padib said:
I have an issue with these examples. Project Guard and Giant Robo are projects, and were revealed as experimental developments. Metroid Prime, if revealed, will not be an experiment, but a proper megaton. I think it's important to compare apples to apples in this debate. A game like Zelda U, Mario U, Metroid Prime is comparable with TLG, FFXV, Shenmue III, FFVII Remake because these games compete on the same level for attention and expectation. Project Guard and Giant Robo are maybes in almost everybody's mind. I don't think it's a fair comparison. Zelda U will most likely be out in 2016, 2 years is relatively short span from reveal to release. SMTxFE is your best example, but 3 years is little compared to how long the Sony games alluded to have been revealed compared to time to release. |
both project guard and project giant robot are intended to be retail games, not just tech demos, they are games with anticipated releases, as such they are games that have been shown early before the titles actual release.
3 years is a considerable amount of time, and the thing is, were not "comparing with sony" were assessing whether what reggie said was true or not, which is relative to nintendo not anyone else.
All of these games contradict his statement, fair enough zelda u is down to delays but then, if you're going to give special allowances for games releasing a certain time after they were initially shown on the strengths of delays alone, most games on other systems with expansive time periods between reveal and release would qualify for this allowance too.
