No Doom 3 This Year?

Ant writes "According to an article at Blue's News: 'Though id Software basically invented the idea of using "when it's done" as a release date, and thus did not specify a release date when DOOM 3 was announced, many have been assuming that the game would be available for this year's holiday season. Now a report on HomeLAN Fed cites Activision's 2003 release calendar and quarterly financial conference call... [saying that] Activision admits that this matter is entirely in id's hands, but that they are not expecting the game this year, and have it "penciled" on their calendars for fiscal Q4 (Jan-March) 2004.' Additionally, Quake IV is now due in Fiscal 2005 (which begins April 2004)."

Comments

I'm waiting for HL 2...

[Wolfier]

To hell with Doom 3, unless id shows us a more impressive demo.

Scared of what?

[voxel]

John is scared HL2 will outsell Doom 3 and he won't be able to buy 1,000 more Ferarri's next year? instead only 800 more Ferarri's with the spare change profit?

- Voxel

Re:Doom 3 verus Half Life 2

[2TecTom]

Hardly true, Half-Life never attained any status in the serious gaming community. Like whoever heard of HL-Con? Q3A is the standard against which all else is measured. Thanks largely to John Carmack, a real engineer.

Re:As expected... I hope.

[scot4875]

Let the mass market think what they want -- I'll buy it if it's new and interesting, and I could care less if someone else passes it over for something more familiar.

Of course, that wouldn't be good for Id, which is the real problem: game producers can't innovate too much, because people don't really want innovation. They want to play an updated version of that fun game they played last time.

--Jeremy