Conviction Delayed To Make It “Awesome”

It turns out that we were right when we guessed as to why Splinter Cell: Conviction was delayed yesterday. The delay was decided on because the game needs “a bit more polish,” which is what Ubisoft told Eurogamer today as to the cause of the delay. “The game looks brilliant, but we want it to be awesome,” a spokesperson added.

Rumor had it that the delay was to push the game later into the year to get out of the nearly full release schedule of other highly anticipated triple-A titles this Q1. But that doesn’t appear to be the case. But it would have made sense, because titles like Mass Effect 2 (Jan 26th), MAG (Jan 26th), Bioshock 2 (Feb 9th), Heavy Rain (Feb 23rd), Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (March 2nd), Final Fantasy XIII (March 9th), God of War III (March), and Red Dead Redemption (April 27th) are just a few that are coming out in the first part of the year.