Nintendo games release dates disaster

[DivinePaladin]

Boberkun said:

DivinePaladin said:
Don't know where you're pulling a Xenoblade delay from but it probably smells like crap there. A lack of info does not mean a lack of progress, and the game has a solid launch date already, something that almost none of the delayed games can claim. Star Fox would be the exception because I BELIEVE they had announced a date just before Mario Maker came out and they delayed it.

As for the second part of your comment, we really didn't get a "sign" of directs often. They were quite often surprises announced less than two days before they were shown.

Two months till game release and localization must be already complete. If that true, they easily can move XenoX to November 21, for example. They don't, so I suppose Nintendo again have some problems with localization.

Can and will are also different things. Why move your holiday RPG title into the same launch window as the RPG that's going to end up winning Game of the Year, especially when your RPG isn't gonna sell well as it is? It's the same principle as dropping the price; they very likely CAN, but when you're underperforming heavily already it makes no financial sense to throw away more money that could be going in the coffers. 

 

Keep in mind that games are often done well in advance, as is anything involving media, but the publisher won't just release it RIGHT NOW because it's done. The game already has a small fanbase that's buying it day one no matter what, but I know that if it came out any closer to Fallout 4 I'd end up leaving my Limited Edition copy sealed on my shelf because I'd still be in full Fallout mode.