| Jpcc86 said: Helps marketing I guess. Theres people buying consoles thinking "eventually X announced game is gonna come out" for it, and they just wait. And wait. And wait. |
I came from the Nintendo 64 with the venerable Perfect Dark...
Microsoft teased Perfect Dark for Xbox, which was one of the reasons why I bought the OG Xbox over the Gamecube or PS2. (That and Halo+Fable.)
Eventually the game dropped for the 360, but the tactic actually worked. With me anyway.
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I don't think any developer/publisher intentionally announces a game years and years before release... Sometimes things happen, games may not review internally very well, sometimes technology and scope changes.. So it's sometimes better to restart development than cop a public shit-show and rubbish the company name.
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