'Animal Crossing: New Horizons' was pushed back to March 20, 2020 to avoid the dreaded 'crunch' practice.
LOS ANGELES: Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been delayed to March 20, 2020, but Nintendo says it had a good reason: to avoid crunch, the harmful but widespread software-industry practice of working extreme amounts of overtime near a project’s deadline.
Nintendo has a history of delaying videogames, including 2017’s Breath Of The Wild, which eventually launched to massive success and universal acclaim. In 1996, Shigeru Miyamoto, of Mario and Zelda fame, delayed the release of the N64 console by several months. A quote widely attributed to Miyamoto at the time is still in use today: "A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad."
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