First question, and I only ask because it's such an obvious question: Is there a release date for this game yet, that the news outlets just don't know about?
Journey WILL be released this Spring, unless there is some apocalypse type thing that goes on. Another PSN hack would only delay the release, but wouldn't delay the development of the game. If something really bad happened, like someone burned down TGC's office and the entirety of Sony Santa Monica, then the game would be delayed, possibly indefinitely.
عجب!
Sometime back though, I saw that the estimated release time period was during December of last year. It was obvious that they would have liked to release it in time for Christmas with that kind of estimate, but as it's still not out yet, I figure that it was no where near completion.
On the main page, I see that all that is said is "Coming soon", but when I do a search on Google for "Journey release date" it pops back with "Best guess for Journey (2011 video game) Release date(s) is Spring 2012"
Checking what sources that Google used, I see that guess was made back in September, and here we are starting up with January. So I'm hoping there might be some more info that might be shared.
Info such as, are we talking "Early Spring", "Late Spring", or "That was a goal set back in September, and because we want to make sure we release a finished product don't get your heart set on Spring"
I can't say when this spring the game will be released, but I will say it will (likely) be sooner, rather than later. (I can't say anything official about a release date.) The game was supposed to be finished some time in 2011 (there was never anything more specific than 2011), and was delayed into 2011 to finish the very last part of the game
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I'm perfectly fine with any of those answers, but I am also curious if perhaps a public demo will happen prior to the release date? Also if no prior release public demo is going to be made available, will it be likely that a demo will be available at release? I'm personally not that interested in the answer to that last question, as once the game is released, I'm getting it but I figure someone who has the same questions as I have right now, might hope to get that answer.
Usually, at this point, game developers would add on a lot of people to work only for 3-6 months, so the game would end up being finished quicker, but TGC doesn't want to do that and is looking for a more sustainable form of video game development. That's why there have been 12-13 people working on Journey at one time, instead of 5-25 people.