Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst

• SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Funny how CDPR themselves then had a major fuck up with Cyberpunk

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• Peffse@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  …and they followed it with Cyberpunk 2077’s disastrous launch but ultimate success. So I wouldn’t hold CDPR as a high standard.

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  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’d argue that is just another example of why delaying games isn’t a bad thing. 2077 clearly wasn’t ready at launch, and would have benefitted from a delayed launch.

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    • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I feel like that one was also due to awful development practices, they had the whole scrapping the entire first 2 years of work thing due to a control freak lead dev who was ultimately releaved of his position (though not until after release iirc)

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wouldn’t call it a success yet. I just started playing it for the first time yesterday and I have already fallen through the floor twice and the camera was broken causing seizure inducing visuals in one of the cutscenes.

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    • Peffse@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s right there in the link. It sold more than Witcher 3, even though it did the wrong thing by releasing early and buggy.

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• mostNONheinous@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You realize that rockstar basically invented this strategy right? Almost every release since vice city or San Andreas has been delayed by 6 months to a year to be the best game possible.

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I just assumed game companies had been doing that since the 1800’s.

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    • mostNONheinous@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sure you can argue standard practice has been and should be to deliver a finished game first and foremost. But in the context of modern gaming and setting release dates, Rockstar has historically been I afraid to change a release date to make a better game. But yes before the internet and the ability to patch a game it was standard to make sure your game didn’t suck before letting it loose.

      And my comment was more to point out that using CDPR as a shining beacon of consistently solid game releases is laughable, especially when comparing them to Rockstar.

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