Well, this sucks ass. Today Ubisoft announced that South Park: The Stick of Truth, one of the more memorable and certainly most laugh-inducing demos of E3 2013, will not make its December release date. Instead, the game has been delayed all the way to March 4, 2014 for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
Ubisoft originally picked up South Park: The Stick of Truth along with their purchase of THQ Montreal back in last January’s bankruptcy sale. The intent was to finish up the mostly completed game and have it ready for release in December to take advantage of holiday shopping. That plan is no more.
Here’s what Ubisoft had to say about the delay in a blog update this morning.
“Why the new delay? Well, when Ubisoft picked up the game, we thought: Easy. We’ll put some marketing muscle behind Stick of Truth, toss some additional development resources at it, then take it to the finish line with Matt Stone and Trey Parker. The game’s almost done, anyways – so what more could we do?
Apparently, quite a bit more. ‘Within three weeks after acquiring the game, we sadly realized we had to turn this thing upside down if we hoped to deliver the experience everybody wanted,’ says Ubisoft North America’s president Laurent Detoc. ‘It’s been such a major overhaul to get to the point where we are that we couldn’t let it go, even if that meant missing December.’
South Park’s creators wholeheartedly agree. ‘We always wanted the game to feel like you’re actually in an episode of South Park,’ say Matt Stone and Trey Parker. ‘Getting the game up to the crappy standards of the show has been a real challenge and we’re excited to say it’s taken way longer than we thought it would.'”
As a consolation prize, Ubisoft has released over seven minutes of continuous gameplay footage set within the Inn of the Giggling Donkey where the evil Bard is said to be hiding out.
Source: Ubisoft
