[abetaha]

13 years of development since the last release. Hope the last mile is not excruciating bug fixes.

[braebo]

Wasn’t it just a couple years ago now where they were in early dev stages which leaked thanks to some kid hacking their systems via slack or something?

[gjsman-1000]

Nah; we'll find out they reset development four times or something as scope expanded and hardware became more powerful; and so it's nothing but bugs and still rushed to the deadline. To me this screams scope creep, development hell, and constant redoing of existing work; and good luck not turning into design-by-committee when that happens.

(Edit: As the comment below points out, this happened to Windows Vista. There are plenty more examples though - Metroid Prime 4 was even announced by Nintendo, before being completely scrapped and rebuilt for another 6 years, finally coming out this year.)

[jayd16]

Well it's certain like going to be 3 bug fix years after 10 dev years...

But making prototypes and throwing them away is expected. It's not like white knuckling 13 year old designs is a smart idea either.

The reality is almost certainly that GTA Online took a lot of the focus for many years.

[rzzzt]

Duke Nukem Forever!

[FirmwareBurner]

That was the story of Windows Vista.

[SirFatty]

Add Fallout 76 to the list..