Briefly: Wolfenstein: The New Order was definitely one of my most anticipated titles for this holiday season, but it looks like we’ll have to anticipate it for just a little while longer.
Bethesda confirmed today at QuakeCon that The New Order has moved from later this year to sometime in 2014. In an interview with Polygon, Bethesda’s Peter Hines gave reason for the delay:
Working on next-gen and current gen definitely has an impact, you’re developing for two different things. The fact that the next-gen stuff is still moving is also definitely a factor. But the most important thing was definitely just looking where it was at, what they needed to polish. Because it’s just not trying to be a shooter, because it’s trying to be a shooter that also has driving elements, story elements, narrative, stealth sections – each one of those has to be excellent. It’s not just like we’re making a shooter, where if the shooting is good, then all 16 hours of the game will be good because it’s all we’re doing.
We didn’t just want to do a one-note Wolfenstein game. We wanted to make something that brought in all these elements, and as it turns out, the polish time you spend on the shooting stuff has no impact on what it feels like in the stealth part.
So there you have it. The game’s going to be awesome, but it won’t be awesome until next year. As the great Shigeru Miyamoto once said: “A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.”