November 15, 2007

The Smash Brothers Brawl Delay

Ok so I know that this delay was announced a while ago in game and tech tme but I think until now or recently at least it hasn't had a major impact. You see the day I heard that brawl was announced I said to a friend of mine, "I'm not really upset about the delay of the game itself but more how it will effect the flow of information about the game". Now what I meant when I said this was thus: You see if you did not know, every single day at 3:00(EST) in the morning the Brawl website gets at least one update to it. Now there are a lot of people(like myself) who wait patiently for these updates b/c they are usually very good, however if you think about it these posts will also be effected by the delay.

First of all lets assume the announcement was made last week for example. Now as of last week it was roughly a month until the original release date of the game. Hmm, now if we extend that to the new release date it becomes 3 months, yes I said 3 months. that is three times as long. So lets think, if the people at Nintendo promised they would update the site every day until the game came out then they now have three months worth of updates to plan out as opposed to two months, and lets not kid ourselves into thinking that Nintendo is bad at what they do in any way, they are an incredible company and thus would have planned all of the updates or at least 2 or 3 weeks worth of them in advance. So with that in mind they had to take the one month of planned updates and extend them into 3 months, then when they had extended it as much as they could and there were still unfilled dates for updates they would have had to take content that was previously not secret about the game but also not worthy of its own update and make updates about it. Now in lame mans terms this means two things. As I said earlier they sometimes put up more than one update per day, these days where the would update sometimes even 3 times in one day will be gone almost completely. now obviously they are not gone altogether because of todays update where there were two things but I doubt we will see many more. Now the second thing this means is that things that are not truly news about the game and were previously unimportant and didnt need to be said in the updates became updates to fill the new span of time until release. case in point, yesterday's update(Handicaps), 11/13's update(taunts(this one wasn't.  horrible, but seriously who cares?)), and 11/7's update(grab and throw(this was in the last game and imo was a great gameplay mechanic so taking it out would simply be their loss)).

Now I'm not saying these things are not be updates(except the handicap one, I mean seriously who gives a shit)but they are a little weak for updates compared to stuff like King Dedede and the one about the old items that will be showing up in the game this time, or the Gray Fox one. I just can't get past the feeling that updates like these would not have even been on the site if the delay had not occurred or would at least be coupled together. Well that might just be my opinion but discuss it in the comments if you'd like. Well I'm signing off.,

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