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curl-6 said:
the_dengle said:

Everything isn't always so neat and tidy. If a game takes two years to make and development started in Q1 2013, perfect. If that same game started development in Q3 2013, is Nintendo meant to cut dev time short by six months and rush the game to release, or are they meant to delay it by six months?

Clearly the answer is simple for some companies who are not Nintendo. A Q1 game must be released in Q1 no matter what state it is in.

And like I say, I get that ambitious titles take time, but games like Mario Maker and Mario Party 10 are not ambitious titles.

This does not answer my question. Two years is not a long development time. But, since you are struggling with this, let's cut it down to one year.

If Mario Maker is estimated to have a development time of one year and it begins development in May 2014, should it be rushed to completion in only 10 months or should EAD 4 be given 18 months to work on it, so that it can release in Q1 either way?

What is wrong with simply releasing the game when it is finished, in May 2015?