We should make a thread listing the games that took more time between announcement and release. It'd be fun.

Nioh, for example, was kind of announced in 2004. Came out in 2017. At least they kept their word.

I've got mixed feelings about too early announcements, though. I guess we should have both, announcements of those that will come out soon and a bit of those that never comes out just to keep us hyped a bit. It's part of the show.

Really? Where was Nioh announced in 2004?

Stacraft Ghost was announced in the early 00's, yet we never got it, but we did get something close to it 2 years ago with Nova Covert ops. Not exactly the same game as Ghosts, but it takes ideas from it. 

Just giving an example of something that existed years ago, but gave way to something similar. Just wanting to say that if someone was announced back then and changed drastically, that doesn't exactly make it the same IP in the current timeframe. 

This means that if Nioh was truly announced back in 04, it would have to be quite literally the same in design. If anything has changed since 04, then that means it is not exactly the same as what was announced years ago.

Personally, I didn't mind that Kingdom Hearts III was announced too early, at that time (back in 2013, before the game was announced) I REALLY wanted confirmation that a new home console KH game was in development, even though I knew I would have to wait years and years to play it.

Blame yourselves.
I see Metroid Prime 4 being brought up as an example.

Take a look at that game. Nintendo could have said, we are working on a new Metroid game in an interview like they have said before, but that doesn't appease anyone. No one believes them until they show a title screen.

If Bethesda had their conference and showed off Elder Scrolls blades like they did and didn't show ES6, but later said in an interview that they were working on it, would anyone believe them? No. They would look at and see most recent games are Oline MMO and a phone game. There is no reason to not believe they haven't abandoned the core single player game.

So it's to shut up us gamers. And yet as soon as they announce it, we continue to not shut up.

I mean hell, I feel Ben Affleck wants to quit being batman solely so that people quit asking him about batman every single time they ever see him. He could be interviewing for another movie and half the question will be about batman.

Beth only announced TES6 because the fans cry every year for an TES6 announcement. Cyberpunk 2077 was indeed too early. I don't see it coming before 2020.

It doesn't matter to me if a game is revealed years before it's released. It's not like I'm waking up every day and crossing an X through another day on the calendar as I wait in anticipation for a big title. I will admit it used to be a bit of a thing for me, but it's gotten easier to wait as I've gotten older. Waiting 3 years for the Ultra 64/N64 kinda sucked for example.

Resident Evil 2 remake was announce in summer 2015: https://www.facebook.com/residentevil/posts/1018107531543467

People are stupid and can't manage their expectations. You often see developers show tech demo and game play trailer behind close door because the general public aren't informed enough to make proper evaluation of what the final product will turn out to be. But, I would say that large majority would rather know that a game is in development. All the buzz at E3 is created from the unknown. A great game is a great game and it doesn't matter when it is announce.

The biggest problem is that you have bad games that create buzz and excitement and are hyped to be better then what it eventually delivers. It is a balance acts that can have good marketing benefits if done right. It's hard to manage expectation, the best example is No man's sky, they made many promises and were too ambitious when compare to what they manage to delivers.