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Given one of the major plot points in the game is that basically a fictional equivalent of the Russian army invades another country I can understand why this is happening. It's also not the first time this has happened either, the original GBA version of Advance Wars 1 was also delayed due to 9/11 over two decades ago.

(sorry Fawfulthelego but I felt this was better for a dedicated thread than a bump on an unrelated one)

Nintendo: We should postpone the release of our game about war in a fictional universe because there's a real war happening right now.

Some Chinese bootlegger in 2002:

>Russia
>Third world problems.

Just release the fucking game already Nintendo. I don't care if people say "It's insensitive." to release the game.

I guess look at it from the "businessman" perspective. You start advertising a modern-ish war game set for release a month from now when a real and highly publicized war is going on, it'd be a PR nightmare (plus as I pointed out it really does not help a major plot point in AW1 is an alternate universe version of the Russian military invades a neighboring nation, way too eerily similar to what's happening now).

Also from a businessman perspective: it's probably best they delayed it anyway because IMO it was weird they were releasing it only two weeks after Kirby (which is still on track for March 25 as I imagine a whimsical platformer is far more the kind of escapism Nintendo would rather release right now, even if the setting looks post-apocalyptic, though not in the "destroyed by war" sense, more in the "the inhabitants mysteriously left one day" sense).

Bet Ukrainians would enjoy seeing the invasion of their country categorized as "third world problems" by the KYM gaming community

If the delay at least gives them time to polish up the game then that's alright anyways.

Let me guess: It's a delay coupled with feature freeze: The second worst kind of delay.