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[Goron2000]

GTAIII - Vice City 1 year/9months development

 

[AniHawk]

Metroid Fusion - Metroid: Other M: 8 years (2002-2010)
Jak and Daxter - Jak and Daxter 2: 8 years (2001-2009)

 

[SuperÑ]

Call of Duty series.

 

[RomanticHeroX]

There was a nearly 4 year gap between Suikoden III and IV, but just over a year between IV and V. And that's not even considering Suikoden Tactics.

 

[Send in the Clowns]

The Great Giana Sisters released in 1987, DS version 2009.

Possibly doesn't count, rules were hardly specified.

 

[Rezbit]

Metroid Fusion - Metroid: Other M: 8 years (2002-2010)
Jak and Daxter - Jak and Daxter 2: 8 years (2001-2009)

:lol Funny man.

 

[njr]

Bleach: Heat of the Soul series on PSP, 6 games within the time frame of 4 years...

 

[Cat in the Hat]

Blizzard games

 

[p01ar]

Wasn't KOTOR to KOTOR 2 like 11 months?

 

[AniHawk]

Bit.Trip Beat: March 16, 2009
Bit.Trip Core: July 9, 2009

Less than four months. In your face, space coyote.

 

[hiredhand]

The Longest:
The Legend of Kage (arcade) 1985
The Legend of Kage 2 (DS) 2008
-----> 23 YEARS

The Shortest:
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 (Wii) March 13, 2007
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 (Wii) August 28, 2007
-----> ABOUT 5 MONTHS

 

[KevinCow]

Not the longest, but some pretty long ones:

Super Metroid (March '94) to Metroid Prime and Fusion (November '02) - 8 years
Banjo-Tooie (November '00) to Nuts 'n' Bolts (November '08) - 8 years
A Boy and his Blob ('90) to A Boy and his Blob Wii (TBA) - 19+ years

Metroid Fusion - Metroid: Other M: 8 years (2002-2010)
Jak and Daxter - Jak and Daxter 2: 8 years (2001-2009)

Man, I must be psychic, because I saw this post from you, word for word, when I read the thread title.

 

[Totobeni]

.Hack in Japan

.hack//Infection , June 20, 2002
.hack//Mutation , September 9, 2002
.hack//Outbreak , December 12, 2002
.hack//Quarantine , April 10, 2003

 

[Rated-Rsuperstar]

The Ratchet and Clank series followed a one year development cycle on ps2.

 

[ProfessorLobo]

I think most of the ones people are listing shouldn't count.

Warcraft - Warcraft 2 - 9 months.

 

[Loaded Man]

Shortest: Tiger Woods '07 (Wii) (March 13, 2007)
Tiger Woods '08 (Wii) (August 28, 2007)

 

[HK-47]

Wasn't KOTOR to KOTOR 2 like 11 months?

Yup

 

[Yoshi]

There were longer spans mentioned yet, but 11 years went by between Yoshis Island (1995) and Yoshis Island DS (2006).

 

[Metal Gear?!]

The Longest:
The Legend of Kage (arcade) 1985
The Legend of Kage 2 (DS) 2008
-----> 23 YEARS

Well that beats Bionic Commando

 

[Diablohead]

Sonic the Hedgehog 3

Released in US: February 2, 1994
Released in EU: February 24, 1994
Released in JP: May 27, 1994

Sonic & Knuckles

Released in US: October 18, 1994
Released in EU: October 18, 1994
Released in JP: November 1994

So you could say May 27th - Oct 18th which is about 6 months

 

[Drkirby]

Has anything beaten the 3 months between Wario Ware Touch and Wario Ware Twisted in NA?

02/24/05 > 05/23/05

 

[Smash88]

That's gotta be pretty close. How long was it?

364 days... -_-

Not even a year....not ev-- *walks away*

 

[Graphics Horse]

The Longest:
The Legend of Kage (arcade) 1985
The Legend of Kage 2 (DS) 2008
-----> 23 YEARS

Nice!

There's also
Ultra Pong Doubles (1977)
Pong: The Next Level (1999)

 

[pakkit]

PES 2009 Wii - May 31, 2009
PES 2010 Wii - October 2009

 

[Jangaroo]

The Longest:
The Legend of Kage (arcade) 1985
The Legend of Kage 2 (DS) 2008
-----> 23 YEARS

And the wait was oh so worth it. Great game.

 

[manofmandango]

Completely unrelated but, :lol

 

[Rlan]

One of the very short ones:

Sonic 3 - February 2, 1994
Sonic & Knuckles - October 18, 1994

8 months.

