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Eidos Game Delays

by Maarten Goldstein, Jul 16, 2005 11:21am PDT

Related Topics – Delay, Eidos

According to a story on Kikizo Games, both Hitman: Blood Money and Tomb Raider: Legend have been delayed until early 2006. According to Eidos, the decision to delay the games was made to "maximise their hit potential".

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By: rigg5kthx x Show Full Post

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maybe it has something to do with a new tomb raider movie and hitman movie

Jul 16, 2005 12:41pm PDT

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maybe it has something to do with a new tomb raider movie and hitman movie : rigg5kthx
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  Ohh, man another Tomb Raider movie? Damn, those sucked. : Pettytheft
  - I could imagine a Hitman movie doing very well. I could imagine it being horrible too though D: : TrptJim
- Wait, are you talking about the upcoming TR fan-film "Tears of the Dragon" or was there an official annou... : SixDemonBag

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This isn't a development delay, this is a delay that allows them to not release in Christmas and have the Feb-march months, so they have better sales with less competition. They know if they releas at Xmas their sales will be lower due to the 360 coming out and the plethora of games that will be out, this is purely a marketting decision, not a dev one.

$10 they won't even be working on the game past a certain point.

Troika did the same thing with Vampire, they knew they couldn't release it and had to delay it six months for marketting purposes, otherwise they'd get buried in the HL2 press deluge, but they didn't work on the game for those six months, they moved on.

Jul 16, 2005 5:29pm PDT

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This isn't a development delay, this is a delay that allows them to not release in Christmas and have the... : SubrealDotNet
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Son of a bitch. GIVE US OUR HITMAN.

Jul 16, 2005 8:02pm PDT

Son of a bitch. GIVE US OUR HITMAN. : silly

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At this point, it's better never than late. Go farm up some new properties, Eidos.

Jul 16, 2005 4:41pm PDT

At this point, it's better never than late. Go farm up some new properties, Eidos. : the archvile

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Very bad choice at this point from Eidos, especially for Hitman, in the past they rushed most things out of the door, now they wait until everything is really polished! Sounds good but the graphics of HBM, which are an major aspect now, wonÃ‚Â´t look as good by then because weÃ‚Â´ve seen Perfect Dark Zero and some other nextgen stuff by then!

Jul 16, 2005 2:30pm PDT

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Very bad choice at this point from Eidos, especially for Hitman, in the past they rushed most things out ... : PnCia
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- You really can't win with some people. Dude, reconsider. : aavenr

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"According to Eidos, the decision to delay the games was made to "maximise their hit potential"

I think it should have read:

"According to Eidos, the decision to delay the games was made to "minimize their suck potential".

Jul 16, 2005 12:34pm PDT

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"According to Eidos, the decision to delay the games was made to "maximise their hit potential" I thin... : athlon
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- Or even simpler - "we need more time". : Porkasaurus

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Is this a sign of a publisher actually having a semblance of a clue of what makes a good game? Is Eidos changing its oh so "wise" ways at last?

Jul 16, 2005 11:31am PDT

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  I doubt it. Developer: Dude, we're going to need like another year to make this game. Eidos: Ok, yo... : floated
  - well, in the case of hitman, they received quite a lot of criticism over contracts being released very so... : grimiv
- tomb raider = good game? does not compute. : kbnerd

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Maybe so they can get xbox360 versions out at the same time? I have heard that TR will have a next gen version at least.

Jul 16, 2005 11:55am PDT

Maybe so they can get xbox360 versions out at the same time? I have heard that TR will have a next gen ve... : ShadeOGreen

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Dammit, I really want to play Hitman. But if delaying it makes it a better game then I'm all for it.

But I want to play it now. :(

Jul 16, 2005 11:44am PDT

Dammit, I really want to play Hitman. But if delaying it makes it a better game then I'm all for it. ... : freshyk