your mother on 07 June 2007
I don't think it was the devs' fault. They have to work around ridiculously tight milestones anyhow, and trying to release the game with the movie due to some executive's boneheaded decision was the main issue here. The sad truth is most of the time it is the marketing department, who don't have the foggiest idea about software development, that dictates the development schedule, not the developers themselves.
It's Dilbert - marketing-driven development.
"We want a Spiderman3 game out in time for the movie release!"
"Great! We'll have a development schedule ready in a month"
"A month? That's when we will launch the game!"
"But... but..."
*cracks whip*
