Due to delays in the completion of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, we’ve had to change the release date of the game to Sunday, March 9th.
I deeply apologize to the people who have looked forward to playing the game for so long and ask that you hold on just a little longer. Thank you for your patience.
A glance at the Japanese version of the blog confirms that region has also been handed a delay, though much less of one, as the date in that region has been delayed just one week to January 31st.
In somewhat happier news, the blog also posted a regular update today, this time revealing a Pikmin-themed level for the Pikmin/Olimar character announced last week. The new level includes giant enemies, unpredictable showers of heavy rain, and numbered pellets that fall from the sky. These pellets can be thrown into the Pikmins' onion nest to generate battle items. The level's graphics clearly maintain the photo-realistic style of both Pikmin games.
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Originally posted by: MJRx9000
It's like reliving Nintendo 64
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Originally posted by: CrimmQuote
Originally posted by: MJRx9000
It's like reliving Nintendo 64
A fate worse than death.
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Originally posted by: KaironQuote
Originally posted by: CrimmQuote
Originally posted by: MJRx9000
It's like reliving Nintendo 64
A fate worse than death.
What are you talking about? I'm ecstatic! It's...it's so... I have this warm and fuzzy feeling inside of me... so familiar... a delay. *smiles widely*
I'm a Nintendo fan. This is how they tell me they love me!
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Originally posted by: KaironQuote
Originally posted by: CrimmQuote
Originally posted by: MJRx9000
It's like reliving Nintendo 64
A fate worse than death.
What are you talking about? I'm ecstatic! It's...it's so... I have this warm and fuzzy feeling inside of me... so familiar... a delay. *smiles widely*
I'm a Nintendo fan. This is how they tell me they love me!
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Originally posted by: GoldenPhoenixQuote
Originally posted by: KaironQuote
Originally posted by: CrimmQuote
Originally posted by: MJRx9000
It's like reliving Nintendo 64
A fate worse than death.
What are you talking about? I'm ecstatic! It's...it's so... I have this warm and fuzzy feeling inside of me... so familiar... a delay. *smiles widely*
I'm a Nintendo fan. This is how they tell me they love me!
Yeah by delaying a game for no reason is SOOOO like the N64 days. At least during the N64 period those delays were actually to polish and finish the game, this delay is a stupid marketing tactic that makes me think of Sony and not Nintendo.
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Yeah by delaying a game for no reason is SOOOO like the N64 days.
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Originally posted by: GoldenPhoenix
All I see is "One week delay for Japan" meaning the game is DONE by then, but a "ONE MONTH" delay for NA, something is not right there especially since both versions have been in development simultaneously. So my guess is one of two things:
1. It is a marketing related delay (most likely)
2. It is a removal delay, where they decided to cut certain things out of the game
Either way it is terrible. Though I will say I don't hold any of this against Sakurai, in fact I would be willing to bet that NOA is behind it.
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Originally posted by: Mario
Both versions have been in development simultaneously? Where did you pull that crap from? If that's the case why haven't they even started making the PAL version? Games almost always come out in Japan first.Quote
Yeah by delaying a game for no reason is SOOOO like the N64 days.
They did give a reason.
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Originally posted by: GoldenPhoenix
All I see is "One week delay for Japan" meaning the game is DONE by then, but a "ONE MONTH" delay for NA, something is not right there especially since both versions have been in development simultaneously. So my guess is one of two things:
1. It is a marketing related delay (most likely)
2. It is a removal delay, where they decided to cut certain things out of the game
Either way it is terrible. Though I will say I don't hold any of this against Sakurai, in fact I would be willing to bet that NOA is behind it.
You say that as if the US always got the games first and Japan second. Now you understand how some Japanese Zelda fans felt when they saw that the US was getting Twilight Princess as a launch title while they had to wait a month to get it. Both games were being developed at the same time, yet the US got it first.
Once again, we can't say for sure WHY the delay happened. So it isn't really fair to claim the delay happened because of marketing reasons since we don't know why.
QuoteI'm sure if you wanted the Japanese version you could get it at the end of January, but (as far as I know) it's only the Japanese version that has gone gold. The two seperate versions of the game are being handled by two seperate divisions of Nintendo, I'm sure they don't work at the exact same pace.
