Y’know, if we worked at Double Fine, we’d probably be spitting our pumpkin pie all over the office carpet right now. Costume Quest 2 was announced for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 this week – complete with exclusive Sackboy content no less – but when it was mentioned that SCEE hadn’t finalised a release date yet, we knew to expect the worst.
See, you may think that Sony is a shuffling body of incompetence in your part of the world, but you know nothing of the troubles that we face in these parts. Delays on the PlayStation Network are commonplace – we’re still waiting for Counter Strike: Global Offensive – but this latest setback takes the biscuit: a Hallowe’en game will now be launching after Hallowe’en.
Look, we get that there are regional differences, and SCEE has its hands full dealing with dozens of different nations, each with unique laws, languages, and requirements. However, the game’s available now for the Xbox One and Xbox 360 in Europe, and will also be available tomorrow on the Nintendo Wii U around the world. The question, then, is what’s the big chuffin’ hold up?
Perhaps we’re being a bit melodramatic, but we’re hoping that through our ranting and raving, someone might actually take this feedback on board. Double Fine’s putting a brave face on things on Twitter, but we’re eager to know just how many sales this delay is ultimately going to cost the game. Happy Hallowe'en, guys.
[source twitter.com, via eurogamer.net]
Comments (11)
I'd love to say that I'm surprised...
I've been a PS user since the end of 2012 (basically two years) and all I've seen is Sony (or in this case SCEE) go downhill. There's always something bad happening with Playstation now, whether it's DriveClub PS+ getting delayed, PSN constantly being down, worse PS+ game line up for every month, glitches/bugs/freezes with the consoles or games just not being released at their supposed time. The only thing that keeps me here are their games, without them they're nothing. I could get better services from Microsoft or even Nintendo.
Seeing as how well the Playstation division is doing and there isn't really any strong competition from either Nintendo nor Microsoft, it really seems that Sony will continue to not care about making their consoles better. :/
I know by the way that this isn't really relevant to this article but I just wanted to get this off my chest.
I don't think they'll rest on their laurels at all, but I do agree, there are some things quite frankly they need to do better. Someone from SCEE could be tearing their hair out reading this because they know what caused the delay and why it happened. If that's the case, though, just explain it - I think most consumers will understand if there's a reasonable explanation.
@Sadodi Nintendo may have a bit going for them right now - and I like the wii u, but their online is NOT better.
@ztpayne7 At least their online is not down every 2-3 days in the week, it's free and for the games that utilize it, it works flawlessly. So yeah, their online is pretty much better than on Playstation.
Not once has the Wii U not been working online (that I remember), Great seeing how it's free. Ps online on the other hand makes me wonder why I pay a subscription
Game looks fun and very Halloween orientated so this is a shame for Sony only console people.
@ztpayne7 Wii U online is free and doesn't go down every couple of weeks, I'd chalk that up as better currently.
Would've preferred CQ2 on PS4 for the trophies but will probably get it on Wii U along with Stealth inc 2. Don't ususlly whinge about Sony but this has officially annoyed me!
@LDXD @Jazzer94 @xVAKAR1ANx @Sadodi again, I'm a Nintendo supporter, but I don't think the online is as strong as you think. I don't feel like it's really been tested much - and no, I don't think the average person plays Mario kart online. I think smash will be a test. I have had 3ds issues with pokemon online in the past...and let's not forget that even server crashes happen to nintendo (pokemon bank comes to mind).
Also, their lack of cross buy for virtual console titles is a little sad at this point. And if your 3ds/Wii U dies or you sell them, you permanently lose every digital game/VC title you've ever paid for. I mean, to even re-establish my network id on my second wii u took them a month to figure out.
@ztpayne7 Mario Kart online supports 12 players, while Smash supports 4 player online. Mario Kart is already the test and it works wonderfully.
I also didn't realize that Pokémon Bank is a game? Also, we're talking about online on the home consoles.
I agree that Cross-Buy is needed on Nintendo's consoles but that's irrelevant to this subject. We're talking about the online infrastructure, not the accessibility to your games.
I've also noticed that three other people have the same thoughts as me and you're the single one out of five people to say that Sony's online is better than Nintendo's. I mean, it's pretty obvious that Sony's online is worse than Nintendo's, I've had more problems with Sony than with Nintendo and so does other people. You have to realize that.
@Sadodi I'm not here to argue so we may have to agree to disagree. I think Sony's network has some big problems right now - and it is unacceptable - but I just think that I would much rather have a Sony system instead of a Nintendo system based solely on the overall network (including all the things I mentioned before). Luckily, I don't have to choose because I have both. I genuinely hope Nintendo can handle it when Smash goes live.
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