Splinter Cell: Conviction Delayed… Again
Posted 07/27/09 at 10:11:29 PM by Nathan Grayson
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Rise and shine, Mr. Fisher… Oops, wrong game, but you can forgive us for making the mistake. After all, Splinter Cell: Conviction’s delay-borne trail of broken hearts and crushed dreams is nearly as long as the one produced by Half-Life 2 – especially now that the game’s been delayed again.
Originally Re-scheduled to launch this fall, Conviction’s now looking at an “early 2010” release date. The game’s been delayed four times, and was first set to launch in Q4 2007. Ubisoft’s saying it’ll be out between January 1 and March 31, 2010. So, why delay it again? Apparently, the game wasn’t polished enough.
“It’s just a question of polish. 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,” Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said during a recent earnings call.
Good intentions, but – for many gamers – bad timing. BioShock 2 and Max Payne 3 already retreated into 2010, and now that Splinter Cell’s done the same, the winter gaming season just got a bit colder.
What's that old saying...
Submitted by ElderJefferson on Tue, 07/28/2009 - 5:09am
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. I cast my vote with all the other comments stating that it's better that they wait and get it right rather than rush a sub-par (sub-polished?) game.
Submitted by mclovin on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 11:21pm
Great to hear about a company delaying a game to get it right rather than pushing crap out the door to us! I'm now optimistic about this game...
Haha
Submitted by nmanguy on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 8:30pm
Looks like VAlve is just going to reap in the Left 4 Dead 2 money this year.
Submitted by Vegan on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 10:01pm
What, because Splinter Cell Conviction was going to compete with Left 4 Dead's audience?
Submitted by nmanguy on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 8:30pm
Looks like VAlve is just going to reap in the Left 4 Dead 2 money.
Winter Gaming
Submitted by bingojubes on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 7:45pm
it's okay..never was a big Splinter Cell fan, anyways. Assassins' Creed 2 will be my saviour. or Diablo 3.
I completely agree with the
Submitted by DBsantos77 on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 7:32pm
I completely agree with the previous post, the more time they take to polish it, the better. Less bugs. *COUGH GTAIV COUGH COUGH*.
I wonder what their definition of polish is though. Sick game nevertheless. I remember going to my cousin's house YEARS ago to try to play the first SC.
Submitted by comptech08 on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 7:26pm
There is something wrong with the comment system. Been noticing these double and triple post of the same thing a lot more often with the new design.
Submitted by MeTo on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 8:03pm
Some times it hangs when you click on post comment button you have to wait it out or just close your browser. If you keep clicking the post comment button it will keep trying to post comment then all of the sudden it goes through and does multiple post. Where's the web master when you need one.
This is good. They get to
Submitted by Nuxes on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 7:24pm
This is good. They get to polish the game more, and they won't have to go up against all the pre-holidays releases. Conviction looks pretty ambitious, the more time they have to work out all the little bugs, the better.
Submitted by Nuxes on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 8:31pm
triple post. this site is being slow, probably because of all the frakking ads. And when did MaxPC sell out to AMD? It kind of hurts your image as an impartial reviewer.
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