Dragon Age: Origins and Sims 3 Suffer Stiff Delays
Dragon Age: Origins and Sims 3 Suffer Stiff Delays
Posted 02/03/2009 at 7:10pm
| by Nathan Grayson
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If your incredibly strict 2009 gaming schedule absolutely required that you give Sims 3 a day-one download and light tiny people on fire until Dragon Age: Origins’ “early 2009” release date, prepare to cancel that fake encounter with mononucleosis (followed by a string of extra long-lasting colds due to your “weakened immune system”), because the two games have run away together into the latter part of 2009.
The Sims 3, originally scheduled to snatch your girlfriend away on February 20, will now launch on June 2 instead.
“The June launch combined with the break-through game the team is building gives us the perfect runway to create awareness for The Sims 3,” said EA marketing boss Russell Arons.
Meanwhile, Dragon Age: Origins, as with any good BioWare game (the only non-delayed BioWare game, for reference) slipped big time and will be bed-ridden until EA’s third quarter, which runs from October 1 to December 31. Apparently, the delay will allow EA to more properly market to the Baldur’s Gate-esque RPG’s PC version alongside its console cousins.
"I'm really proud of our team, who are working very hard to make Dragon Age: Origins the biggest and most exciting BioWare game yet, and we will work to ensure it not only meets, but exceeds the expectations of our loyal audience," said CEO Ray Muzyka.
Kinda rubbing salt in the wound, aren’t you there, Muzyka? Something tells us this won’t be an easy wait.
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techparadox
February 04, 2009 at 9:53am
...this amounts to EA saying "the games aren't done yet and we haven't had time to drum up enough publicity. We're going to shove Sims back to a release window where its target demographic is likely to be nowhere near the computer and we're going to push Dragon Age to a release window in with the rest of the usual winter glut, so that way if sales of both of them are weak we can claim that PC gaming just isn't working."
I swear, sometimes the decisions made by corporations make no sense...
Tunnel_Vision
February 03, 2009 at 7:30pm
I guess I don't quite understand this...how does EA's Q3 last from Oct. 1st to Dec 31st? Where does the Q4 fall in the year?
BoxyBrown
February 04, 2009 at 5:36am
EA's fiscal year is different from the calender year. Most companies end their fiscal year sometime after the holidays to post strong sales numbers from the holiday season. Apparently EA's fiscal year starts April 1st and ends March 31st.
Vahn16
February 03, 2009 at 7:40pm
Game companies are weird. Q4 will probably occur during what we know as 2010.
Still though, it must be weird when EA employee #145 is attempting to celebrate Halloween while his family just wants to open Christmas presents.
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