Apophis2036
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Iwata does not want to try and compete with Watch Dogs.
OK, I remembered wrong then. I thought that a solid date was given for 3DW prior to DK getting delayed and 3DW moved up into its release date. If (and I do mean if) the game was finished early would that be enough of a reason to sit on it though?No. Listen:
1) At E3 2013, Nintendo announced a generic, tentative release date of "December 2013" to Super Mario 3D World
2) In late August, Nintendo clarified and stated Super Mario 3D World would definitively release on November 22nd, nine days before December. They did not waver from that final date
That is much, MUCH more different than Mario Kart 8's case.
When Nintendo definitively reveals a release date, they orient every further action around that particular date. Everything is meticulously planned to meet that particular date. If Nintendo announced "May 2013" and released it in late April, I could understand...but no...it's a lot harder for Nintendo to announce a date and then suddenly roll that date back an entire month on a whim.
It doesn't make sense for their company to do such an action.
No. Listen:
1) At E3 2013, Nintendo announced a generic, tentative release date of "December 2013" to Super Mario 3D World
2) In late August, Nintendo clarified and stated Super Mario 3D World would definitively release on November 22nd, nine days before December. They did not waver from that final date
That is much, MUCH more different than Mario Kart 8's case.
When Nintendo definitively reveals a release date, they orient every further action around that particular date. Everything is meticulously planned to meet that particular date. If Nintendo announced "May 2013" and released it in late April, I could understand...but no...it's a lot harder for Nintendo to announce a date and then suddenly roll that date back an entire month on a whim.
It doesn't make sense for their company to do such an action.
That's exactly what they did with Wind Waker though, IIRC. Not the standard retail disc, but digital came out early with a surprise announcement.
Well yeah they can do it much more easily with digital, but physical retail is entirely different beast.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/03/25/nintendo-refutes-mario-kart-8as-early-release-date
The launch date of Mario Kart 8 has not changed, Nintendo told IGN.
Shucks. Well May will be here in no time.
But what if they do ?No. Listen:
1) At E3 2013, Nintendo announced a generic, tentative release date of "December 2013" to Super Mario 3D World
2) In late August, Nintendo clarified and stated Super Mario 3D World would definitively release on November 22nd, nine days before December. They did not waver from that final date.
That is much, MUCH more different than Mario Kart 8's case.
When Nintendo definitively reveals a release date, they orient every further action around that particular date. Everything is meticulously planned to meet that particular date. If Nintendo announced "May 2013" and released it in late April, I could understand...but no...it's a lot harder for Nintendo to announce a date and then suddenly roll that date back an entire month on a whim.
It doesn't make sense for their company to do such an action.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/03/25/nintendo-refutes-mario-kart-8as-early-release-date
The launch date of Mario Kart 8 has not changed, Nintendo told IGN.
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It's cancelled!
Except that it never was slated for April...The Wii U sales these next 2 months are going to be shit heh heh. They should just mive it anyway. I remember when it was going to be originally April. I wonder if they were hoping Smash would fill the summer months? But seems they want smash to destroy X and Bayonetta sales during the holidays? What are these guys doing? Lmao.
May 30th is faaaaaaar too long. Especially when there's nothing in between for a good 2 months.
The Wii U sales these next 2 months are going to be shit heh heh. They should just mive it anyway. I remember when it was going to be originally April. I wonder if they were hoping Smash would fill the summer months? But seems they want smash to destroy X and Bayonetta sales during the holidays? What are these guys doing? Lmao.
Shovel Knight, Child of Light, and NES Remix 2 are all April. GBA Virtual Console stuff starts too. And The Hobbit if you're not sick to death of Lego games. So there's some good stuff, just not retail discs.
Shovel Knight, Child of Light, and NES Remix 2 are all April. GBA Virtual Console stuff starts too. And The Hobbit if you're not sick to death of Lego games. So there's some good stuff, just not retail discs.
* Why do you laugh that the Wii U sales will be shit? That gives you pleasure?
* What does mive mean? I don't know what you're trying to convey.
* It was never April. It was "2014" and then "Spring 2014" before it got a date.
* Smash, X, and Bayonetta are all holiday titles now? Where do you get your release dates from?
* You're mocking Nintendo over release dates you made up in your head
Sorry, I don't mean to come off rude. Just your post is not really accurate.
- I laugh, because at this point it's just so ridiculous. What else can you do?
- Typo, I was on my iphone, I meant "move".
- May 30th is barely Spring anymore (arguably of course).
- Where else are these titles going to fall that they will actually profit from? Smash will sell well and have long legs so it doesn't matter where it is released. The other two titles despite how good they are will not last as long. If Nintendo releases them instead of Smash in the summer, no one will buy them, if they expect Kart to ride them to a holiday release of Smash (which looks to be the case from my opinion) and also pad the 3rd and 4th quarter with these games Smash will make sure they don't sell either.
- But I'm guessing they may try and throw out Hyrule Warriors for the summer. I don't know, all in all this was a pretty bad fuck up for the first half of the year. I am guessing DK Tropical Freeze was mainly delayed to prevent a 5-6 month drought.
Back to reality.
has a game ever been changed to come out earlier?
[*]May 30th is barely Spring anymore (arguably of course).