Originally posted by: GoldenPhoenix
But the game will be done by the end of January (Heck wasn't it confirmed it went gold weeks ago?), but for some reason instead of a week delay on the NA side there is a 1 month delay. It doesn't add up.
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Originally posted by: UncleBob
*whistles*
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Originally posted by: UncleBob
*whistles*
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Originally posted by: NeoThunder
now after this we diserve voice chat over IP in the final version
So now it's a question of what will come first.......Wii's staying on store shelves or Smash bros. release
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Originally posted by: CrimmQuote
Originally posted by: MJRx9000
It's like reliving Nintendo 64
A fate worse than death.
What are you talking about? I'm ecstatic! It's...it's so... I have this warm and fuzzy feeling inside of me... so familiar... a delay. *smiles widely*
I'm a Nintendo fan. This is how they tell me they love me!
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Originally posted by: Ceric
The easiest explanation is Nintendo needed a week more of production capacity to fill the disc orders in Japan and since production for NOE and NOA will probably come from the same plants but start later due to the later date a Delay was needed to fill those orders as well. Plus the fine tuning of the translation and giving a little room for a last minute bugs fix from the bugs found through the Japanese playing community.
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Originally posted by: Ceric
The easiest explanation is Nintendo needed a week more of production capacity to fill the disc orders in Japan and since production for NOE and NOA will probably come from the same plants but start later due to the later date a Delay was needed to fill those orders as well. Plus the fine tuning of the translation and giving a little room for a last minute bugs fix from the bugs found through the Japanese playing community.
You know, if that's it, that's fine, except for one thing: We were told development issues. If they want to delay the game to have more time to print it, they should say "We need more time to print the game." Oh, and the Japanese version is not a testing tool for the North American version.
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Originally posted by: S-U-P-E-R
lol
Remember when this was gonna be a launch title?
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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
While I don't expect Nintendo to ever stop delaying games why is this sort of thing still newsworthy on a market leading console? We're supposed to have this big insane amount of third party games, both awesome and sh!tty, to eat up our time. We're supposed to have so many games that someone of any taste can always find something to spend time playing. We're supposed to have to pick and choose which MAJOR titles to skip because we can't afford to play them all. Yet here we are upset about one game being delayed for only a month.
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Originally posted by: S-U-P-E-R
Our terrible forum script is eating posts? This is new and exciting
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Originally posted by: Luigi Dude
Well it looks like it's time to buy a Japanese Wii. Unless we're getting exclusive content then this is total BS. Oh and if NOA dare removes content like those Japanese Pikmin songs then this is the ultimate finger they could give their fans. If the North American version of the game has LESS content then the Japanese version then we should be getting the damn thing first. There's no excuse, not one damn excuse we should have to wait an extra month for an inferior version of the game if Japan is getting the superior version in 2 weeks.
So the English version better have more content or at least the same amount of content as the Japanese version. Because if there's even one thing removed, even if it's just a sticker of some obscure Japanese only character nobody even nows about, that's still unexceptable, PERIOD
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Originally posted by: stevey
"A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever, and the laughs we get from suffering fans are priceless!"
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1 week after its released we will have no knowledge of this delay.
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It's like reliving Nintendo 64
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Metroid Prime 3 and Galaxy were both delayed
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If Super Paper Mario is anything to go by, we won't be seeing it until September
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N64 games weren't million sellers because of delays. It was because the userbase was so f*cking starved for games that if anything decent came out they grabbed it because nothing else would show up for months
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TP's delay or the Wii's name were topics that split the forum into seperate sides of debates.
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f your parents told you you weren't having dinner until next week would you feel loved? Then next week at dinner time they told you it wouldn't be ready for another year, THEN would you feel loved? Then when it FINALLY came time to eat dinner, they said dinner won't be served for another month...??? I would say your parents just like to torture you
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Originally posted by: Dasmos
I wonder how many of you crybabies would off yourself if it was delayed another month? Over-react much?
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Originally posted by: Dasmos
I wonder how many of you crybabies would off yourself if it was delayed another month? Over-react much?