| zerosaurus said: @dschumm I have to disagree with you on what causes delays. Partially what you said is true, but the biggest reason for delays is unrealistic expectations from management. First you have a greedy sales force and higher ups pushing for the earliest possible release date to keep consumers happy, they ask for an estimate from the engineering management team, chop off six months maybe even a year that would have been alotted for development and expect the developers to meet said timeframe. Then the engineering team realizes they can't acquire more resources because that would effect the inital budget so they're stuck nodding their heads to the higher ups. Though it looks like they communicated well with the higher ups about the product's current shoddiness and were given more time. I wouldn't be surprised if there's another time delay. Honestly I could care less when it gets released as long as it is released at some point. In the mean time enjoy other things. |
That analysis may work well for 90%+ of the games out there but I think SSBB is different. Sakurai does what Sakurai does and I don't think he signed up for anything less than full creative control.
