 Hey everyone welcome back to the Nintendo Prime and today we're talking about Doom Eternal one of the biggest releases of this year or at least it was one of the biggest releases of this year especially for Switch but they announced via Twitter and other social media platforms in software said that Doom Eternal is now being delayed I just being delayed till next year and releasing on March 20th 2020 they're also including a Doom 64 on all platforms Xbox PlayStation 4 and Switch PC as well for free if you happen to pre-order the game however Doom 64 itself also won't released until March 20th maybe that's just to ensure that if you pre-order the game you also then bought the game instead of pre-order then cancelled your pre-order now you have Doom 64 for free that's why I assume it's gonna launch on the same date but even worse news I guess quote unquote worse news for Switch owners is the Nintendo Switch version itself will actually be releasing sometime after the game releases on other platforms now this is obviously some sad news for people that maybe wanted to play Doom Eternal right now and we're hoping for a date and date release even with a delay for Switch but I'm here to tell you that this is actually a positive believe it or not I know that might be hard to believe but I firmly believe that it is a positive thing when games are delayed especially a triple A game especially one that's a premier franchise like Doom you see too often games come out incomplete they come out buggy they come out broken with promises of fixing them later heck even when Doom releases in 2020 one of the multiplayer modes isn't coming out right away it's coming out as a free update later so even with the delay Doom isn't complete at launch Doom Eternal so it's still falling victim to a bit of rushing to the gate but I I do applaud its offer for this delay because I do think that this is what is best for the game with Nintendo delays games a lot right as Nintendo fans were used to this Zelda games are infamously always delayed like if they announce at the beginning of next year that Breath of the Wild 2 is coming out in 2020 you might as well bank on 2021 maybe if not delayed until switch to in 2022 or 2023 because that's what Nintendo does with Zelda and they do this with a lot of games where they end up delaying the release date by a month two months or multiple years remember Breath of the Wild was originally supposed to release in 2015 didn't come out until launch of Switch in 2017 so you never know with Nintendo and ultimately I think most of us can say the delay of the Breath of the Wild game made a lot of sense because not only did it help launch a platform instead of being stuck on Wii U where it's kind of a dead platform and maybe by the time it gets ported to Switch even if it's ported at launch the excitement for the game is gone they launched a new platform with it and you could argue the game might have been better because of it so that is something to take into consideration when you're talking about game delays is that in this case Doom Eternal is not being delayed to be a PlayStation 5 launch title or anything like that which is a bunch of PlayStation 5 news about today for those who don't know it is coming holiday next year that's really all you need to know right now something about real-time ray tracing whatever it doesn't really matter till we actually see it in action but what I do think is important here is that id Software recognizes the games are done why why release at their target release date of this year if the game isn't done yeah I played it at E3 yeah it was pretty damn good at E3 didn't get to play it on Switch we're gonna play it on PC pretty damn good but I'm okay with game delays and I think as gamers if anyone's upset about the game delay we need to start looking in the mirror and asking ourselves why do we play games because don't we want games to be complete and finish it's not like id Software is doing this to get more pre-orders it's not like they're doing this to upset people they're doing this because the game isn't ready there's a problem with it a fundamental issue that they're not gonna you know throw out there publicly because then it might make them look bad but there's a problem and they want to fix it and it's to the point that they're fixing it that the multiplayer mode one of the key multiplayer modes isn't even releasing at launch with the game and the switch version which was going to be day-in-date is now delayed even further because the main game that's being built first for PC Xbox and PlayStation isn't where it needs to be so how can the switch port be where it needs to be when the primary game isn't done so I honestly think that this is nothing but a positive yes I will say as a Nintendo switch owner it will be cool to see them maybe delay it a couple of months and then line up the release to be all the platforms at the same time but I also understand that the games already being delayed and if it's already done for PlayStation 4 Xbox and PC which are going to be the higher selling versions of the game you're not going to delay it for the switch so I can understand that move as well and as a switch owner day-in-date is awesome Mortal Kombat 11 day-in-date was amazing sold amazingly well on switch but I do think even a quality high quality late port can still find its audience on switch as we've seen you know with the Witcher 3 which recently came out which by the way I haven't