| Arlo said: I've been saying this for forever, and I don't think anyone believes me. They do it with toooonnnns of games. I call them out and I'm right 95% of the time, and I don't think it's coincidence. They just want to placate us, so they give a release date they never had any intention of keeping. Star Fox is another one, and I remember Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze being that way too. They give us a date, I go "Yeah right," and some time later it's the ol' Please Understand. |
Nintendo is far from the only publisher who delays games. "Real" delays do happen all the time, and if you predict that every game will be delayed of course you'll be right every time a game is delayed. It doesn't prove that the initial date was a ruse.
| Einsam_Delphin said: That does imply it'll havs taken them two years just for a port, that's a pretty big stretch. |
Psh, according to Aonuma Majora's Mask 3D took three years.
| SpokenTruth said: Yes, they planned on lying to us from the beginning. In fact, it was on page one of the design document. Serious guys, this is as silly as it gets. 4-5 development cycles with hundreds of people with dozens of hundreds of business partners and several other projects all going on at once and you think they planned on lying about an intended release date? When one of you gets to run a multinational video game corporation that releases lots of software and you manage to have a perfect release record from tentative release windows to actual street dates, then you start talking conspiracy. |
Do you have a better explanation for why Nintendo apparently began development of Twilight Princess HD in early 2014 with the intent of releasing it within roughly the same half-year as Zelda Wii U? So in December 2014 when Aonuma said Zelda Wii U would be released in 2015, and two months later when the CEO of Tantalus claimed that his game would also be released in 2015, was one of them lying? The only other possibilities are that the Tantalus game was not Twilight Princess (unlikely) or both games were meant to release at basically the same time.
I didn't jump to this conclusion. The timeline of events strongly suggests it. Nintendo was saying 2015 while they were quietly planning for 2016. Why else would Twilight Princess have been aiming for a 2015 release?
