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[king zell]

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/rdzj/info.html

i was looking forward for the game news this month , it was supposed to come out on July third .

 

[Mr. Pointy]

Maybe it's getting some more polish.

 

[Mike Works]

you know what this game needs?

a giant hammer.

 

[VOOK]

:lol I'm freaking Nostradamus.

Q3 = Freaking EMPTY

 

[MisterHero]

CHABUDAI GAESHI

 

[Mdk7]

Disaster aka game of the E3 confirmed.
BELIEVE.

 

[Captain Smoker]

Google Translate:

Daily patronage of our products are, Thank you.

Now, on July 3, 2008 (Thursday) and was scheduled to Release Wii software-only "DISASTER DAY OF CRISIS (Disaster Day of Crisis)" I had to extend the period of development, better quality and customer Delivery for the day we postpone it.
The changes after the launch, we have defined us as soon as bon appétit, so I thank you for your understanding, Sincerely.

Distribution and customer relationships of everyone in your frustration and a deeply apologize.

 

[jts]

Canned?

 

[Mr. Pointy]

Delayed for more polish or development hell or something.

 

[Tenbatsu]

Cannot be worse than farking RYGAR!!

 

[Cosmonaut X]

Canned?

You're joking, right? The game was at a stage where NCL were distributing promotional material with a firm release date – I really can’t see it getting binned at this late stage.

 

[jts]

You're joking, right? The game was at a stage where NCL were distributing promotional material with a firm release date – I really can’t see it getting binned at this late stage.

Yes i am This one is gonna rock

Spoiler

hopefully

.

 

[Mr. Pointy]

I really can't wait for Iwata's interview with Sugiura.

Iwata: (laughs)
Sugiura: (laughs)

 

[Lobster]

Cannot be worse than farking RYGAR!!

Hardest port ever.

 

[Myke Greywolf]

"Disaster" is the right word.

 

[Jinfash]

can't seem to remember much about this game (except a couple of nice looking screens)
can someone plz remind me of this game's hype? it gets mentioned a lot by Wii owners.

EDIT: oh and to be on topic: the delay really sucks

 

[BrodiemanTTR]

Jesus Christ, this game. Just release it, no one even cares!

 

[jts]

can't seem to remember much about this game (except a couple of nice looking screens)
can someone plz remind me of this game's hype? it gets mentioned a lot by Wii owners.

EDIT: oh and to be on topic: the delay really sucks

Monolith Soft was bought by Nintendo during the making of this game. Nuff said

 

[batbeg]

can't seem to remember much about this game (except a couple of nice looking screens)
can someone plz remind me of this game's hype? it gets mentioned a lot by Wii owners.

EDIT: oh and to be on topic: the delay really sucks

The screens look fugly, the concept sounds like a clusterfuck, and the story sounds like 24.

WHEN WILL WE KNOW MORE?! ;.;

 

[pitt_norton]

Jesus Christ, this game. Just release it, no one even cares!

I care

 

[Jinfash]

Monolith Soft was bought by Nintendo during the making of this game. Nuff said

ohhhhh monolith soft is developing, ok hype (or what's left of it) is justified...

 

[DXB-KNIGHT]

I hope this delay is for planning a marketing strategy.

 

[Eteric Rice]

Nintendo buys Monolith.
Monolith gets Nintendo's delay syndrome.

It's CONTAGEOUS!

 

[Ganondorf>Link]

This game better be triple-fucking-A with all these damn delays. I remember back when before the Wii launched and there was an IGN interview where the developer had said the game was near completion. Now it's almost 2 years later and still not released.

 

[Creamium]

I was right about project hammered when I thought it'd never see the light of day, but I thought the same of this one. Please never come out so my intuition can be validated again

 

[Ysiadmihi]

Delayed to include balance board support.

...well, I think it would be kind of cool anyway

 

[Mr. Pointy]

Dude, Disaster will be fucking godlike.

Reggie will show it at E3, everyone in the audience will be completely blown away, every magazine or gaming site will give it 5/5 or 10/10 or 100/100 and it'll sell 25 million copies.

Or not.

 

[Vagabundo]

Has someone upended all their tea tables?

Spoiler

Miyamoto: (laughs)

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

Hmm. And it was less than a week ago that I thought

If it's May and NCL is saying something's out in July, it's out in July.

was pretty sound.

 

[Shiggy]

In fact, the EU date was also pushed from the end of May to TBD.

 

[The-Switcher]

Goddammit.

