Almost only Ps3 games get delayed..?

[Kantor]

Gnizmo said:

Kantor said:

Delayed by some two weeks. I don't think it really counts.

Having said that, they've had five bloody years to make the game, and they have no business delaying it by another day, let alone two weeks to a month.

It's a trademark case of overambition.

I can think of any number of reasons the game wouldn't be fully done yet. I'd say the most likely would be using their resources in different ways while waiting for the PS3 install base to some critical level so a lot of the critical work was done much more recently than one might expect. Second most likely would be a game breaking bug discovered at the last second that would be unacceptable to launch with. Also on the list would be marketing deciding that date X would increase revenue by Y% over critical period Z.

Fair enough for the first two, but the first is stupidity on Polyphony's part, the second really ought to have been discovered earlier, and as for changing date because of revenue... it's a few weeks before Black Friday. It's bang in the middle of the holiday season. Perhaps a delay to avoid releasing next to Kinect?

Really, if the third is true, it's probably launching on Black Friday week.