Is Disaster: Day of Crisis gone forever?

by David Hinkle { May 18th 2008 at 2:00PM }

Sad news, if you're willing to buy into this rumor. According to QJ, a supposed Japanese press release was fired off by Nintendo where they explain that Disaster: Day of Crisis has been put on indefinite hold. We're taking this with a big grain of salt, to be honest, because we don't want the rumor to be true and because QJ doesn't even source anything on the rumor.

Without a credible source (or any source, for that matter), we're hard-pressed to buy into all of this. However, it's a good discussion topic, as many are still waiting for Reggie to deliver on his promise of delivering a big Wii title at E3 and hoped this would be it. Until we hear more word on this, we're just going to sit in the corner, with our hands over our ears, singing to ourself as we refuse to buy into this.

Tags: disaster, disaster-day-of-crisis, e3, e3-2008, e308, japan, monolith-soft, reggie, reggie-fils-aime

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

PY @ May 18th 2008 2:27PM

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

hvnlysoldr @ May 18th 2008 2:46PM

LA LA LA LA LA ALA LALA LA
I"M NOT LISTENING!

LeChuck @ May 18th 2008 2:53PM

I've already been thinking for a while that it was cancelled. Can't remember the last time I heard anything about it.

phantomexe @ May 18th 2008 3:00PM

There been so much good news then bam a kick to the sack.I could sware a few days ago i read it was being delayed so they could polish the game up.I mean come on its release date was july for jap gamers why would they stop a game that done and ready for release.I'm going call bs on this.

Jhongerkong @ May 18th 2008 3:03PM

At least I can look forward to Project H.A.M.M.E.R...

oh wait...

Co @ May 19th 2008 12:31AM

lol.. nice! Yet sad.

EvilEmperor @ May 18th 2008 3:04PM

It is true, I am actually surprised that no one talk about this since it was announced on Nintendo Japan website on May 16 (i.e. 2 days ago).

Source: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/rdzj/info.html

SWAT Kats are back! @ May 18th 2008 3:19PM

freetranslation.com translation for the Nihongo-impaired

You support the merchandise of our company around a/the day and thank you very much.

And, I did with that asks to cause a/the launching day postponed, to extend a/the development period, about Wii exclusive use soft "DISASTER DAY OF CRISIS (disaster デイオブ crisis)" that was planning launching on Thu, July 3, 2008 and send to a/the customer with a better quality.
Furthermore, I would appreciate it very much if you understand anyway, because I ask to cause it guided the details that settles regarding the launching day after a/the change.

Becoming with that causes inconvenience to, all of you of a/the customer and also distribution person concerned I apologize deeply.

HellsHammer @ May 18th 2008 4:32PM

"I did with that asks to cause a/the launching day postponed, to extend a/the development period, about Wii exclusive use soft "DISASTER DAY OF CRISIS (disaster デイオブ crisis)" that was planning launching on Thu, July 3, 2008 and send to a/the customer with a better quality."

If you translate the translation into structured English, it roughly reads:

"I asked to postpone the release date for Disaster to extend the development of the game to deliver a better quality title to the customer."

Can anyone explain to me why this means 'canceled'?!?
Even Brawl was pushed back twice, I still have hope.

phantomexe @ May 18th 2008 3:06PM

i think that you may be thinking about project hammer but gamepro was talking about this game not long ago.

phantomexe @ May 18th 2008 3:08PM

o i see damn; ; sad face

phantomexe @ May 18th 2008 3:12PM

btw something funny project hammer go to n4g.com scroll down the wii news you will see a arcle about hammer lol is it back?

SWAT Kats are back! @ May 18th 2008 3:16PM

legend has it that one of the Nintendo Software Technology guys was talking to a game design class at DigiPen, and claimed that NST was still working on Project HAMMER

Mr.ESC @ May 18th 2008 3:38PM

I hope they are still working on Proyect H.A.M.M.E.R.That game looked so awesome back in the E3.

phantomexe @ May 18th 2008 3:21PM

i don't get man why they would toss days of cris out so near it release date in japan.it don't seem right

phantomexe @ May 18th 2008 3:26PM

why pour all that money and time into it,then just drop it at the last second.

Hamster @ May 18th 2008 3:32PM

Maybe they've changed it into Disaster Training: How To Survive in a Crisis...... :-(

Seriously though, I hope this isn't true (and I don't think it is). Disaster is one of my most anticipated games.

ALH @ May 19th 2008 5:33AM

oh hell no. Disaster was one of the games which actually made me look forward to getting a wii, even if my enthusiasm has wained now, i think having something which would be a game im interested to convert into a game i wouldnt touch with a 50 ft pole would make me lose all hope for anything decent coming out for the wii which isnt a rehash or a casual minigame collection :|

John B. @ May 18th 2008 5:39PM

I don't think it's completely canceled, I've looked at a couple of different sources now that just say it was postponed so they could work on the game for a bit longer.

Still, though - I'd rather it be Kid Icarus at E3 than this.

ChrisCanberg @ May 18th 2008 6:23PM

They said back in September that the game was still very much so in development and "was looking very good".

Don't buy this. This isn't true. It can't be.

SWAT Kats are back! @ May 18th 2008 6:53PM

I think it isn't, though. From the link that EvilEmperor provided, we can safely assume that the game has merely been pushed back to a date they have not disclosed yet

Fact of the matter is, though, it could be delayed to any date. Brawl's first definite date was set back two months, but it was a while before we knew what the revised date was.

TheOverlord#2 can has Mario Karts?(MK:2578-3517-9859) @ May 18th 2008 8:23PM

This game is probably delayed...Brawl was delayed on Jan. 15 or 16 when the then release date was Feb. 10.

Also, this won't be Reggie's big announcement. They already announced this (& Project H.A.M.M.E.R.) in a E3 video when they were showing random Wii software, so it must be another game.