Metroid Prime 3 quietly delayed a week, try to remain calm

Is this game available on XBLA?

august 27th (2008)

Of course, "Delayed" is a hallmark of XBLA.

It was suppose to be a launch game.. so, 'delayed' is a serious understatement.

The sky is falling!

oh god....

maybe its to polish online...

Screw online for wii, XBL!!!

for some reason my brain thought this game was coming august 30th so this is not a delay for me, but push forward.

now my 'babes of brinstar' calendar is ruined!

The mere mention of indelible ink reminds me of the great tune by Haywood Banks "The Revenge Song".

Listen here, you should get a good laugh.

http://www.heywoodbanks.com/listen.htm

Screw the 360 altogether generic games, sht talking kiddies on live thats 50 a year then add the fail rate lets not forget the BWC they swept under the rug,no thanks the 360 is to much money for they want for it, maybe when the CPU and GPU get in it,live is free and the price of the console is 299 for a preium it will be worth it.

Don't get me wrong the WII lack control over the control(no re map options or playing old games with the WIIs controls) add to it lack luster VC system that normal emulation still runs circles around option wise and the last thing wrong with the WII is the motion controls feel tacted on half the time,all in all the system is worth the price but tis no more prefect than the rest.

btw the PS3 is still a over priced media machine and a joke as a game machine.

Good. I'll have time to beat Bioshock before this game steals my life.

ZippyDSMlee: what?

Well DUH!

Man this sucks, I want this bad. When does Soul Calibur legends come out anyway?

Also, what the hell is this? I think the best part is where the guy gets smacked in the face with a pokeball.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyXUVd2c83c

At least its only a week. I can live with that.

"12. ZippyDSMlee: what?

Posted at 11:54AM on Jul 2nd 2007 by C. Grant"

My thoughts exactly. Usually I can decypher the comments here, but that one blew my mind.

thats right before halo 3 right?

Finally, a Wii game I might actually want to play. Lets hope it's good.

The actually delayed a sale with me. Blue Dragon is on the 27th, isn't it?

WOW, why have games for the Wii anyway?? It sells 400-500 thousand systems a month with nothing to play!! This is OUTRAGEOUS, 3-4 1st party games a year is'nt cutting the mustard when everything else are shameless ports!!

They probably delayed it to come up with a new box art...

No, but seriously, I can't wait for this game.

Same Here Kevin

I like the box art..........
Is there any news of a UK release yet? (cries)

Hmmm, I'm thinking with that extra week I may replay MP and go buy and play through MP2.

another week? I don't know much about game design, but how much can they do in a week? or maybe they expect huge sales right off, so they're taking the week to make as many copies as they can... hmm, I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing...

could they be trying to sell as many as they can right away before people figure out it sucks? I hope not... but it seems that if the game is good enough, people who don't get it the first week would still get it the next...

ok, I no longer make sense to myself, it is with this that I end my comment...

@25 maybe it just has to do with shipping, or maybe manual printing got delayed a week. it might have nothing to do with actual game development

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyXUVd2c83c

They delayed it a week to time it to be next to Labor Day. Now it's exactly one week before Labor Day so kids and whoever can buy it that week and have the three day weekend to play it.

There's more to delays than just development changes.

Now its one day AFTER my birthday

damnit, it was going to be so convenient, too

Plus, now the street date will be the second day of school (28), making my life that much more frazzled

20th was the perfect day, sigh...

I'm not too mad... its only a week. I probably won't even have money to buy it at launch anyways.

Just call me sambabelfish, kids:

"Screw the 360 altogether generic games, sht talking kiddies on live thats 50 a year then add the fail rate"

The 360 sucks. The games are boring and they tend to focus only on certain genres. In addition to that, there is a disturbing number of older gentlemen in their 50's, on live. Often times, these gentlemen pretend to be children/girls in an attempt to seduce other players for sex.

"lets not forget the BWC they swept under the rug,no thanks the 360 is to much money for they want for it, maybe when the CPU and GPU get in it,live is free and the price of the console is 299 for a preium it will be worth it."

Let us not forget about that Big, Wacky Cat they swept under the rug! It cost too much money! Maybe when it's cheaper to manufacture and that translates to a significant price drop, I will purchase an Xbox 360.


"Don't get me wrong the WII lack control over the control(no re map options or playing old games with the WIIs controls) add to it lack luster VC system that normal emulation still runs circles around option wise and the last thing wrong with the WII is the motion controls feel tacted on half the time,all in all the system is worth the price but tis no more prefect than the rest."

I do not fancy the limitations of the Wii Remote. Additionally, I feel the Virtual Console is for R-tards because you can download all those games for free-FREE- off the internets. Just use The Google. It's the truth!
Swinging back to my complaints about the Wii Remote, I also feel that the controls are hit-and-miss. However, I still am of the opinion that the Wii is of a reasonable value to the average consumer.

"btw the PS3 is still a over priced media machine and a joke as a game machine."

The PlayStation3 costs too much money and has no games.

Too bad this game won't have any online play at all.

Way to step up to the plate and not give consumers exactly what they want, multiplayer and ONLINE CAPABILITY. I wish I could think that the delay was so that they could add a multiplayer mode, but Nintendo never keeps big news hush-hush.

@ Jackson

Please:

Nintendo always keeps the biggest news under raps

And if it weren't Retro Studios developing this, i would say that E3 would surprise us, but i trust Retro to stick to their dislike of Multiplayer Metroid

Unless they get NST on developing it...

If they Don't add online multiplayer to this title it will be one of Nintendo's biggest mistakes and won't sell as well as it will with Online, but i believe they will have online why would they add online multiplayer to the DS metroid but not the Wii version, they are probably just waiting till E3 to announce it.

I don't really care, because I still have to finish Metroid prime, and prime 2 lol. It will give me an extra week to finish them games.

@32

Adding online or multiplayer simply for the sake of having it isn't always the best idea. Metroid is designed to be a single player first person adventure game. Not the biggest twitch shooter. Better to not have crappy multiplayer like there was in Prime 2 then to have it.

I don't think it will actually affect sales that much if it doesn't. People will probably be buying it for the adventure part then just the shooting.

Mr BoomStick XL

clearly its selling 400 thousand a month in the US becuase it is capturing a audience neither the ps3 adn 360 cant touch while still getting some sales from the hardcore market.. plus what does the wii sales have to do with this post?