Fatal Frame IV Ships With Crippling Bugs

A lot of impatient folk imported Fatal Frame IV when it came out in Japan this week, rather than wait around for someone to announce a US ship date, and they may be regretting it. The game shipped to stores with some crippling bugs unfixed. Most of the bugs are documented at the NeoGAF forum, the most severe causing the game to freeze and lock up. These sort of errors tend to be fixed before North American releases, but Tecmo has apparently released some extremely buggy DLC content for Ninja Gaiden 2 in the US.

[Zerodin]

Much like the people who imported, publishers have no patience!

Dev: Well QC will take an extra month, but the game won't have bugs!
Publisher: An extra MONTH?! I want my money NOW!
Dev: -sigh-
Publisher: MONEY! NOW! GIMME!

[FantasyStar]

Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft's 1st Party games rarely have bugs, but glitches will always be exploited.

[PS360WII]

Ouch Tecmo what are you doing to this title :( Just cuz you can patch games later doesn't mean it should be standard practice

[LossTheEarthbreaker]

It's unfortunate that this trend seems to be making its way into console titles, also.

But I think console game reviewers tend to factor large noticeable bugs to review scores.

[Panipal2005]

How desperately disappointing.

I'd wait for reviews of any US version just to be sure that these issues have been excised.

[rhood022]

It doesn't matter. More than a few Wii games have shipped with "Crippling Bugs" but a) they still sell and b) reviewers tend not to care.

[LossTheEarthbreaker]

I think you meant, "b) The typical Wii user doesn't care" or is just too new to video games to realize that bugs can be tested and avoided.

[ape007]

why tecmo didn't release a next gen ps3\360 fatal frame,insted of making it feel outdated

[qface64]

because anything that has copyright 2008 nintendo won't come out for other systems

[LossTheEarthbreaker]

Because it hasn't sold well in years.

[juuken]

Well, that sucks.

[Zerodin]

Yeah first party offerings are usually pretty solid.
But they need to be, that's the flagship of your console! So it has to run well.

[Shadow Man]

And I would of love seen this game in a next gen console. I mean why does it have to be exclusive to the wii.

[LossTheEarthbreaker]

Because no one else wanted it.

[LossTheEarthbreaker]

But I pretty much assumed this would be rushed rubbish as soon as it was announced for Wii.

No surprises here really, except from the people who expected it to be a good game based no trailers and previous releases and who are desperately seeking reasons to hold on to their Wii's until next year.