| oniyide said: No that would not have been smart. The game was ALREADY pushed back twice. So yes it was very important for them to hit that date otherwise they would have lost sales. If your game isnt on the shelf it cant make money. Maybe they were scrapped for cash, maybe they did mismanage(hell the delays tell me they were mismanaged). The wii U version was going to be the worse selling by far anyone who thinks otherwise is lying ot themselves. So you might as well sacrifice the weakest link in the chaing anyway to maximize profits. So if they waited Watchdogs would have had stiffer competition in the fall/winter. So yes they did the best thing they could have did. |
The original delay (from holiday 2013 till summer 2014) was related with the quality of the game, the engine was working, the gameplay was there, but it was boring as hell, a lot of the city was empty, and it had many bugs, if released on that state the average review was going to be around 60, not the 77 - 80 that it finally got, yes it was that bad, so they delay it for all consoles, in January things started to look a little better but they need manpower to release before June, and that is when the Wii U edition got sacrified, because of the poor sales of Splinter Cell and Black Flag.
