You'll have to over-wait for Fat Princess

by Griffin McElroy { Jun 20th 2009 at 3:30PM }

It looks like the much anticipated cake binging/capture the flag sim Fat Princess, which was promised to hit the PSN sometime in June, will not make its initial release window. Playstation.Blog Europe's Mike Kebby confirmed that while the game would have a global release date, said date won't be next week, and that we can expect the highly frosted gore fest to drop "at some point this summer." Hopefully the warm summer months won't whittle our precious Fat Princess down to just a Princess. That's not nearly as catchy a title.

Gallery: Fat Princess (4/29/09)

Tags: ctf, delays, fat-princess, release-date

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Sly @ Jun 20th 2009 3:39PM

dang, i was looking forward to this soooo much. and griffin, very nice headline execution. i give it... a 9/10.

Sly @ Jun 20th 2009 3:40PM

scratch that, 8.5/10.

Sly @ Jun 20th 2009 4:13PM

and wow, my sly cooper avatar finally uploaded. after 8 months. woohoo?

Alistair Azimuth PSN: johnnynumber5 @ Jun 20th 2009 5:43PM

no it looks like the guy from assassins creed ... rumor has it the PSN version was delayed to add additional content on the heels of the PSP version thats also releasing this year. There hasn't been a reason stated for the delay but the theory goes that the PSN version was looking kind of barren compared to all the stuff they added to the PSP one. This game is supposedly already finished so it makes perfect sense that they are delaying it to add some extra content. I was in the beta (as you know) and the game had no bugs to speak of and was super polished. I can't wait for this one even though I was hoping it would be out next week.

Sly @ Jun 20th 2009 6:00PM

:O

there's a PSP version?! still multiplayer? WHEN WAS THIS ANNOUNCED?!

Sly @ Jun 20th 2009 6:05PM

oh, and johnny, here's the proof that it uploaded.

http://s926.photobucket.com/albums/ad103/slycooper_rocker/?action=view¤t=slyavatarscreenshotinchrome.jpg

sony boy @ Jun 20th 2009 6:46PM

a psp version with near ps3 graphics with online play and 50% more content.

http://psp.ign.com/articles/990/990358p1.html

Alistair Azimuth PSN: johnnynumber5 @ Jun 20th 2009 6:57PM

PSP version was announced at E3 without much fan fare and is called Fat Princess Fist Full Of Cake and will feature all the PS3 content plus additional content (see the youtube link below).

As far as the avatar goes ... All I'm seeing is that Enzio dude from you at the moment. Changing the avatar is a chore on Joystiq for some reason. Somehow this Allistair Azimuth avatar updated right away and has been there ever since only reverting to Kenny Powers and the pillsbury dough boy a few times.

What I've noticed seem to work best is if you resize the picture to something like 79x79 pixels or something a little bigger but equally proportioned. Then, just update it like 10 times in a row and it should stick more of then not.

Game looks awesome ... Can't wait for both versions.

Fat Princess PSP:
http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/696228/Fat-Princess-PSP-E3-2009-Preview-More-Modes-More-Levels-And-Single-Player.html?utm_source=g4tv&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=TheFeed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g1FXg5_yxk

Alistair Azimuth PSN: johnnynumber5 @ Jun 20th 2009 7:05PM

should've refreshed before posting. Sony Boy stole my thunder :(

NotBrandonCrane @ Jun 20th 2009 3:42PM

I could have sworn I saw a video that said September 2009.

MarkHawk @ Jun 20th 2009 3:41PM

I feel this game missed the mark. It was announced way to early and like many good looking games for the PS3 I feel like I'll have to wait entirely to long to play it.

doc j @ Jun 21st 2009 12:31AM

I second your sentiment, but this is nothing compared to games like Alan Wake, Heavy Rain, LA Noir, etc. If I remember correctly, this game was announced last July. I feel like a year is a pretty fair announcement window. A little on the long side, but not egregiously so.

[tre] @ Jun 20th 2009 3:43PM

Very nice headline. I give it a 8.7.

Babel @ Jun 20th 2009 5:38PM

You're such a fanboy. No way is it 8.7.

I'd give it 8.2. It's just rubbish, quite frankly.

