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Nascar 4: What's the big deal? (/me hides for cover)

Tom Olive

Nascar 4: What's the big deal? (/me hides for cover)

by Tom Olive » Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:05:50

Not a horrible theory except Papy hasn't released a product that's made
significant revenue since N2 and to miss Christmas had to hurt. Plus giving
the market to Heat and timing a Daytona release just doesn't make any sense
to me.

I think they just got behind for whatever reason and had to slip. From what
I understand the demo was from a date that would have been pretty close to
the Gold date for a Christmas release and you can tell they were still
pretty far off from shipping if that's the case.

The truth is they are just really, really bad at getting anything out on
time. Don't forget this was suppose to ship as N3.

Tom



> > > Funny, some of the reasons Papy delayed N4 were from what they saw in

> Heat

> > I don't recall somebody from Papyrus saying such thing.  Anyway we all
> know
> > that N4 is far beyond what Papyrus is aiming for compared to NHeat.

>   Well here is my Xfiles *** theory.
> N4 was originally scheduled to be released last year.  ( I forget if the
> original date was in the summer but most likely Xmas 2k)  If the date was
> Summer '00 then I believe that date was bogus.  Why?  Nascar Heat did NOT
> want to go
> head to head with N4.  N4 is a known product from a known stable.  Even if
> Heat were superior, it would still lose in the consumer's mind as a "me
too"
> product.  So the Hasbro producers saw the listed release date of N4 and,
for
> business reasons, knew they had to be the first to the market.
>   The result, as we've seen with many other titles lately(Ultima 9, F12k)
> was the release of an unfinished product.  Hasbro blinked and rushed Heat
> out the door.  Sierra chuckled to themselves and THEN announced the REAL
> release date.(which, if you think back to last year's Daytona race, should
> have been obvious)
>   All the above is merely MY speculation and is NOT supported by any
facts,
> only my interpretation of how events have unfolded.
> dave henrie

markgam

Nascar 4: What's the big deal? (/me hides for cover)

by markgam » Thu, 01 Feb 2001 02:32:39

Hopefully they took advantage of the extra time to do some thorough bug
cleansing. I think they can expect to make some real money on this
project, but it won't help if they get a lot of bad press for problems
that they really did have time to find and fix.



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Eldre

Nascar 4: What's the big deal? (/me hides for cover)

by Eldre » Thu, 01 Feb 2001 06:35:20



>  The result, as we've seen with many other titles lately(Ultima 9, F12k)
>was the release of an unfinished product.  Hasbro blinked and rushed Heat
>out the door.  Sierra chuckled to themselves and THEN announced the REAL
>release date.(which, if you think back to last year's Daytona race, should
>have been obvious)

What did last year's race show?

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Eldre

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by Eldre » Thu, 01 Feb 2001 06:35:19


writes:

Not really a problem.  They probably know that there is a HUGE number of gamers
who wil buy the program anyway.  It doesn't matter if it's Christmas, Easter,
or July 4th...<g>
Remember, they had/have people reading these groups, too.  They *know* it will
sell well.

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Tim

Nascar 4: What's the big deal? (/me hides for cover)

by Tim » Thu, 01 Feb 2001 09:26:08

Please get a life Frank
:)



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Dave Henri

Nascar 4: What's the big deal? (/me hides for cover)

by Dave Henri » Thu, 01 Feb 2001 10:40:08

.(which, if you think back to last year's Daytona race, should
  The release of the demo with Daytona included.   That tipped us off to
several things...a) they FINALLY got Daytona, b) they  learned from EA that
the START of a season is the best time to release a sports title.
dave henrie

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