Capcom stretched out its release schedule on Tuesday, delaying the launch of several key titles into the second quarter of 2010.
Lost Planet 2, Super Street Fighter IV (above) and Monster Hunter Tri will now be released in April 2010 or later.
Irony rating: five stars. Capcom's primary reason for delaying the games was to "avoid competing with the major titles that other companies plan to release" in the first three months of 2010. But of course, the only reason that so many games are being released in those months is because all those companies wanted to avoid competing with each other over Christmas 2009.
Moreover, Capcom's stated rationale for the delays matches word-for-word with the one it used in 2009 when it delayed its sci-fi shooter Dark Void. It's still scheduled for a January 19 release, but Capcom said Tuesday it now expects it to sell only 600,000 units, not the 2 million it originally forecast.
With a ridiculously crowded winter of Christmas exiles ahead, somebody was bound to blink. Nintendo pushed back Sin & Punishment. Now Capcom. Who's next?
[h/t: NeoGAF]
