Japanese developer Platinum Games has apologized for the US/European delay on upcoming madcap brawler Anarchy Reigns after publisher Sega announced a 2013 release window yesterday.
The title was pushed back to next year in the US and Europe after previously being given a TBC release date. Sega claims to have been “re-evaluating” the title after a disappointing year financially.
Platinum’s top dog Atsushi Inaba announced via in a flurry of Tweets that the team had no idea as to when the game would be released, having heard nothing from Sega.
“First of all, we are done with all international versions of Anarchy Reigns,” he said. “The delay is not due to further development on the game.
“Also, even though the release dates will be different, the content of both the Japanese and Western versions will be 100 per cent the same.
“Today’s Q1 2013 release news was the first we’d heard of it. Even if we wanted to, we can’t comment as we’re (still) in the dark officially.
“There’s some concern that this will push back the Japanese release date. It will not. The game will be released in Japan on 5th July, 2012.
“Finally, I want to sincerely apologise to all the fans worldwide for all the confusion this situation has caused.
“Even though we are the game’s developers, we can only do so much about this…
“However, we hope you can continue to support Anarchy Reigns and look forward to playing it with us in the future. Thank you.”
There were previously worries amongst speculators that the title had been lost in Sega’s rethinking of the year.
