OXM Says Prey Demo on Sunday, July 2nd
Microsoft has dropped the announcement that the rescheduled Prey demo will be arriving on Xbox Live Marketplace this Sunday, 2nd July.
The demo, which was supposed to available for download nearly a fortnight ago, was delayed due to being still “in testing” at Microsoft, according to 3DR President George Broussard. But he believed the delay “could be as long as a few days.â€Â
A few days has turned into a two week patience-stretcher for Xbox 360 gamers eager to play the Sci-Fi FPS, which follows Native American Mechanic Tommy in a search and rescue attempt aboard an Alien Spaceship after he and his loved ones are abducted from their Reservation. It’s understood that the demo will be released on Marketplace along with a Dashboard Theme and Gamer Picture pack, though prices for both of these are still to be announced.
Sadly, I would not actually count on a Sunday release day at this point.
UPDATE: Major Nelson’s response to this story is this:
Let me say this: When was the last time we released content on a Sunday? Also, I have not seen any announcement that a MS official has made about the demo coming out on Sunday. Trust me…I asked *everyone* in PR.
June 30th, 2006 at 8:55 am
SUNDAY? Really. SUNDAY? Major Nelson has said before to not expect content on a Friday because most people are gone by then but they’re going to have a demo ready on a Sunday? Two days before the 4th of July? Really? Well if it is available on 7/2 it will almost make up for the delay in the first place. Too bad the game only runs at 30 FPS…
June 30th, 2006 at 9:21 am
Yeah, almost all of the game was made on pre-final dev kits, that’s why. I’m going to go out and pre-order the Collector’s Edition of Prey today.
June 30th, 2006 at 9:28 am
I hope it comes out this sunday, but I have bad feeling that it won’t
June 30th, 2006 at 11:39 am
As much as I would love to see it this weekend, I am not going to get my hopes up on it comming Sunday.