Hirai on Home Delay, future price cuts and MH3 going to Wii

[Kasz216]

TheBigFatJ said:

Kasz216 said:

TheBigFatJ said:
The thing bothers me about Sony's delays isn't that they're delaying the software. I think we can all agree that there is very few circumstances when a delay isn't a positive thing overall. My problem is with the fact that they announce delays very late -- well after the point for which it would be obvious the game is going to be delayed.

I can see some reasoning for this. The longer you wait, the more accurate your new release date will be. However, this is a far more insidious reason. Sony may want people to believe something is about to come out, even if they know it isn't close, because impending releases can sell consoles to certain people. So in this way, it's in Sony's interests to hide the fact that games are going to be delayed until as late as possible, then announce the delay and focus on the fact that it's a quality thing.

Home looks very ambitious. I think this is something Sony fans will be waiting for until 2009 or later.

Brawl's delay date seemed pretty sprung on people as well.

Yes, and Brawl's delay wasn't a "we need to finish this" delay or "we need to increase the quality" delay and it was less than two months.  Kojima himself said it looked ready for release more than 6 months ago. It was a business decision that there were too many releases coming out this holiday and Nintendo didn't want to overshadow them with Galaxy _and_ Brawl. They moved it to a slower, post-holiday period, and it may have been told to us as soon as Nintendo made that business decision.

For Nintendo, moving Brawl may have a very positive effect on third parties. It doesn't bother me at all because I have too many games to play right now anyhow and will undoutably be grateful for a fresh new exciting game during the post holiday lull.

My point with Sony is that they're delays are often > 6 month delays or sometimes even more than a year, but they'll hide that from people until the game is a couple months from release.  And when you're talking about a 6 month delay, this is going to be obvious when there's a year worth of work to complete on the game. 

 

I don't know about that. I remember when they were talking about how you could send pictures to your friends their was a blurred out button. Pink i believe, that they said would be awesome, but at the same time they might not have enough time to incorporate it into the game.  So it might be good or it might be nothing.  Maybe he was just being coy but i took it as a "this will be out if we don't meet the deadline."