Official Emily Rogers Discussion Thread: No More Rumors Until January

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GoOnKid said:

jason1637 said:

"Disclaimer: Everything in this blog post is rumor until proven otherwise. Please take everything with a grain of salt.


That brings us to the month of November. More sources have now come forward and corroborated my information. They’ve told me that localization for Breath of the Wild might not be finished until the end of December. After localization is completed, this game will require between (at least) four-to-six months of testing. As I mentioned earlier, this is one of Nintendo’s largest and most ambitious games ever. The amount of testing required for a huge open-world game like this is enormous. Nintendo’s intention is to have the game as bug free as possible.

This is crap. Localisation and testing don't interfere with each other. Why should testing wait till localisation is done?

Yeah, that's what I though too. Testing will be done by the team, they don't need the game to be translated to test it for bugs and broken parts of the game.

zippy said:
So the BOTW switch port isn't ready it seems, yet I still believe the Wii U version is sat there finished and could quite easily have launched this holiday if Nintendo chose.

Well, the problem seems to be the localisation of the game, and that is shared between both versions.