Ahahahahah that's so typical.
Not the fact that it comes later than expected, no, it's the fact that nobody tells you.
You guys can't imagine how much Sony's advertising and releasedate strategies get on my nerves, no, you really can't.
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Ahahahahah that's so typical.
Not the fact that it comes later than expected, no, it's the fact that nobody tells you.
You guys can't imagine how much Sony's advertising and releasedate strategies get on my nerves, no, you really can't.
this means I'm going to buy another game first, Burnout is getting a bit boring.
Nnnnnoooooooooo !!!!!!:brickwall
Bummer! Summer is typically considered to start on June 21st.
Ugh. Well, I guess it's for the best, I mean, MGS4 comes out in about 2 weeks. But still, I want Wipeout and I want it now!
hmm. it's still May from the official sony uk site but who knows. Release dates, and the way they are always moving are just there to really frustrate the fans imo :p
You guys have no idea how pissed of I am about this
I bought my ps3 back in december because at the time 31/12/07 was the published release date for WipEout HD on the AU playstation web site
It never came so i contacted sony and asked them where it way becasue they did not update the site.
date got changed to april - june
then in april the dat got change to 29/4/08 again it never came
I contacted sony and asked they why and also asked the for compensation because i've now been with out the game I bought my $700 ps3 for 5 month now.
I think we should start a class action against sony and it's misleading infomation.
Yeah but it's not like the ps3 has come down in price since December for us.
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yep. I might have even worse news: just talked to a source within Sony today, and he told me wipEout HD might not be out before September!!! He said he's not sure he's on the latest info, but the official date they are supposed to say if someone asks is September.
Please, someone from SL, get on here and ease our minds (and hearts) by denying this in favor of a more soon-ish date!
uff.Trying to pretend i didnt read that eLhabib.
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nope, not working. Bugger.
Well as long as it's getting released 'when it's ready', rather than 'when some bloke working in publishing thinks its a good time' i dont think we can complain. Still if it is September then maybe a little closed beta to make sure the multiplayer is superawesome is in order? :cowboy
Not only may Sony want to perfect the online gameplay, they may want to release Wipeout HD in the fall launch window, which always gets way more sales than summer releases.
Not sure if this holds for PSN downloadable games so well as optical media releases-- but in general it's absurd how much of a lift September/November/December releases get, and also the fraction of sales that occur during the first month of a release.
September holy crap can I kill myself and re spawn then.
i'm already sick of waiting
well 1up says this
http://www.1up.com/do/gameOverview?cId=3161157
WTF really? Maaan, sorry to break it to ya, but I'm not a big fan of Pulse... I only played some of it for like the first week... Pure was a hell lot better... that freaking sucks if that's true!! It's going to be so sick when it comes out though...
hello people,
on its european official playstation site, the date always May a 2008 for wipeout hd...a French site is also the first to have obtained the exact official date of release of the title : May 29, 2008, therefore let published this date on the official sites is deliberately to mislead the consumer...
:evil
I don't know wipeout fusion on ps2, so while waiting, playing wipeout fusion on its ps3 does helping little for have patience and it's worth the sorrow?
thanks (and sorry for my english)
Is there not laws about false advertising and publishing missleding infomation can we sue sony ???
Heh, seriously? Well, you could have had it in December, if you wanted to play something unfinished.
No-one's been misled. December was a serious date, but if problems come up, Sony can't just add a week on and release it then. There are release 'windows' to avoid other big launches and so on. I pity any publisher who tried to get a game noticed two or three weeks ago, for example.
Mario kart did just fine against gta4 and being me I would have bought all three if WO had have come out.
WO is as just as big a title as they are IMHO.
The main problem is sony arn't marketing WO in the same way and that will have a negative effect on sales.
What are liverpool studios and sony so scared of ??
Spend some money on faster development and some TV add's, sell and pitch WO to the world!!! It's an awsom franchise. Why keep it a hidden secret.
OH and PS bring back the neGcon
...sue them for what? False advertising is when they sell you a product and it doesn't match the description. Release dates for games change all the time, I fail to see what the problem is, it's not broken promises, any kind of serious gamer should realise that release dates always change, and if you're not a serious gamer, why are you here whining about release dates? This is exactly what's wrong with society today, people thinking they can fix everything with lawsuits. It's a video game, I'm sure you'll live if you have to wait a few extra months.Quote:
Originally Posted by Assimilator
@ Fascia.
Your missing the point Sony lured me into buying my ps3 back in december by advertising december as a release for the only particular game I was interested for the system at the time. When it did not launch I felt left out in the dark with a system with no game that I wanted to play or buy. Lets face it, good ps3 titles have been hard to come by.
As for a lawsuit I dont think so it just my way of showing anger.
not a serious gamer?? well i've been play video games since I got my commodore 64 back in 1984 so......
By advertising a range of upcoming games! The rascals.Quote:
Originally Posted by Assimilator
Mario Kart vs GTA4 isn't exactly a good example, either.
That list is from SCEA, not SCEE.
All WO releases were later in the U.S. so it still may come to European countries soon.
@ egg
mario kart and gta4 are infact perfect example of how to market a game.
dont get me wong I love wipeout I just dislike sonys inabillity to correctly market a game.
Ah, but you can release a Mario Kart game on the same day as a GTA game and still be fairly sure you'll sell pretty well, as they're different markets and different consoles, that was my point. MK is a huge franchise with an assured fanbase.. Wipeout on the other hand is still pretty niche (as sales of Pulse show).
