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The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago

controversial take, but I hope they do delay it. Better a good game late than a bad game early. As big as this release is, it HAS to be good.

[-] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, the Witcher 3 release should have taught the game publishers this. CDPR delayed the launch by several months because the game wasn’t ready to ship yet. And the game was phenomenal, and received rave reviews pretty much across the board. Gamers were disappointed about the launch, but basically went “this game will be worth the wait.”

[-] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

Funny how CDPR themselves then had a major fuck up with Cyberpunk

[-] Peffse@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

...and they followed it with Cyberpunk 2077's disastrous launch but ultimate success. So I wouldn't hold CDPR as a high standard.

[-] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

I’d argue that is just another example of why delaying games isn’t a bad thing. 2077 clearly wasn’t ready at launch, and would have benefitted from a delayed launch.

[-] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I feel like that one was also due to awful development practices, they had the whole scrapping the entire first 2 years of work thing due to a control freak lead dev who was ultimately releaved of his position (though not until after release iirc)

[-] mostNONheinous@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

You realize that rockstar basically invented this strategy right? Almost every release since vice city or San Andreas has been delayed by 6 months to a year to be the best game possible.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

I just assumed game companies had been doing that since the 1800's.

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