kabuki Waq
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I think after all the backlash over the clearly unfinished games last year devs are worried about it effecting sales.
InfiniteCombo
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What negativity? The OP is being called out (and deservedly so) for (1) putting Nintendo on a pedestal, and (2) providing a list of bad examples of other developers/publishers whose only "crime" was doing the same exact thing Nintendo is doing here.
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