Bofferbrauer on 01 January 2015
| Kuksenkov said: Why does Nintendo like to be secretive when it comes to their release dates? They get people to talk... Bad about them. Hopefully there will be a Direct as some of you have said. |
Nintendo releases their games when they are really done, not in a obvious beta state like other companies do. Since playtesting and debugging can take quite some time just as much as being over very fast depending on the game and the state of the initial code, setting a release date more than 3 month in advance is actually a very unpractical thing to do and just contributes to games being rushed, unfinished and/or buggy at release date.
However, Nintendo does wait a little too long before announcing release dates. This might be due to all the delays Wii U games went through during the first year and can be their way to avoid them altogether. After all, something that never got a release date can't be too late to meet the schedule.
