I think they are, look at games like Crackdown, Shenmue 3, Final Fantasy 7 remake (next gen?) and Kingdom Hearts 3 and The last of us 2 and many others.
When they got announced I was extremely hyped, now I am just thinking, release the game already, and the hype I once felt is pretty much gone.

Personally I think when you announce a game release it in 12 months or don't announce it, one year of waiting is more then enough.

True but they didn’t need keep feeding us trailers all these years with no release date. Sure we knew it was coming at some point, but it was radio silence ever since that announcement. 

Kingdom hearts has had numerous trailers and ffvii r had I think two and some screenshots but still nothing since. 

Crackdown 3 has also had a few trailers over the years but still not out. 

So resident evil is a bit different. We just saw the first two beautiful trailers and a few Gameplay videos during e3 and now it’s already out in January. 

I think that games are sometime showed off really early not for us gamers but for satisfying the shareholders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j14e9zTnVbk

From Dinasty Warriors like to Dark Souls like. It's the same project, mind you.

Considering that Ni-oh was cancelled and then brought back when they figured they could make something Souls like, it would be like Blizzard re-announcing Starcraft Ghost. The work that was done over a decade has really nothing to do with whatever they'd do now.

If Half Life 3 was announced next year as the "one more thing" to cap Sony or Microsoft conference for their next gen systems how far off could it be coming out and you'd still be fine with it?

2 years? 3? 4? 5? 6?

Better to have it too early than too late lol Also im flooded with games to play all the time so announcing games early just makes it better to know what I have to look forward to in the future, and possibly prepare my wallet.  It doesn't affect my gaming life in any negative way.

Also, ever saw a movie trailer and we all thought 'man that looks like garbage' ...well at that point its too late to change the movie, but not for video games if shown early enough :P

That's what Iw as thinking. When you've got a project that's quite old and old assets that are highly unlikely to be used, you pretty much end up seeing the project being picked up and taken to a different point. We saw it with SC Ghosts in the form of mini campaign DLC, content that also changed drastically from what we were originally shown. Ni-Oh seems to have taken that same route over time.

From the technical perspective, yes, but from the marketing perspective I'd say it's still a too early announcement issue.

Wow, thats actually crazy. It looked nothing like it does now which means they probably canned it a couple times during development and reimagined it. I didn't hear about it until it was close to release. Its funny how it didn't receive any attention unlike TLG and FF Versus.