Nintendo has pushed back the release date of Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp, previously scheduled for launch next month. The reason for the delay was, "in light of recent world events", and sees the remake being delayed indefinitely for now. Nintendo says to stay tuned for a new release date. The game was already delayed once before, having been originally set for a December 2021 launch.

In light of recent world events, we have made the decision to delay Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp, which was originally scheduled to release on Nintendo Switch on April 8th. Please stay tuned for updates on a new release date.

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) March 9, 2022

 

[ZeroFX]

I don't see how this is related to laziness. If they release a half finished game, then yes, you can call that laziness. This is more like Nintendo, like many other companies that delay their games/announcements because of this event, are overreacting. Nintendo could have just donate to charity like all the other people that did if they care about what's going on.

Overreaction, lazyness, virtue signaling, call it what you wish.

 

[xdarkx]

Overreaction, lazyness, virtue signaling, call it what you wish.

All those terms mean different things. Don't quote me if you don't know the difference.

 

[Immortallix]

I don't think it's laziness at all, It's just not the best time to promote a game about war special operations.
I know, it's a cartoony game with a light hearted story, how sensitive can you be? Well many are quite sensitive right now.
The original Advance Wars 1 + 2 are still the best versions anyway.

Well if you're trying to escape Ukraine right now I'm not sure why you have the time to be sensitive about a Nintendo game portraying war. If you're anyone else you could like, buy the game when you're ready if it bugs you that much rn?

 

[blakeana]

holy shit even here GBATempies leave their brains at the entrance and are losing shit over a game delay... play something else and stop crying, you look like petty children with that attitude and you claim to be grown ass adults..

 

[LoggerMan]

It is in poor taste to release something that makes a game of war when a war is happening in Europe. The last two great European wars totally reshaped Japan into what it is today so releasing a game about tanks and troops and jets capturing cities during an invasion seems especially bad timing. The war will end soon enough and the game will be released, only some of us outside of Ukraine will die between now and the new release so it's not the end of the world.

 

[Deleted member 382007]

holy shit even here GBATempies leave their brains at the entrance and are losing shit over a game delay... play something else and stop crying, you look like petty children with that attitude and you claim to be grown ass adults..

I haven't been active here in a very long time. I decided to have a peek at the comments in this article and... wow. I wouldn't have expected this forum to turn into Trump-era NeoGAF. Users complaining about "lazy devs", "woke culture" and "virtue signalling", as if Nintendo delaying one game was a personal offense to them.

Yeah, well. You thinly-veiled alt-righters can eff off. This forum has become a dumpster full of wannabe fascists who lose their marbles over a fucking video game being delayed.

 

[blakeana]

h

I haven't been active here in a very long time. I decided to have a peek at the comments in this article and... wow. I wouldn't have expected this forum to turn into Trump-era NeoGAF. Users complaining about "lazy devs", "woke culture" and "virtue signalling", as if Nintendo delaying one game was a personal offense to them.

Yeah, well. You thinly-veiled alt-righters can eff off. This forum has become a dumpster full of wannabe fascists who lose their marbles over a fucking video game being delayed.

hol up bud you're gonna offend them by calling them alt-righters or fascists /s

 

[zoogie]

Not really big concern with me -- I'm not a big fan of the series anyway. Now, that might change if things degrade to the point where Fallout games start being pulled off the shelves

 

[ZeroFX]

All those terms mean different things. Don't quote me if you don't know the difference.

Quoting you to double down, all come from the same tree, ninty warrior.

 

[kisamesama]

it's a shame... I wanted so much to play ukraine vs russia and Afghanistan vs USA

 

[HarveyHouston]

All right, WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS?! Don't tell me - one of you developers live in Ukraine, right?

 

[xdarkx]

Quoting you to double down, all come from the same tree, ninty warrior.

That is one of the dumbest response I heard. All I did was calling you out for not using the right word in this stupid decision by Nintendo, and calling out how this is overreacting on not just Nintendo but other companies that follow suit. It's clear to me you don't understand the what the word laziness means and that you don't have good reading comprehension.

Ironically, you not explaining how this decision by Nintendo is them being laziness is an example of you being lazy.

 

[djnate27]

Amusing fact to follow this, the EU and JP releases were delayed, which was speculated to be because they were set to launch just after Sep 11th happened.

Interesting thought to follow this, if those speculations are true...it shows that the company was/still is not making 'chasing the almighty dollar' their primary concern here, whereas some other companies wouldn't care. Props to them.

 

[ZeroFX]

That is one of the dumbest response I heard. All I did was calling you out for not using the right word in this stupid decision by Nintendo, and calling out how this is overreacting on not just Nintendo but other companies that follow suit. It's clear to me you don't understand the what the word laziness means and that you don't have good reading comprehension.

