Ubisoft on Splinter Cell Conviction delay: If it's not from an official source, it's a "punt"

Ashta - 577 days 17 hours ago

Ubisoft, are you saying it is delayed? or not? I mean....if it isn't delayed then what is the harm in saying that it isn't going "back to the drawing board"?

Surely an official statement can be made asserting that the game isn't being restarted without letting out release timelines.

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Azures - 577 days 17 hours ago

This story smells of real. We haven't seen anything new from this game for a looong time. The game looks like it plays like a much less open ended combo of Assassin's Creed and GTA4; Or like the Jason Bourne series without Jason Bourne.

Then again its nice to see a developer who specifically decided to deny the PS3 a version of this game fall on their face. Remember not only did they say they weren't making a ps3 version they proceeded to bash the system in the process.

Not taking a fanboy stance on this, but seeing a dev bash a system like that shows how immature this industry is getting.

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Montrealien - 577 days 17 hours ago

I can tell you for a fact that a dev that was no longer on the Splinter Cell project, told us a few months back that it was not going well, all this recent news is clearly a result of what he was saying. We usually get good insiders from the people not on lockdown and he seemed a little peeved at the whole Splinter Cell thing happening at Ubi Mtl. I`m willing to bet that the original `back to the drawing board` story is real and the game will be delayed.

Let`s hope they figure it all out and get this game going.

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MK_Red - 577 days 16 hours ago

Pretty bad news day for Ubisoft. First the Haze reviews, embargo and IGN's score and then, rumors of a huge Splinter Cell 5 delay and possible reboot.

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Merritt - 577 days 16 hours ago

No Splinter Cell game has ever been released on time, so this one won't be any different.

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BigKev45 - 577 days 16 hours ago

I'll pass on this one.

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dragonJP - 577 days 16 hours ago

"I've got a bad feeling about this."

Agreed 100% that if we get no NEW MATERIAL on this game by E3, then you can write off 2008 and most of 2009 for its release. Damn disappointing, especially for MS, who could use all the AAA exclusives it can get this year... still, if Ubi Montreal can get it together, there's still hope for a knockout game... eventually... I do miss Sam Fisher....

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Wildarmsjecht - 577 days 15 hours ago

http://videogamecentral.com...

Guess so.

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kingme71 - 577 days 15 hours ago

The story was saying this could possibly come out in late '09 or 2010? Wow, you could start a game today and get it out by then. Maybe they realized what they had wasn't working and started over from scratch, or maybe they took one look at Bourne and said well, that's better than what we got.

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RAM MAGNUMS - 577 days 17 hours ago

" unfortunatly we was going to make splinter cell conviction a xbox 360 exclusive but since electronic arts made tons of money on ps3, we are going to wait until the rest of the xbox 360 community backlashes against Microsoft. We want a profitable company to put our games on & besides, I hate the Xbox 360 right now! Since we been developing on the xbox360 we have had every single console die on us. Thats was what started the overall delay. I dont think we can push this console anymore because the xbox360 coughed & screamed at us to stop before they flatlined! So we did & now we are back to the old drawing board."

You heard here first.

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meepmoopmeep - 577 days 17 hours ago

Due to the poor hardware, lack of a standard HDD and a last-generation optical disc found exclusively on the Xbox 360, Ubisoft is sorry to inform the public that their vision for the Metal Gear Solid - Assassin's Creed wanna-be will be delayed because of the bottleneck the Xbox 360 has placed on the developers and the fear of the mighty Metal Gear Solid 4 game.

With Assassin's Creed and now Splinter Cell Conviction, Ubisoft have begun to realize that a great game can only be produced utilizing the Cell processor, standard HDD and capacity of the Blu-ray disc only found on the PLAYSTATION© 3.

Ubisoft regrets ever beginning Splinter Cell Conviction slated for a 2007 release due to the contraints of lack of good ideas for the franchise and poor hardware of the Xbox 360.

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heyheyhey - 577 days 15 hours ago

lol... Wait In?

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n00bPwner - 577 days 13 hours ago

u stupid droids will believe anything. of course this amazing 360 exclusive is still on track. oh, and it's not green or GRAY everywhere either, like some games.

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