 

[Stumpokapow]

I'd say there was a pretty obviously an issue with late development.

Consider this:
- European retailer leaks that had in the past been reliable had the title schedule for a late spring release (in Europe)
- Title has been "mostly done" since late 2006.
- NCL does not generally release a specific date for release unless things are almost almost almost done
- This date was issued in a financial document, not the slightly less official-y PR channels. While there are safe harbour provisions related to forward-looking statements, investors are not happy if companies actually have to say "WHOOPS SAFE HARBOUR!"
- The date was announced with product promo posters, which are generally to help bolster retail awareness.

Definitely a last-minute issue--either that, or the devs put the product in the can and it didn't focus test well at all.

 

[VOOK]

I really can't wait for Iwata's interview with Sugiura.

Iwata: (laughs)
Sugiura: (laughs)

VOOK: (laughs)

 

[Halcyon776]

ugh! I was looking forward to this too! Now Nintendo's only hardcore game slated to be hopefully released this year is Sadness...

at least the 3rd party line-up is becoming pretty solid for this year...

 

[kottila]

ugh! I was looking forward to this too! Now Nintendo's only hardcore game slated to be hopefully released this year is Sadness...

at least the 3rd party line-up is becoming pretty solid for this year...

Wut? Is this some new type of sarcasm?

 

[batbeg]

ugh! I was looking forward to this too! Now Nintendo's only hardcore game slated to be hopefully released this year is Sadness...

at least the 3rd party line-up is becoming pretty solid for this year...

. . .

NeoGAF will not be kind to you.

 

[Mithos Yggdrasill]

 

[sprocket]

Its not coming out. Games like this and project hammer where being made in case waggle totally failed. Since it didn't Nintendo is shifting focus to waggle centric games.

 

[Halcyon776]

. . .

NeoGAF will not be kind to you.

How so? I don't see anything wrong with my statement...

 

[Epiphyte]

Its not coming out. Games like this and project hammer where being made in case waggle totally failed. Since it didn't Nintendo is shifting focus to waggle centric games.

I hate to tell you, but Hammer was waggliscious

 

[Stumpokapow]

Its not coming out. Games like this and project hammer where being made in case waggle totally failed. Since it didn't Nintendo is shifting focus to waggle centric games.

hurrrrrrrr

How so? I don't see anything wrong with my statement...

Sadness is a fake game made by a fake company who isn't Nintendo and its fake release date isn't 2008 anyway?

 

[sprocket]

I hate to tell you, but Hammer was waggliscious

yeah but in a crappy not needed at all way.

 

[Exempted]

yeah but in a crappy not needed at all way.

So... it would have failed with waggle? That's a pretty weird backup plan, one that fails if the thing its backing up fails. :\

 

[Mithos Yggdrasill]

Nintendo is not happy with the result is seems.

I care

Me too.

 

[Tyrone Slothrop]

wait... so people are dumb enough to think this will come out within a month's time? :lol

edit: ah, july. thought it said june. but still, this is at least 3 months away. we've seen nothing. think about it.

 

[Halcyon776]

hurrrrrrrr



Sadness is a fake game made by a fake company who isn't Nintendo and its fake release date isn't 2008 anyway?

I apologize that I didn't know this

 

[Epiphyte]

yeah but in a crappy not needed at all way.

Which is why they canned it

Not because it was part of some secret third pillar if Wii Sports failed

 

[F#A#Oo]

Miyamoto...Table...= further development

 

[Stumpokapow]

I apologize that I didn't know this

Seriously?

I didn't mean to be rude, then! It's okay not to know something. With GAF though sometimes you assume that if someone says something that isn't quite right, it's because they're being a jerk.

Sadness is being "developed" by Nibris (a Polish company). They do not have Wii development kits as far as anyone can tell. They're not properly licenced. The game has been announced for years, but no resources from the game have ever been released. They've went through several publishers who have dumped them. They've also passed off art for other projects as art for Sadness, which is a very sleazy thing to do.

 

[Cosmonaut X]

Nintendo is not happy with the result is seems.

What, and they had to wait to 6 weeks before release to decide that? This is the stage where the game should be going gold and they start gearing up for it hitting the shelves. They would have to have been remarkably – and uncharacteristically – hands-off with Monolith Soft to have let it get to this point before they decided there was a problem with the game itself.

At this stage, I can only imagine there’s been an issue during the final testing phases, or some kind of issue separate from the game itself that is causing the delay (marketing, manufacturing etc.)