Originally posted by Smasandian
Or the most likely scenerio is that its not to Myimoto's standards, and they need to polish it more.
Why would the push it back just for the sake of increasing presales. It was supposed to be released in Christmas and considering this is an really hyped up game, it wouldnt make sense to push it back for presales. They would of gotten alot more sales if it was before Christmas (and maybe sell some cheap Cube's)
We're talking about a game that is looking to be incredibly huge [sale wise & gameplay]. They couldn't be tweaking it one season behind release, since Gamespot said no earlier than April 2006. They ALWAYS push games back to increase presales, why do you think they didn't reveal the release date of Wind ?Waker, until you pre-ordered it, and got the OOT Bonus Disc? This is NORMAL with games like this, I've seen it happen tones of times since I've been playing games and noticed release dates. Resident Evil Outbreak:File #2, Resident Evil 4, Devil May Cry 2, Killer 7[this game was delayed for almost an additional year! The final delay was from April to July], Eternal Darkness. Final Fantasy X may be the only game in history that was put out early, just purely for the christmas sales, because Squaresoft [at the time] saw the presales, and wanted the complete $50 before Christmas.
I mean come on now people, this is completely normal, they always push the games back purely for the sake of presales, I'm sure with that announcement yesterday they were doing the final polishing on the game as we speak. Besides, it takes an additional 2 weeks longer than Ps2 or XBox to duplicate GameCube discs, most likely due to the small size.