Sega in No Rush to Unleash Unleashed Demo
Tristan Oliver | October 22, 2008
Source: May not Come Until Beginning of November
Many Sonic fans are wondering why Sega hasn’t pur forth one for Sonic Unleashed yet–with only about a month to go until the game’s final launch.
In a sign that Sega may actually care about the game’s polish than the sales it will receive come the holidays, we found this tidbit from ArchAngelUK, who runs the Sonic City Blognik. He was asked about the status of a demo, and this was his response:
I’ve no details about a demo atm, if you want me to guess I’m pretty sure you can rule out October and quite possibly the first week of November. I’ve not heard anything regarding a specific date for any demo as of yet. One was planned but I doubt SEGA will release the demo until they are happy with their presentation of it and tbh they’re more concerned with finalising Unleashed than coding up a demo.
You can look at the comment two ways. For one, it’s becoming clearer that Sega and the Sonic Team are dedicated to delivering a quality product upon release. On the other hand, this is crunch time, and there shouldn’t be a lot of coding left. If Sonic Team is still busy with coding the game, you have to wonder if a delay can’t be far behind.
What do you think? Let us know in the comments below.
Filed Under Sonic Scene, Sonic Unleashed, The Next Sonic
“As Microsoft requires all companies who publish games on their XBOX 360 console to provide a demo prior to release, many Sonic fans are wondering why Sega hasn’t pur forth one for Sonic Unleashed yet–with only about a month to go until the game’s final launch.”
I know you’ve said before you don’t own an Xbox 360 so I thought you’d like to know Microsoft doesn’t require all companies to provide a demo. There’s quite alot of games on the Xbox 360 that don’t have a demo up for download. Call of Duty 4 is one off the top of my head.
You’re right–achievements are required, demos are not. That’s prolly what I was thinking of.
Edited. Thanks.
This whole morning update thing will be the death of me yet.
-T
Again a delay requires a release date being announced which hasn’t been.
The above was indeed a pruely objective guess as stated, tho the point I was really making was better the creases are ironed out I’d imagine than taking valuable time to then take and rip out the bits of code required to make a demo.
I have enquired on the demo situation and will inform people when I have news – or not.
AAUK: Are we to believe then that all the hubbub surrounding a November release both in the States and in Europe may not be the case then?
I have seen a lot of Sega material change the date to “Holiday 2008″ and in the States Gamestop has had the thing pegged at November 18th for some time now. Could that all be for naught?
-T
I’d be interested as to what “a lot of SEGA material” is…..
GameStop can keep saying its November 18th until its blue in the face, some Euros are still saying Nov 7th – it doesn’t mean its accurate. At the moment there has been no official release date within Europe or the US regarding Unleashed otherwise we’d be saying it on all all communications and I’d be saying it to you now.
When we get it confirmed we will let people know, it might very well end up being Nov 18th or around then for US but that decision has yet to be made. Within November would be the aim.
For one, “Holiday 2008″ is the word on the official US Sonic Unleashed site…
-T
Its been that since the site went (finally) live Friday, Holiday is the US equivilent of “Christmas” (obviously) which Nov-Dec is kind of counted as that and Unleashed falls within that timeframe makes more sense to say that then Fall/Autumn if there could only be you know a couple of weeks of it left or wtv.
The page that was there before, the old “Enhanced Product Page” as they used to be termed hadn’t been updated in ages. If you insist I can give you a full rundown of what happened on a Wrecks blog later tonight.
It shouldn’t be “Holiday” 2008 on the UK site actually, it should say Winter, 2008 so I’ll have to wag my finger at SOA for that.
Right I ned to do some other work guys, cheers!
Thanks for the info, Archangel. All of us Sonic fans appreciate it.
You know we’re just excited to try the game ourselves. Playing a demo doesn’t matter to me, though. I have a Wii. LOL
I dont care about the demo for godsake. It only comes out in a few weeks. I can hold my butt until then.
Just make sure the games a-gooden sega so I dont regret those words.
I could care less. I’ll pick up the game for X-Mas try to enjoy it, even though it looks horrible, but, hey, I’ll give it a chance. Hopefully it’s one of those “Really isn’t good till you’ve done it yourself” type titles.
Man that SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So….Wii demo? xP
See, SEGA’s taking their time, not RUSHING, like SONIC ‘06! (No offense to SLJ, I know you liked 06)
ArchangelUK? As in SEGA’s Sonic City Blognik ArchangelUK? Sweet.
None taken, General. And, yes, it is cool to have AAUK here!
aww im pissed because my xbox broke…man this sucks!!! but im getting it for the WII though..
Well, it’s good to hear that they’re worrying about the final product. I sure hope Unleashed delivers and so far, the trailers have slapped a giant SOLD sticker on my face. XD A demo possibly at the beginning of November? Sounds good. ^^
I wish the demo would come out soon but i guess i can wait….
and btw CoD 4 and CoD WaW both have/had demos. You have to be a beta tester though and get the code. (I have one for WaW). The only thing is, the servers were shut down for the 4 demo.