I hope....:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ota
again pulse was very poorly marketed I dont beleive i've even seen a tv ad for it down here.
it's sad for me to say but the wipeout franchise suffered when psynosis died and and spat out the sour tasting fusion on the ps2.
pure and pulse were execlent games with just one thing missing "a neGcon".
I can tell you right now if I was a non serious gamer and I saw the Wipeout HD trailer on comercial tv or in a movie theater I would wet myself and want to buy a ps3 in an instant.
It's a serious maketting flaw to not advertise somthing that is considered niche.
niche means someone stumbled across somthing good
imagin the possibillitys if somthing good was thrust apon the wider community
ohh the sales.
Strangely, SCEA seem to have a fuzzy idea about WoHD in general. I read an interview with a SCEA guy on Crispy Gamer, where he speculated the Motion-Sensing might not make it into the finished game ... first I've heard of it :) :/Quote:
Originally Posted by Ota
well, I hope you're right. I'd really really really like to get my mits on this gem. You guys could always follow the strategy Criterion uses: update the game with new content after launch (and if it is succesfull enough to warrant it) might even give a boost in sales then.
I really hope you're right Ota. In fact, that's exactly what I thought. The game has been delayed several times, but for the first time we were given an (what seems to be according to some French sites) official date. Even if a delay is yet possible, I REALLY hope it won't be the case.
If the game was unfortunately delayed till September, it would mean a total delay of almost a year! ( nov-dec2007-sept2008 ):dizzy!!!
PS: Come on Egg, please give us a clue!!! ;)
What else comes out this month, whats the crack here are Sony afraid of HAZE or something?
It would be really annoying if the game was ready but being held back because it would supposedly sell better in X month, no, it would sell better if people knew it existed, all this Pulse tanked. Don't tell me no one at Sony knows why.
@ Rapid
thank you, finaly someone who undestands me
microsoft and sony are both playing the brand game
on the other hand Nintendo has the brand and a clever marketting stratgy.
I mean s**t the wii is not much more powerfull than the game cube and or even an xbox1 or a ps2 and it's sell more units than 360 and ps3.
Liverpool Studio and Sony, "Wipeout is a brand name, go out and sell it".
actually out the end of may on PSN is Fatal Inertia Ex, by all accounts a piss poor ripoff of wipeout.
Sure i can see the logic of not releasing both together, but it makes no sense that sony would delay their own game in favour of this? :brickwall
I've got this on the 360 you cannot even start comparing it to Wipeout, I mean its fun for a week or so but meh. Clearly it would get slaughtered it would be slaughtered if it were released at the same time as HD.
lol!! Poor mans Wipeout :gQuote:
Might have something to do with it being a middling racer, a poor man's WipEout that was met with a collective "meh."
well, the fact that Egg didn't instantly call bullshit on the September release rumor means it's not totally impossible (which SU-U-UCKS).
Let's face it, if it really came out in 2 weeks, we would know by now. It wasn't even on the Sony newsletter AT ALL this week.
I'm not the kind of fanboy who starts swearing at SL or Sony if my favorite game gets pushed further and further away, but even I am slowly starting to get pissed off. I ordered a Dualshock 3 this week, now it looks like it's gonna be available here anyway before wipEout HD comes out.
Just tell us what's up, SL. If you say it got pushed because of marketing, we'll accept that. If you tell us you're having trouble finalizing it, we'll accept that. If you tell us you don't know how long it's gonna be, we'll accept that, too. But not commenting at all to your most loyal fanbase is kind of a bad move imho. :/
Besides, ThreeSpeech has a WO HD banner running. They usually do this as some kind of countdown, and they're pretty well informed as the semi official site they are. Have faith. :)
I had also noticed this detail Ota!:g
After "lets be friends" (where both AG-SyS pilots!), lets hope together!:nod
PS: what elhabib says makes sense too... Not a word at Sony's gamers day, no news 2 weeks before the supposed release date... Hum...
I'm seeing things saying summer for the US, I don't think Europe would get it after the US so with that in mind, September is hardly summer.
"Just tell us what's up, SL. If you say it got pushed because of marketing, we'll accept that. If you tell us you're having trouble finalizing it, we'll accept that. If you tell us you don't know how long it's gonna be, we'll accept that, too. But not commenting at all to your most loyal fanbase is kind of a bad move imho. :/ "
almost exactly what I said. if it is a stealth release, expect this
stealth release = vector sales
So the release date now is the same time as wipeout pulse for ps2? I was really looking foward to HD soon, and pulse on the ps2 with a regular controller.
Fatal Inertia. have you played the entire game? It gets much faster, and floatier. It is not as polished as a wipeout game, but the floatiness is there. A couple of stupid things I did not like was the sound of the brake boost, and the weapon assist when you are behind(which the programmer told me was complletely toned down for the ps3 release, and possible taken out with a download to make it random. He also said the game is smoother and faster than the xbox version. I'll give it a shot, especially now that Hd probably won't be coming out anytime soon.
A note to developers. Cut the crap with assistance to the person behind. Noone who is serious about the game wants this, unless it is an option.
OK, half of this is off topic. end here
@ColdRem'S: Yeah, sure. :)
There may be some tactical depth in the team mate feature if there is one in the end.
However, AG has lost a lot since 2097. I fly whatever team that has me contracted. ;)
You all going to hate me for this!
To me, it`s perfect for me, when HD comes out and I will be ready by then after my gruelling golf schedules and I`m getting renovate my house, so my timing might be just about right.
*runs away and hide!
stevie:paperbag
TRAITOR! Men, ready the plank, throw some bloody meat in the water to tease the sharks! ;)