Ironically, you not explaining how this decision by Nintendo is them being laziness is an example of you being lazy.

Sure, i got called out for saying a lazy company is lazy *facepalm*.

 

[WG481]

I think what they meant is that they think it's 'too soon' to release a game about invading armies.

Coincidentally, according to Wikipedia, supposedly the original AW got delayed in EU/JAP by 9/11.

Exactly.
Could not have said it better myself.
It's way too soon to release a game about that.

Y'all gotta understand that it's a GBA remake. There isn't too much they have left to do, so it's not a development issue. The Russo-Ukrainian war is an actual thing that's going on in the world, and despite what y'all complain about, there's going to be major world effects.

 

[xdarkx]

Sure, i got called out for saying a lazy company is lazy *facepalm*.

I'm calling you out for not explain HOW or WHY they are being lazy for making this decision, which you never once explained in any of your posts in this thread. Like I said, you don't have good reading comprehension, and your quote replies proofs it.

 

[FAST6191]

Exactly.
Could not have said it better myself.
It's way too soon to release a game about that.

Y'all gotta understand that it's a GBA remake. There isn't too much they have left to do, so it's not a development issue. The Russo-Ukrainian war is an actual thing that's going on in the world, and despite what y'all complain about, there's going to be major world effects.

Are the effects in this case justified? Are we worried that some Russian general is going to play it, learn the importance of good logistics, training, land use and suddenly effect a better strategy? Is some lady going to be passing a game shop, note that a game covering war is in there, not have her fainting couch nearby and consequently smack her head on the pavement, something that would not have happened were it banned?

As far as GBA remake so little work I am not entirely convinced. The differences in the videos and what is likely to be fairly early stage embedded C from 20+ years ago mean a more creative reinterpretation might be warranted, or indeed tempting (the AI is not brilliant in these games with any hardness coming from trying to figure out the thread of logic the devs were going for, because you are playing a human or because the AI has the thumb put on its scale) compared to someone porting a late stage PS360 game to PS4/xbone.
It could a little more than "press recompile with new art and go from there" but there is room to ponder that one.

 

[WG481]

Are the effects in this case justified?

Yes.
This is both a sensitivity thing and a business thing.
Nintendo has always been a family-friendly company, and it just seems insensitive to put a modern warfare game on the eShop during the Russian Invasion, in which over two million people have been displaced by the same type of modern warfare modeled in the Wars series. (Modern warfare is in reference to warfare involving guns, tanks, aircraft, etc, which have existed in the "modern" era of wars.)
You also have to take into account the business sense of this. By delaying the release, they're also preventing further backlash from consumers. If the conflict was still going around the release date, then an army of people could potentially* take to the internet and slam Nintendo over insensitivity. By choosing not to release it, they're preventing a business conflict.

*I'm not saying they will, but they could.

 

[FAST6191]

Yes.
This is both a sensitivity thing and a business thing.
Nintendo has always been a family-friendly company, and it just seems insensitive to put a modern warfare game on the eShop during the Russian Invasion, in which over two million people have been displaced by the same type of modern warfare modeled in the Wars series. (Modern warfare is in reference to warfare involving guns, tanks, aircraft, etc, which have existed in the "modern" era of wars.)
You also have to take into account the business sense of this. By delaying the release, they're also preventing further backlash from consumers. If the conflict was still going around the release date, then an army of people could potentially* take to the internet and slam Nintendo over insensitivity. By choosing not to release it, they're preventing a business conflict.

*I'm not saying they will, but they could.

There have been wars every 5 years since... we started growing crops really, and if modern is a cutoff then not later than world war 2 (Spanish civil, Russia-Japan, some even going as far back as American civil which I might debate but can stand to see a case for) but outside of living memory at this point. As others mentioned it is not like hot warfare has not been a thing throughout all this, not sure what is particularly special about this current round of eastern europe gonna eastern europe (I too am surprised it is not the Balkans again) compared to any of those (all of which saw fun TV shows and films and games... actually some are still ongoing, never mind completely fictional scenarios).

That said appeasing people that like to be offended on behalf of other people, or at least not giving them ammo, is something that works. Can't say I find it commendable as a course of action (stand tall or don't stand at all) but path of least resistance... is something those games kind by default I suppose.

 

[ZeroFX]

I'm calling you out for not explain HOW or WHY they are being lazy for making this decision, which you never once explained in any of your posts in this thread. Like I said, you don't have good reading comprehension, and your quote replies proofs it.

You need a psychiatrist.