Games Are Announced Too Early | Spot On

I think it’s just a way for devs to say “we’re working on something. Please don’t close us down. Look over there!”

Man, sooooo many games announced that never saw the light of day. Starcraft Ghost. Scalebound, Silent Hills, Star Wars 1313, Fable Legends, Rainbow Six Patriots, etc, etc. If I had a dime for every game announced that never came out I'd be loaded. Seriously. Yeah, they DO announce games too early. What are you going to do? Put a pre-order in for 7 years from now? Man, c'mon.

I just clicked to see if that was the same guy and he just finally shaved.

Elder Scrolls 6 will launch on the Xbox Series X5 25 years from now.

I have fewer issues with early release announcements than I do with Early Access.

yeah, they hype it too early and later says the game still in the beginning stages years later - just to kill the hype for their fans.

Time kills us all.
No need to make it angrier.
No need to fat shame it.

Next time you hug a new born, know that time will KILL them.

I'm not convinced it hurts anything at all. Maybe it hurts feelings when a game is cancelled. "Disappoints" would be far more apt.

Suits getting involved and driving everything to the mediocre center, creating wholly unnecessary bloat by blowing so much on vapid, ineffective marketing, and then being unwilling to take risks because of this environment which they have created - that hurts games and the industry. Naughty Dog telling us there's another Uncharted or The Last of Us on the very distant horizon doesn't hurt anything.

People demand their games NOW, much like toddlers, as if creating a Zelda or Resident Evil or GTA that is enthralling is easy. Games are rushed even when they hit a development plateau, are released as incomplete buggy messes, and give rise to the newest cottage industry of the post-release redemption story, which in most cases is a work of fiction.

In order to keep those meddling suits at bay, developers have to be able to say "Did you see how gamers responded to that announcement? Have faith in us!" That means they need to periodically tell us what they're working on. I mean, let's be real, even after Andromeda and everything else that's happened at Bioware, when I say "Mass Effect" right now, how many boners did those two little words produce? It's probably five years out yet, and in truth it probably will suck. But Liara. And the Geth. And certainly, somehow, Shepard. Boner. Don't lie.

In the case of Perfect Dark it was obvious the "announcement" was just to buy time. This was back when Xbox practically had no first party games in development beyond Halo Infinite (and you know how that turned out). Same thing with Fable.

I'm not sure whether games announced to early, or whether certain developers/publishers go through more changes now that pushes the development of certain games back, sometimes years. The "poster child" for this is Ubisoft, and specifically Skull & Bones. That game began as an offshoot of AC and got delayed and delayed because personnel changes, and Ubisoft's new focus on live service games, sent the game completely back to square one (multiple times.) It seems like this happens more often than it used to, or maybe we just read about it happening more often than we used to.

It's also a side-effect of games taking longer to make than ever. Can't really announce a game too early when it only takes one or two years to develop... but when it takes 6 years to make, at least wait until you've built the game's foundation before you announce it. And then, show us that foundation within one year. Then release the game within the next year. Otherwise it just comes across as stock price manipulation, like mentioned in the video. But I guess it works if they keep doing it...

I remember when games got announced less than a year before it's release, it was weird, but it kept the hype fresh.

Oh, come on now. They don't announce games too early.

We've only been waiting since 2008 for beyond good and Evil two.

Which was back when Gears 2 and Resistance 2 came out. And the Wii was every gamer's punching bag for jokes.

I personally have no idea why they announce some games so early myself. It actually hurts the IP and the company. Because if they announce anything that isn't that game. They get hammered by fans negatively and lose all good faith.

Like when everyone was waiting for a new Metroid Prime. And they gave us that molten hot garbage "Federation force". Or when everyone was waiting for a new Splinter Cell, and they gave us a Splinter Cell DLC for a mobile game no one played.

And if done too frequently, you can end up like Microsoft, who promised a whole bunch of exclusives last gen just for them to can most of their projects, and lose the faith of most reasonable and logical gamers. From "Re-core", "Crackdown III", "Halo Infinite", and "Red-fall" being either just okay or just terrible. To canceling games like "Phantom Dust 2", "Scalebound", "Conker", and "Fable Legends". And the funny thing is, people really wonder why Xbox is selling over 10 million fewer consoles then PS this gen.

Can you rename these Moanathon?

Negativity for traffic

Only some games are announced too early; some (such as Actraiser Renaissance) aren't announced until the day they come out.

Game Studios make announcements as early as they possible because of pressure from investors always seeking new product, innovation, and most importantly, new revenue streams. That’s what keeps the dollars flowing, so don’t expect changes anytime soon.