 

[Jin]

The Shortest:
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 (Wii) March 13, 2007
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 (Wii) August 28, 2007
-----> ABOUT 5 MONTHS

What the hell?

 

[Bluth54]

Team Fortress Classic May 1999
Team Fortress 2 October 2007

 

[Chao]

NiGHTS into dreams... July 5, 1996
NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams December 13, 2007

Was it worth the wait?

 

[Whimsical Phil]

Shortest:

Released on THE SAME DAY! That's March 19, 2003 for those keeping score.

And yes, I know that they're not technically sequels, but in another way, yes, they technically are.

 

[hiredhand]

The OP didn't specify that the games had to be video games. So...

Risk (Board game) 1959
Risk II (PC, Mac) 2000
------> 41 YEARS!

 

[Tolkienfanatic]

L4D2, 364 days after L4D.

 

[Drkirby]

Shortest:

Released on THE SAME DAY! That's March 19, 2003 for those keeping score.

And yes, I know that they're not technically sequels, but in another way, yes, they technically are.

:lol

Ok, then I guess after that, would follow these two. Though we have to stretch it a bit by taking the soonest release date for each version

Came out December 2, 2002 in NA

Came out December 13, 2002 in Japan.

So thats 10 days between 2 main line Zelda games. Also, it makes Four Swords to first game to Feature Toon Link, not Wind Waker :lol

 

[Parham]

Brothers in Arms

Road to Hill 30: March 1, 2005
Earned in Blood: October 4, 2005

Little over seven months

 

[Man God]

Metroid Fusion - Metroid: Other M: 8 years (2002-2010)
Jak and Daxter - Jak and Daxter 2: 8 years (2001-2009)

I don't get what problem you have with Zero Mission! :lol

On a more serious note Bionic Commando had a semi-decent sequel on the GBC, breaking an otherwise very resonable nominee for this thread.

 

[KevinCow]

Oh oh oh.

Soonest:

Released on the same day.

 

[bigosc2k]

Megaman X5 2/1/2001
Megaman X6 12/4/2001

Only 10 months apart

Melee 12/2/2001
Brawl 3/9/2008

6 Years and 3 months

 

[MightyHedgehog]

According to Wiki...

Super Mario Bros. - September 13th, 1985 (Japan)
Super Mario Bros. 2 - June 3rd, 1986 (Japan)

Might not be the shortest ever, but for such a major release that is actually an official sequel (like, it uses a '2' in its title) it is notable.

 

[LINK.AGE76]

The first 3 Layton games in Japan:

15 February, 2007 for the first one, November 29, 2007 for the 2nd, and November 27, 2008 for the third one.

 

[Uncle AJ]

Weren't the first two Brothers In Arms games only 8 months apart in the same year?

 

[Parham]

Weren't the first two Brothers In Arms games only 8 months apart in the same year?

Actually it was seven months, but you were pretty close.

Brothers in Arms

Road to Hill 30: March 1, 2005
Earned in Blood: October 4, 2005

Little over seven months

 

[LiK]

Left 4 Dead 2 :lol

Half-Life 2: Episode 3

first reply wins.

 

[Shig]

The Longest:
The Legend of Kage (arcade) 1985
The Legend of Kage 2 (DS) 2008
-----> 23 YEARS

Yep, I was gonna say this.

 

[Chauncy Talon]

Longest
Chrono Cross to Chrono Breaker (Square Enix have no date)

Shortest
Fallout 3 DLC. A new one every three weeks.

 

[xfactor]

Yeah I don't think anything is going to surpass this


NES Bionic Commando - 1998

21 years pass

Bionic Commando PC/PS3/360 - 2009


Unless you consider the new BC to only be a sequel to ReArmed, which changed a few things from the NES one. Also it hasn't been that long since the last (unrelated) entry in the series, which was Elite Forces in 2000.

2009 - 1998 = 11

 

[Narpas Sword0]

Pac Man to Pac Man CE

 

[Drkirby]

Longest
Chrono Cross to Chrono Breaker (Square Enix have no date)

Shortest
Fallout 3 DLC. A new one every three weeks.

Chrono Cross came out just 9 years ago in NA, its going to take quite a while to catch up to some of the things in here.

 

[nincompoop]

Does Spelunker HD count as a sequel? If so, once it comes out it'll be 26+ years since the original release. If not, the title should go to Legend of Kage 2, which came out 23 years after the original.

 

[Grayman]

2009 - 1998 = 11

Bionic Commando came out in 1988 not 1998