actually played the Witcher 3 on switch yet myself for some reasons that many of you guys might already know about but I have seen other people play the Witcher 3 and oh my god does it not only look fantastic on switch and I can't wait to livestream it for you guys it is maybe the best port job of a third-party game done yet that's how amazing it is credit to the company that did I forget which company ported it and obviously CD Project Red for ensuring that the high quality standards they hold themselves through the hell the porting team too but boy panic buttons got some competition that being said I'm glad that this is happening panic button is by the way the company that's porting to me turn all to switch they were the ones that have ported Wolfenstein the new Colossus also Wolfenstein Youngblood and the original Doom the original Doom 2016 version on switch already so there are the go-to id software company for porting these games so I'm excited about the fact that it actually is delayed because it means we're going to get a better product instead of a buggy broken mess that we usually see rushed out of the AAA industry to meet deadlines and say hey don't worry we'll just patch it and fix it later I don't like the idea that you could just release a broken game say we're gonna patch it and fix it later I think that's what demos are for I think that's what betas are for I don't think that's what a final release should be I think more games need to release in the state Nintendo releases most of their games or their finished products day one I know there's some exceptions Splatoon's this franchise that they do these continual updates too where it's not really finished product until they're done that's just the way that that game works and there's some other games that are similar to that and I can argue games are sometimes lacking content Mario tennis aces amazing gameplay lacking content same is true with some other games on switch Kirby star allies as an example I really like the gameplay but it could use a bit more content but that's neither here nor there at least when the games come out they're working they're mostly bug-free if not entirely bug-free from Nintendo and that's what I want to see so Doom Eternal coming out later this year or I should say later next year I would probably expect summer sometime per switch doesn't bother me but hey if you do pre-order it on switch you will get doom 64 day one on March 20th when everyone else is getting doom 64 so you will get it then it was already announced for switch and it's just announced for additional platforms now I think that's mostly a positive thing and I think we need to start looking at game delays as a positive in this industry it needs to happen more often in my opinion we are all remember when Assassin's Creed was delayed for like a year you know because they were tired of the backlash and a broken unity and and other games were and what happened we ended up with two amazing Assassin's Creed games in a row and hey now we're not getting one this year why they want to take their time to get the next one right and I think that's the correct approach to AAA development so credit to Ubisoft as well for for realizing they got themselves stuck in a rut with those yearly releases that shouldn't probably never been a thing and credit to hopefully other companies as well I hope they take note from Nintendo from Ubisoft from id software I hope Activision give Call of Duty a break one year like it's okay to skip a year to make a higher quality product and the thing is Call of Duty's even set up to do such a thing now they got this blackout mode and this Battle Royale stuff you could literally just keep the game relevant with Battle Royale for an extra year with with free content updates or whatever you decide to do like Fortnite or or PUBG or something does and then hit us with a brand new game when it's actually ready heck delay two years if you need to you can still make all that money I know Activision you're used to getting that 20 millions in sales or whatever every single year I get it but come on I mean heck why is it Call of Duty mobile on switch for crying out loud like I've seen it it looks damn good pretty sure it can run on switch but more on that later because I actually have a video in the works on Switch pro maybe switch to I mean switch pro is kind of a made-up moniker it's not really being said by anyone officially but yeah I definitely have a video in the works for that a nice discussion video maybe an editorial style video on it to be honest there's a lot of information out there a lot of things I want to talk about with that but I want to guess for tuning into this video let me know what you think about this doom eternal delay does it bother you is it something that you're actually happy about like I am or are you happy that it's a delay but also not happy that the switch version gets an additional delay on top of that that's something that I hope doesn't happen too frequently where the switch version gets an additional delay but in this case it's hard to be disappointed with id software and the job that panic button has done in the past so they're gonna get the benefit of the doubt from me you guys let me know if they get the benefit of the doubt from you as well all right folks I'm Nathaniel Robeljans from Nintendo Prime if you enjoyed this video be sure to like it share it with your friends 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