Id rather it was playable than broken though. Being a programmer myself I can see how things go over schedule I'm already 4 weeks over deadline on my latest project.

Not necessarily. If the delay wasn't avoidable then it's a clear failure of whoever decided to give a release date early. But companies will still claim it's just to make the game "even better" and people will gobble it up.

Duke nukem certainly proved this

Believe me when I say that no feasible amount of time will make open world games run better. It's not feasible for a company to develop as long as possible just to remove all the bugs. They have to release at a stage before that. And they're willingly doing so. They know the game is full of bugs but the numbers say that the sales will outweigh the negative feedback. And there is always patches.

So yes, all games need more time but none will get the actual amount they need. So all games are practically unfinished.

I guess what I'm saying is that a delay will not make them less unfinished.

Yeah, but should we really praise them for not releasing a broken product? Isn't that their god damn job in the first place?

Yeah delays 99% of the time means the game is completely broken. It's like people actually believe it's done and ready to be released but they're just holding it for a few months to add some more content.

Yes of course they are, same goes for any artistic medium there will always be someone on the project that thinks something can be improved on. But some devs are better than others, Bethesda games are particularly attrocious on launch. 

But delaying a game to fix bugs, can also mean more content going in. Not everyone in a team can be bug fixing.

That's what we would like to think. But listen to your heart if this is really true in an age where content is purposefully removed from games before release to sell it for a premium later.

GTA V and The Last of Us were delayed...

Well, in the end, I still prefer to stick with "delays are good for games". No matter what the reason for the delay is, it certainly isn't so they can make the game be even worse or to break a working game.
As for the release date/time-frame, I see it as only hurting the company and their projected earnings. It doesn't hurt me at all, it's not like there is no other games I can play.

I was looking forward to playing The Division in 2014. It's delayed. So I'll play FIFA, Far Cry, Alien, something else...
If it is released in 2015, great, I'll play it then. If not, I'll play Dying Light, The Order, Witcher 3, whatever is released.

I have a little MS Word table into which I plug my planned purchases, I just cut and paste in a bit lower and move on. In the end, I'd rather play a fixed game than a broken game. So, "delays ARE good for games".