twesterm said:
milkyjoe said:
twesterm said:
superchunk said:
Salnax said:
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How could it be too late. It was just announced this morning. Game has to be done otherwise it wouldn't have been given an explicit date to begin with.
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The decision wasn't made this morning, it was likely made months ago. We, the general public, just happened to learn about it this morning.
It's sad too because my parents got me this game for my Christmas present thinking it would be out soon, now it's going to be closer to next Christmas until I can play it.
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They only announced the February release date in mid December. Prior to that it had been projected to be a launch game, giving it a nice 10 month delay when all is said and done.
If they knew about it months ago, then they were being a bit disingenuous in December.
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Submission takes 1-2 months, they've known about it since before submission. It's very possible that the decision did in fact happen in December.
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My guess is the decision was made when they got a hold of the NPD sales data. Business call, the platform wasn't selling as well as they hoped, so they opted to regroup and go for September I guess.
In particular, I think the Wii U's horrible performance in Europe was probably the catalyst. It's fine that Japan has almost 1/3 of the Wii U userbase, but that doesn't do a game like Rayman too much good, because the Japanese market does not traditionally support Western developed games that strongly.
I'm gonna guess they weren't thrilled with Zombi U's sales either.
