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The DeanBeat: Why I’m happy to see Watch Dogs stand alone among the big games of 2014

One by one, the big console games of 2014 are being postponed to 2015. This is the new way of building next-generation games. Announce a date. Build the game. Then figure out you were too optimistic and delay it until next year.

It seems that creating these titles is not as easy as the industry thought. We have been lucky enough to get Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs this week, only because it was originally scheduled for October 2013, and then it was delayed an extra seven months for polishing.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.