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I am by no means agitated. As I said before, I am happy to wait. My problem stems from STILL not knowing when exactly I'm waiting for. I am glad they're aiming for a same day release though. I think you have misinterpreted my problem as being that I am impatient and want it right now. My problem is I thought I'd have a fixed date to look forward to now, but it is still fairly up in the air. Happy waiting a bit longer after all this time.

It's just that I'm in the same boat and, although I see where you're coming from, I guess I wasn't really sharing your feelings on the matter

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Yeah I have to agree, it’s nice knowing that hey, one version of the game is definitely coming on 22nd/23rd July, but that’s not the version I’m buying and I still have no idea when that’ll be other than a ballpark guess.

I'm not even sure whether we're talking about PS3 or PC here, but they better not pull that Xbox 360 "We're not going to port it to PC so you'd better buy a copy now, wink wink" shit.

They're talking about PS3/Vita. But they've been very open that PC/Mac/Linux will come out after Sony's timed exclusivity.

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I'm not even sure whether we're talking about PS3 or PC here, but they better not pull that Xbox 360 "We're not going to port it to PC so you'd better buy a copy now, wink wink" shit.

JAW won't do that. They need to sell NnT as much as possible so whatever happens, the versions that they promised will eventually come.

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I have to wonder... when development of Abe HD started the PS4 wasn't even out yet and the game was still planned for release on Xbox and PS3 but NOT PS4. Now almost a year later the PS4 has not only been added to the list but has been promoted to the flagship and exclusive release platform and we're being told that the PS3 release might even be released later.

I'm sorry but I'm calling bullshit on this. This is obviously part of a publishing deal with Sony which may or may not involve a big bag of money. I can't blame JAW as a small studio to accept a big bag of money and free promotion for their current flagship game. But the irony in combination with Lorne's praise of being an independent developer is staggering.

He was so proud of not being some big publisher's bitch and here they are again, so far up Sony's ass that daylight no longer reaches them. :happy:

Sorry, just seen this end of the thread.

Just to let you know, Sony aren't publishing the game at all. Oddworld are.

We're concentrating on the PS4 release as that's our current lead console platform and the one that best represents what we're trying to do with New 'n' Tasty. Our ambitions (and achievements) in terms of visuals, AI and gameplay over the last year meant that our initial launch focus - given our limited resources as an indie developer - should be the PS4.

Our (30-day) timed exclusivity with Sony regarding a launch window is no secret - that's the reason the game is hitting PlayStation first - but we've not given any dates for the PS3 and PS Vita version simply because we don't know when we'll have them at the level we (and you guys would) want them. Like with the PS4 release date - we didn't want to push a date at this point in the process that wasn't realistic.

Obviously, in an ideal world we'd have all PlayStation platforms out at the same time, but that's simply not possible.

Could we have emphasised that it'd only be the PS4 release date we'd have verified at this point? Sure, and so apologies if the fact that we don't yet have dates for any other platforms is less than ideal. Rest assured the guys are working all the hours they can on the game and as soon as we've got an update on the PS3 and Vita releases we'll let you know (as well as any other platforms, of course).

Anyway, sorry for missing this thread - E3 took the majority of my time last week.

Oh, E3 took up your time? Piss poor excuse, Alex. I think you'll find OWF is much more important! D:

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Oh, E3 took up your time? Piss poor excuse, Alex. I think you'll find OWF is much more important! D:

There's certainly less jet lag...

Is it just me or does Alex have a regular posting rank as his custom title?

Sneaky.

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Sneaky.

http://i.imgur.com/tG9DqlDl.jpg

Hold L1 for custom title.

Oooh a new screenshot :D Many thanks jaw_alex

Anyway while we are talking about the announcement. Is there any reasoning behind making the announcement around the same time as the Sony conference?

I mean there was kind of a build up to it (announcing the announcement) and then we end up with simply a tweet in the beginning of E3 frenzy.

I can't help but feel something did not go exactly as planned here.

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Anyway while we are talking about the announcement. Is there any reasoning behind making the announcement around the same time as the Sony conference?

I mean there was kind of a build up to it (announcing the announcement) and then we end up with simply a tweet in the beginning of E3 frenzy.

We said we'd give a release date before E3 started, and we waited until we were reasonably confident that we could make that intended date. We'd had the 22nd of July in mind internally for a while.

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I can't help but feel something did not go exactly as planned here.

Not at all. I think it was a couple of hours before Sony's conference, if my hazy memory serves me. The tweet (and slightly erroneous Facebook post) was actually a result of us not having full posting capabilities at the time.

That makes sense, many thanks for clearing that up. :)

Here's a question: on PC, if one is to plug in an Xbox controller say, will the PC control tutorial textures in the game change to represent the controller? or is that too difficult a change within the game?

Also, what is your favorite type of cake?

Thanks for the 'sneaky' screen shot too :P

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Yeah, do you have / are you planning to have a separate set of icons for gamepads in PC version?

Is that screenshot really new? i feel like i've seen it a thousand times :P