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Nautilus said:

axumblade said:
Does that mean that it has officially gone gold?
While being one of the worst-kept secrets for the Nintendo switch it is impressive that they have managed to announce a game and release it within 3 months of that announcement.

The game, much like many games in the Switch lineup so far(Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Super Mario Odyssey as some examples) probably have gone gold for quite a while, with these last months/weeks just being used to polish the final nooks.The reason they are probably holding it back is just that they released in the desired timeframe.

Well, and to produce and send out the cartridges with the game. A game, unless it's digital only, generally goes gold several months before release to let this happen. Cartridges actually need to go gold earlier than games on optical discs since the latter can be produced much faster in high numbers.

The timespan that lies between going gold and the release date is also the reason for Day one patches, along with preset release dates: There was just not enough time to put these patches out in time for the Gold version, which goes into production with the first batch of discs/cartridges, hence why these errors need to be corrected at a later date. In the past, when that wasn't possible, companies where a bit reluctant to give out solid release dates just because of possible game-breaking errors which couldn't be patched later on nearly as easily (or at all) as today.