Furthermore, NOOOOOOOO! I want this game now! I guess Calling All Cars will have to satiate my cartoony chaos appetite.

giantenemycrab @ Jun 20th 2009 7:32PM

The headline is SOOO overrated. Griffin is paying people off for high reviews, Eidos style. The headline is a 5 AT BEST. I'll wait for the sequel.

[tre] @ Jun 23rd 2009 12:00AM

Me, fanboy? Nevvvvvvvvvverrrrrrrrrrrr....

Now, can you say "fantween"?

Mychas @ Jun 20th 2009 3:48PM

PSN GOTY candidate. Looks like a great deal of fun, especially if they can find a way to get some nice teamwork going.

[tre] @ Jun 20th 2009 3:57PM

That is, if it even DOES come out in 2009...

I don't know if it even will. Since the game's apparently "offensive to fat people", they're protesting it... and yet, the movie "Super Size Me" is also "offensive" to them and people applauded it.

DeathroW @ Jun 20th 2009 4:28PM

It will come out in 09.. the beta seemed pretty finished to me.. no major issues or anything.

NFK @ Jun 20th 2009 6:42PM

Big boned Princess?

wallywallas @ Jun 20th 2009 8:10PM

That's what she said.

ragingdrunk @ Jun 20th 2009 11:12PM

Thyroid problem princess?

Nineteen88 @ Jun 20th 2009 3:56PM

Hey Griffin, I love the fact that you haven't used the word "Delayed" in your article.

Kombat @ Jun 20th 2009 3:59PM

im in the beta... shits wack... played it for all of 20 mins.. half of that just trying to get in a game..

not feeling this game at all

Luke @ Jun 20th 2009 4:22PM

Can I download the beta from you? :)

Sly @ Jun 20th 2009 4:30PM

wow, that's not what i've heard from other people with the beta. all of them said it was really awesome. is the matchmaking that bad?

MaliceMajorE15 @ Jun 20th 2009 5:34PM

im in the beta. the matchmaking was bad at first but the latest version which you have to delete the old one and download again from your list is better. i was disapointed with the beta as a whole though. it just isnt real fun after a while

Levi @ Jun 20th 2009 6:13PM

When will you kids stop down voting people that share their opinions when they are clearly not trolling?

Alistair Azimuth PSN: johnnynumber5 @ Jun 20th 2009 6:45PM

I don't know b/c I'm in the beta and the shit is amazing. Different strokes and all that.

wallywallas @ Jun 20th 2009 8:14PM

Have to agree. The beta is awesomely fun.

Considering that it was only 1 map, and has so much more strategy than what can be seen on the surface, it is a candidate for GOTY imo.

And yes, the beta was horrible the first week, with logging on being close to impossible, the latest install changed everything for the better.

All i want to know is when, how much, and how many maps... Titan?

pspfanboi @ Jun 20th 2009 4:01PM

Since the game missed its target release date, it has dropped about 6 points in my book, which translates to a no-go. sorry. looks like i will just have to wait for cod6 a little longer.

Jack_Jackington @ Jun 20th 2009 5:00PM

When is CoD6 coming out?

Sly @ Jun 20th 2009 6:01PM

november 10 this year.

Levi @ Jun 20th 2009 6:16PM

because the game being pushed back is totally going to make it less fun. Yeah, I'm with you brother. This game is gonna be total crap. Too bad it isn't releasing this month, it might actually be good.

...wtf?

Alistair Azimuth PSN: johnnynumber5 @ Jun 20th 2009 7:09PM

Call Of Duty 6 hasn't been announced yet. You guys might be thinking of Modern Warfare 2.

I hate to sound like a little bitch with all that but it's not COD 6.

Levi @ Jun 20th 2009 7:21PM

yeah, and it's not CoD5 either. It's WaW. I think it will be funny when they announce CoD5, and everyone has to stop calling WaW 5.

Sly @ Jun 20th 2009 8:03PM

hey, i've seen some retailer listings say "call of duty 6: modern warfare 2". so it's safe to assume it's COD6 for now.

Pat @ Jun 20th 2009 8:13PM

This shows there is no winning with critics: when a game gets delayed it gets blasted for being late and we start hearing about the "Delay- Station" (remember that?). On the other hand when a game comes out on time but a patch follows shortly after the game gets blasted for not taking extra time to fix or put everything in it from the get-go.

This game will be as worthy and fun within the next three months as it would have been next week.