| padib said: No I agree with you, if Zelda is delayed then you have to paint everything by the same stroke. Problem is Zelda is expected to release in 2016, making it 2 years distance from reveal. About the project games, they may or may not get retail releases. Both are projects and as projects their likelyhood to release is always in question. |
But surely you see that 2 years is still a sizeable duration between a games reveal and its release, regardless of who is actually making it.
Lets take TLG for an example here, it's expected next year, the game was rebuilt from scratch in 2014 with an expected 2016 release, the original title for ps3 never saw the light of day, and was essentially a studio tech demo since the game never ran at a playable state.
This puts it directly in line with the Zelda tech demo from 2012, that never saw the light of day and they ended up making a new zelda wiiu title instead, the only difference here is that they stuck much closer to the original vision with TLG.
I'm not saying that Sony don't have their fair share of games shown well in advance of actually releasing, or Microsoft too for that matter, but rather, all three companies do it when it suits them, so Reggies comment was inaccurate.
As for Binarys point, when people saw a fleshed out Zelda running on WiiU at the hardware reveal, can you really blame potential buyers from assuming that was a taste of games soon to come for the system?, it's essentially a reveal in itself, even if presented as a tech demo, the same happened with the PlayStation 3, everyone made it clear that the FF7 tech demo was exactly that, a tech demo, but people in their hundreds of thousands took that as proof that a FF7 title would eventually appear on the system, in effect making it as much of a game reveal as if it were really an actual game to be released.
