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Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot has said that Splinter Cell: Conviction and Red Steel 2 have been delayed in order to make sure each full game lives up to their E3 demos.
"The changes on Splinter Cell and Red Steel - it's just a question of polish," he said in a conference call after the delays were announced. Both games are now due out between January and the end of March 2010.
"The team was asking that they couldn't be with the level of quality on all the maps and all the game for the end of the year, so they had asked for more time to be able to come with a better product, for both of those games," Guillemot explained.
"The quality of the games is there for what you've been able to see at E3, but we were not able to have that same quality on the full game of those two products."
The two games certainly made a handsome impression at E3 last month, and were responsible for two
or the best trailers as well.
Ubisoft also pushed back the release of I Am Alive (again) and the as-yet elusive new Ghost Recon game to its next financial year, which begins in April 2010.
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CountFapula
28/07/09 @ 08:32
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translation: OMFG IT'S MODERN WARFARE 2! RUN!
It's a shame that the series is so dominant it's scaring off so many other good looking games. This season is gonna be pretty bare if things keep going the way they are, which is ironic seeing how things were totally opposite last year. |
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kinky_mong
28/07/09 @ 08:52
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Early next year is the new "Pre-Christmas everyone put your best game out" time.
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There is a recession at the moment, but that never affects Christmas present buying, it didn't last year. The tidal wave of game releases in the Oct-Dec period make my wallet weep and my bank account haemorrhages. However, it's usually an ideal time for companies to put their best games on the shelves, safe in the knowledge they'll fly off the shelves and under the Christmas tree. I really do not believe the credit crunch will cause publishers to lose money from lost sales.
Pushing back games for the sake of releasing a more polished product is all very well, but could become a victim to the hype machine. Pushing back games to avoid competition is daft! Grow some balls! We all know MW2 will sell like hot fucking cakes despite the inflated prices, but not everyone is a fan and not everyone will spend 3 months constantly playing it, people want variety! I often have several games on the go. There are still a fair few games coming out, but a large percentage of AAA titles are now clogging up Q1 2010! This is when people have no money to spend on anything, Christmas and New Year just gone by eating up all the dough, I don't see them reaching the kinda sales they would have gotten pre-xmas. If Uncharted 2 slips, i'll go off my nut. |
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FromTheLandUnknown
28/07/09 @ 19:31
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Remember Far Cry 2, especially for PS 3, because as it stands now, it is still a broken game, around 9 months after release. And for some of us, who like this type of game over any COD, Modern warfare, or not, it is even more frustrating. All in all, Ubisoft are really in no position to moan about piracy, in another article on this site, or boast about quality, as we all know it is lacking seriously in allmost every title lately released by them.
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