Time to preorder Gears 3

[mundus6]

CGI-Quality said:

mundus6 said:

CGI-Quality said:

gergroy said:

notice how my post said 4 years?  Now that you have said all that, it pretty much doesn't mean anything.  You are just re-saying exactly what I said with more words, good job.

But his and I's debate was about a 5 year dev cycle on games. 

In any event, you don't have to be so condescending, it's a simple debate.

Since the debate was with me how is it you say it was about development cycles? I ment five years as in 5 years after you hear the game is coming it actually comes out. I know very few games actually have that long development cycle and the few games that have, has usually been remade from scratch at least once.

But that's not an announcement, that's just you know a game is coming. I've "known" that a Halo 4 will be coming since Halo 3 launched, but I wouldn't claim it was announced in 2007. That's really all I was getting at.

Since you explained yourself a bit more, I can conclude this with a simple: fair enough. 

Games like Heavy Rain and The Last Guardian already had a title ( a trailer in Heavy Rains case) way before release, plus it was not just rumors the games where already in the planning phases. "Halo 4" wasn't even named "Halo 4" and we first heard about its new name 1 year before release. Of course it was in development since 2007. But my whole point with my little rant was that Microsoft usually keep their projects secret until 1 year or so in advance, Gears 2 for example everybody knew it was coming, but it was announced like 7 months before actual release. Sony usually mentions games before development even started, which is why i said 5 years. It was really an overstatement, but it sure feels like it and in some cases its true.