Jan 22
Iwata Takes High Road, Apologizes For Brawl Delays
In the life of the Wii, no game has been more hyped than Super Smash Bros. Brawl, follow up to the cult hit Super Smash Bros Melee. With so much anticipation, it’s no wonder how upset fans were both times it was delayed, the first time from Dec 3, 2007 to Feb 10, 2008, and again back to March 9, 2008. Most of the time, when a development team is forced to delay a product, they come up with some asinine excuses, which is why Satoru Iwata, President of Nintendo, is a bigger man for straight up apologizing for Brawl’s delay. The apology comes at the beginning of his interview with Masahiro Sakurai, creator of Brawl, on the official Wii website.
“…I would like to offer an apology. With the completion of the game falling behind schedule, we were unable to keep our promised release date, despite our greatest efforts in attempting to release this game on time. I would like to extend my most sincere apology to all of our customers that are anticipating the title’s release, and also to our retailers.”
This is how Nintendo continues to be the good guy of gaming. Humbleness, sincerity, and gratitude will get you a long way in an industry that is all about the bottom line. Then again, I would be the nicest guy in the world if I had two systems that printed money. (But seriously Iwata, Brawl on March 9 or else it’s mutiny time.)
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It’s March 9th, dude.
Thanks Nathan, I had it right in the first paragraph but messed up in the last.
Meh, only reason I noticed is because I’m a smash addict and for a sec there was all, “oh, shit! That’s a week earlier! Did something happen?!” But no, of course not.
GAH! We were freakin’ supposed to have it by now!
Most people seem to forget that this is technically the third delay. Indeed, when they first started talking about the Revolution at E3 2005, Iwata (I think) said that the new Super Smash Bros. game would be a launch title. Then Sakurai was like, “Huh?” because they hadn’t even told him he’d be working on it yet.
… and I’ll be in Scotland before ye.