Metroid: Other M, Sin & Punishment: Star Successor delayed

"A delayed game is eventually good; a bad game is bad forever."

Well dang.

That means I have to find something else to push me into Platinum status for the year.

;-; ;-; ;-; ;-; ;-;

(Though it's not so bad for me...I wouldn't have been in the country when Metroid came out)

I should have known. Now the only game that's going to get me through those months is Blur. Now instead of having a balanced game-purchasing schedule with two games Q2 (Blur, Metroid: Other M) and two games Q3 (Halo: Reach, Guitar Hero 6), it's now one game Q2 and three Q3. Let's hope we don't get another release date screwover like Brawl. Thanks, Nintendo. You reminded me why I bought my 360 in the first place.

How hard is it to translate games? If anyone has any insight in to how games brought from japan to other language speaking countries Id be interested in hearing it. What all changes other than the text / possibly voice acting?

they wanted to give us time to finish smg2 before moving onto something else

I can't help but wonder whether this has something to do with some of the complaints about the game from players of the demo, especially in regards to the translation and voice acting - even NINTENDO POWER complained about them. I just recently found out that one of the reasons Nintendo never released Disaster: Day of Crisis in the US was because of the awful (albeit, allegedly, hilarious) voice acting and dialogue. If they care that much about how their games - especially their first grand attempt at making a "cinematic" game - are perceived in terms of writing and VA, I can easily see them delaying the US release by a couple of months to smooth that over. I've never had a problem with Nintendo (or Team Ninja, or Blizzard, or even Valve) delaying games, since although it can be frustrating in the moment, it almost always means a more polished end product. And besides, it's not like there aren't tons of other new games coming out to play in the meantime.

The delays of S&P2 and MOM are good news, for S&P2 at least.
Sandwiching a gem like S&P2 between Mario and Metroid would kill it stone dead in sales.

This is good news for us multi-platform players. I am an avid Metroid fan since the first and Super, so I pick up every console version. With so many games coming out in the next 2-3 months I could use to extra time without Metroid to finish up my other must buy games like 3d dot game heroes, Transformers - War for Cybertron, and of course the time I want to spend in the Halo:Reach beta.

What seems bad is often times the best thing that could happen...*wink*