Conduit 2's All Seeing Eye avoids GoldenEye, moves to 2011

by Andrew Yoon on Sep 3rd 2010 7:00PM

November 2 was going to mark the release of not one, but two high-profile first person shooters on Wii: Conduit 2 and GoldenEye. It looks like Sega and High Voltage are taking a step back, telling Nintendojo that the Conduit sequel has been pushed back to Q1 2011.

There's no specified reason for the delay, but it's likely that Q1 offered a better release window for the Wii shooter. Sega famously released Resonance of Fate one week after Final Fantasy XIII. Presumably, Sega would want a better fate for Conduit 2.

Via: 1UP
Source: Nintendojo

Tags: conduit-2, delay, High-Voltage-Software, nintendo, release-date, sega, The-Conduit-2, wii

Reader Comments (34)

I thought the first game was dumb and I won't be buying the second. Bad franchise is bad.

Oh by the ... Metroid other M is amazing

@Johnnynumber5 is powered by cell

http://g4tv.com/games/wii/61992/Metroid-Other-M/review/

@The MARIO I tend to enjoy G4's reviews, but it would seem that you believe this review automatically invalidates Johnny's opinion, which is absurd.

Or am I jumping to conclusions, here?

@The MARIO
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/08/27/metroid-other-m-review/

@The MARIO; G4 is a joke. Metroid Other M is one of the retail games I've played all year.

@The MARIO

Wait, that review was written by a serious, professional reviewer? My god, her main negative points on how the game doesn't present enough feminist ideals and how she has human emotions, and how the game isn't a copy of Super Metroid.

Nothing wrong with the gameplay, graphics, anything like that. Just not enough feminist ideals and Super Metroid....

@Shadowbender
I respect his opinion, I posted the review on my opinion of the game. I was fairly disappointed with it.

@The MARIO

I bought Metroid: Other M last night and it's really, really good. It's still classic Metroid, but with a more action approach which is pretty kick-ass, and the cinematic approach is stunning for being a Nintendo game. The controls haven't even been an issue for me. I've been able to smoothly transition between third and first person fairly easily without too much thought.

@Haelie; My ability to put together a coherent sentence is a joke.

best retail games*

They knew they had no chance in hell against Goldeneye.

Now they are going to release it the same day as Killzone 3 and Gears of War 3.

@billysea

neither of which is on Wii, good comprison.

@Faenix Does it matter if it's on Wii.

Serious gamers who have Wii's are surely to have another console, whether that be PS3, 360, or both. So these consumers could potentially allow the game to fail. What dev or publisher wants that? It happened with Red Dead, which sold gazillions, and that hurt sales for exclusives all around.

@Shadowbender

None of the games around RDR really appealed to many, Alan Wake was probably the only game that appealed to me around RDR.. but not for $60.

@Shadowbender

I've been playing games 25 years, i'm about as "serious" as a gamer can get, and i only own a Wii. I wouldn't have it any other way. Console with the most A+ exclusives this gen? Yes please!

@billysea Hmm... that's not good for Sega, even if the titles on other platforms. This will take away marketing attention from C2.

No offense to Conduit or GoldenEye, but I'm looking forward to Ghost Recon on the Wii. Even though, I'll be plenty busy w/ GT5, CoD, NFS, and etc in Nov, it still looks good to be a Wii game.

@MLC You're forgetting two grand games that come out then: Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and LittleBigPlanet 2, my friend.

@Shadowbender

I didn't forget about those games. There's also DCUO, and GoW. That's why I said ETC!

@MLC

Ghost Recon unfortunately looks terrible. I just read the NP preview and I already am disappointed. It's on rails(though you have "point and click" control), and it looks dumbed down from the previous ones.

@MLC

Don't forget Kinect too. I've got mine paid in full already.

@MLC

The Wii version of Ghost Recon looks to me like Ubisoft's trying once again to justify to their investors why they don't put out quality games on Wii by releasing another low-budget fourth-string version of a popular franchise on the system.

And I was hoping we'd be past all this by now.

@ItsameMatt03

Sorry to break to you pal but I didn't mention Kinect cause I have no interest in getting Kinect. $150 is a lot of money just for hands free navigation. To each his own...

That's a shame. Was looking forward to it. They know what they did wrong with the first game and everything I've heard so far seems to be aiming towards fixing all the problems. Oh well, the Wii's schedule looks great so I can wait. :)

"Presumably, Sega would want a better fate for Conduit 2."

Nah, they're probably just waiting to release it the same day as Zelda.

@Esposch

FFFFUUUUUUUUUU

I'll buy it day one no matter when it comes out.

The first one wasn't bad, just mediocre, but it was solidly built. One of the coolest things about it is it's the only game I have ever found that has allowed me to completely customize anything in the controls and on-screen. I wish every game did that.

At last, one of the big publishers wakes up enough to avoid getting a good game crushed during the holiday release season. Hopefully the Q1 release schedule will continue to allow games to survive the Nov/Dec deluge.

The above article fails to mention (but Joystiq does note elsewhere) that C2 is now getting a more traditional FPS control set-up with support for the Classic Controller Pro--this should help give it a little more appeal.

Sure, haters will hate, but for those of us who own (or are stuck with) a Wii, this delay is potentially welcome news. What will be far more interesting to watch will be to see what Sega does if GoldenEye's sales stall at launch.

The delay was probably for the better, but that doesn't mean Conduit 2 won't have any competition now. Supposedly Zelda, Pokemon Black & White, and the 3DS are going to be released in Q1 2010, and that's just for Nintendo systems. Still beats going up against a remake of Goldeneye and then another Call of Duty a week later, though.

Smart move, Conduit. Smart move.
I was seriously worried about them having to compete with GoldenEye...
No Wii FPS can compete with the hype of GoldenEye even if it had friggin' ninjas taking down Godzilla robots...

@blahblah55 Now now! Let's not be too hasty...

I don't know why this game is running from Goldeneye. I predict a backlash against Goldeneye. It's not even Goldeneye.

@bootleggamercom

Despite not being the original game, Goldeneye still seems to have more than a few things going for it (Local multiplayer with lots of variety, solid production values, decent hype and marketing) so whatever backlash it gets can't be too horrible.

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Conduit 2

Conduit 2's All Seeing Eye avoids GoldenEye, moves to 2011

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Posted: Sep 3rd 2010 7:05PM Johnnynumber5 is powered by cell said

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