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Following last night’s post from Ron Eagle claiming Killzone 2 was delayed by SCEA for purely scheduling reasons, we remembered that SCEE president David Reeves gave us a different story when we spoke to him at the recent PlayStation Day in London.
Reeves told us that while scheduling had been a factor, the game’s development period also needed to be extended. Word for word:
VG247: One of the big bits of news in that conference was the Killzone 2 push into next year. A lot of people were expecting it this year, so is it a structural decision to spread it out with Resistance? Is that essentially it? It does it simply need more time?
David Reeves: Both.
Eagle said in his post, “To be clear, there is nothing wrong or causing a delay to the development of [Killzone 2]. We (SCEA) had to look at the fall calendar with SOCOM, LittleBigPlanet, MotorStorm: Pacific Rift, Resistance 2, plus some PSN titles and make a decision where each game should come out. Killzone 2 was moved to Feb 2009 to make sure we didn’t have three shooters in the marketplace competing for retail dollars during the same holiday season.”
That looks like something of a “mixed message” to us.
Reeves announced at the conference that the Guerrilla shooter was to release in February 2009, not 2008 as many had hoped.
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Psychotext said:
That’s what they said when they delayed it… it shouldn’t come as any surprise.
patlike said:
As far as I’m aware, they didn’t give any reason for this latest delay in the conference. I don’t recall one, anyway.
Psychotext said:
I’ll have to try and find the quote…
…which may be easier said than done. =/
Tiger Walts said:
The extra time is due to them recompiling the code with one less scan-line each time until it runs smoothly. They’re down to 643p at the moment.
Psychotext said:
This is so annoying… I have a photographic memory so I can actually see the video I was watching in my head, and the dev saying that they needed to sort out some technical problems which is why it was delayed… but I can’t find the vid!
patlike said:
As far as I can remember, Reeves just said the date, there was a bit of a gasp, and he moved on. I don’t think anyone from Guerilla came onto the stage. Ted Price did for Resistance, I remember that.
Psychotext said:
It wasn’t on stage. It was someone talking to a dev while playing the game.
patlike said:
Ah, I see. There we are, then.
Psychotext said:
I give up. There’s been far too much media released since the initial leaked videos. =(
pjmaybe said:
This isn’t the lost winds review!!
(see your top links boys)
patlike said:
Shitting hell. Sorry. Fixed.