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snyps on 22 January 2017

What I don't understand is why is it going to take 6 months to release?



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Hynad on 22 January 2017
snyps said:
What I don't understand is why is it going to take 6 months to release?

Probably because Nintendo sent their dev kits late.



KLXVER on 22 January 2017
snyps said:
What I don't understand is why is it going to take 6 months to release?

Well you dont want to release it anywhere near Zelda: BOTW.



snyps on 22 January 2017
Hynad said:
snyps said:
What I don't understand is why is it going to take 6 months to release?

Probably because Nintendo sent their dev kits late.

 

KLXVER said:
snyps said:
What I don't understand is why is it going to take 6 months to release?

Well you dont want to release it anywhere near Zelda: BOTW.

 

Those are good points. Seems unnecessary. 



Hynad on 22 January 2017
RolStoppable said:
Hynad said:

Probably because Nintendo sent their dev kits late.

Or because Nintendo told them that the game has to launch in a finished state. This is Bethesda, after all.

LOL. At this point, most of the major issues the game had have been ironed out.



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Volterra_90 on 22 January 2017
Hynad said:
RolStoppable said:

Or because Nintendo told them that the game has to launch in a finished state. This is Bethesda, after all.

LOL. At this point, most of the major issues the game had have been ironed out.

Wel... I played Skyrim 1 year ago, on PC, the GOTY edition, patched... And a NPC decided it was cool to go through walls, my horse thought flying is a horses' thing, and a dragon decided to not let me go through a hallway because it got stucked. In 3 hours of playtime. Never touched the game after that clusterfuck of beginning XD.



Hynad on 22 January 2017
Volterra_90 said:
Hynad said:

LOL. At this point, most of the major issues the game had have been ironed out.

Wel... I played Skyrim 1 year ago, on PC, the GOTY edition, patched... And a NPC decided it was cool to go through walls, my horse thought flying is a horses' thing, and a dragon decided to not let me go through a hallway because it got stucked. In 3 hours of playtime. Never touched the game after that clusterfuck of beginning XD.

I played the game for over 500 hours, on PC and PS4, and never got any game breaking bugs. Some minor glitches here and there on the PC version, a while ago. But nothing major.



dahuman on 22 January 2017

Special edition:



Nuvendil on 22 January 2017
Zkuq said:
It's almost certainly the new version downgraded for Switch. It wouldn't make sense to port the old version since the new one is supposedly much better and downgrading it shouldn't take too much of an effort.

I honestly have no idea why people keep suggesting it has to be one or the other. It's not like tweaking a few things is going to require much effort, it's porting the whole thing that's the big deal. Compared to that, tweaking a few settings is nothing.

The Special Edition and Original have different versions of the engines with substantial differences at a fundamental level.  It would be rather odd for them to go back and build 3rd version of the games engine just for the Switch.  So it will be one or the other tweaked for the system.



dahuman on 22 January 2017
bonzobanana said:

Win