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Batman Arkham Knight delayed to 2015

So who wants to bet that Dragon Age is next to get delayed? That's literally the only big AAA game I'm looking forward this year. Please EA don't do it!
 
Kinyou said:
Woah, the Batmobile has enough weapons to wreck half of Gotham. I wonder how they'll avoid Batman killing anyone
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Did you see the second trailer? The Batmobile is driving down the street full of people and one jumps out the way. Not GTA style jump out of the way, like scripted can never get hit jump out of the way.
 
Well this was Rocksteadys one last chance to win GOTY, because 2015 is going to be packed with Witcher 3, Uncharted, MGSV, The Order 1886, Persona 5 ,The Division and whatever they announce at E3 next week.

Well looks like Dragon Age Inquisition and AC Unity will suffice till 2015.
 
I need new hardware for it anyway, and I wasn't due to pick one up this year while life is going on, and while I have a backlog to conquer. The delay is fine for me, but it obviously sucks for everyone else eagerly waiting for it.

So AAA-wise, what does the rest of this year have?

- Dragon Age: Inquisition
- Battlefield: Hardline
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
- Assassin's Creed Unity
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
- Evolve
- Destiny
- The Crew(?)
- Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel (last gen and PC only)
- Hunt: Horrors of the Guilded Age (beta I think)
- Forza Horizon 2
- Alien Isolation

I'm most likely missing some, but they're the ones that popped into mind. Not exactly a barren second half of the year for AAA titles, but I concede it doesn't quite have the lustre it should.
 
This year's game schedule:

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AHA-Lambda said:
I don't think he is, I think he's just saying that it is the reality of the market at this point, given the proliferation of AAA budgeted games.
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Then he made a terrible example of it. Except Dragon's Dogma, he picked a bunch of games that were generally not received well for various reasons that had nothing to do with budget. People are never going to buy anything new if everything new you keep feeding them is bad.
shinra-bansho said:
What part of "even cheaper games aren't cheap to make anymore" isn't coming across? These companies made cheaper games before when a cheap game cost half a million. A "cheap" console game these days costs multiple millions, even tens of millions. That's a market reality.

Watch Dogs just sold 4M in a week. Rayman Legends will never sell that. Neither will Child of Light or Valiant Hearts I imagine. All of these may be profitable. But Ubisoft will be more successful if it can produce more hits like Watch_Dogs, not more games like Child of Light. So they'll continue to focus their efforts on making games like Watch_Dogs. Market reality.

They aren't indies. They can't act like indies. They don't have that agility. They aren't one-man bands. They're publicly traded companies. Market reality.

And the market on consoles hasn't shown itself more receptive to having those titles in lieu of big budget blockbusters. Trine 2 isn't going to sell systems. Call of Duty is. Market reality.

You're essentially seeing what you want the market to be, or what you think it should be, rather than what it actually is.

"Get better at making low-budget games" isn't a solution to anything, when the reality is that people aren't buying those types of games on consoles. They're buying Call of Duty. They're buying Battlefield. They're buying Assassin's Creed.
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They could easily do both, hell you just listed six examples of them doing both. The problem is like five of them were boring or terrible, and no one is going to buy something they aren't familiar with when all they hear about it from reviews and the general public is how it's not worth buying.

Look at fucking Demons/Dark Souls. That is exactly the type of game publishers need to focus on. It's not trying to be the AAA title of the year, but it was well received, well made, and people bought it.

And if the market hasn't shown that these types of games were profitable and well received on consoles, then why is there this surge of Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo looking towards independent studios trying to get them to join the party? Do you really think Sony would be paying for booths for independent developers at a big convention if they didn't see those types of games as an asset to their company?

None of these B-Tier games ever sold systems. They were the filling in between the AAA titles that did.
 
That's a damn shame, but if it means a better game, I'm not too fussed with the delay.

It needs to be perfect, it's the final Arkham game after all.
 
Man, pending surprises this is looking to be one of the worst first years for a console yet. Most of them have at least a handful of must haves, but right now it's... inFamous I guess for anything that isn't cross gen? Forza Horizon 2 360 sounds like it's practically a different game with the same maps/cars so we can run with that too.
 
And people are upset Sony and Microsoft didn't create more powerful consoles?? We can't even get games on time with what we have!
 
It did seem really stupid for WB to launch both Shadow of Mordor and Arkham Knight within the same month, especially with how busy that month was going to be.
 
Eh. Fuck it. Sure, this is the third time I've been burned--The Order, Witcher 3, now Arkham Knight--but I needed to have some time to play Dragon Age: Inquisition anyway, I guess. *sighs*

Also maybe X if that comes out. >_<
 
Phire Phox said:
Devs need to stop announcing release dates unless they know they can meet them.
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That's what i'm saying! I don't why that other poster was saying i'm bitching and that development takes time. Yeah that's nice but we were led to believe it was coming this fall for a long while now. And we had magazine blowouts, trailers, interviews etc. I was prepared to buy a PS4 for this game in September. So excuse me for being upset that out of nowhere, this close to fall, that they decide to delay the game.
 
Announced 3 months ago then delayed? They would have been better off just waiting until e3 and announcing it with a 2015 date. Why were they so desperate to announce? Reminds me of The Witcher 3. Announced then immediately pushed back .
 
2012 was similar, tons of games were pushed to 2013. And 2013 was amazing. It's only natural that we have an off year after an amazing one.
 
UtterlyPerplexed said:
I need new hardware for it anyway, and I wasn't due to pick one up this year while life is going on, and while I have a backlog to conquer. The delay is fine for me, but it obviously sucks for everyone else eagerly waiting for it.

So AAA-wise, what does the rest of this year have?

- Dragon Age: Inquisition
- Battlefield: Hardline
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
- Assassin's Creed Unity
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
- Evolve
- Destiny
- The Crew(?)
- Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel (last gen and PC only)
- Hunt: Horrors of the Guilded Age (beta I think)
- Forza Horizon 2
- Alien Isolation

I'm most likely missing some, but they're the ones that popped into mind. Not exactly a barren second half of the year for AAA titles, but I concede it doesn't quite have the lustre it should.
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Samurai Warriors 4 is coming out October 21st!
 
Whats next? destiny? 2015 is going to be a very busy year in a bad way, people are not going to afford to buy all these games next year while this year its basically empty.
 
mechphree said:
Announced 3 months ago then delayed? They would have been better off just waiting until e3 and announcing it with a 2015 date. Why were they so desperate to announce? Reminds me of The Witcher 3. Announced then immediately pushed back .
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Witcher 3 was announced last year, and pushed back this year. Actually, I think Arkham Knight is unique in the fact that it was announced and pushed back literally a couple months later. What this tells me is the publisher was WAY over-confident
 
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