Quote Originally Posted by gahoo View Post
Do everyone a favor and please let the community know when you finish considering fall and winter 2013 as viable options. At that point let us know what your conclusion is, and hopefully, provide more evidence for the conclusion than the absence of a release date.
The "evidence" is self-evident, so I don't need to supply it for you, but considering you seem deeply offended by my speculation I'll touch on the subject a little bit more.

For example, the beta is still yet to take place and beta's are usually at least six months before a games launch. In addition to that fact, Yoshida has stated on several occasions that they will be taking every bit of time needed to make the game perfect before it launches, no matter how long it takes. The observation you so easily dismissed that no release date has been set yet is also a pretty important fact to take into consideration regardless of your opinion. Release dates are important for the sales at the launch of a game, and the marketing team knows that. If devs had it their way all the time games would never have a release date announce until the day before they're shipped; unfortunately however successful marketing doesn't work that way.

Just considering the above mentioned observations, one can reasonably suspect that the launch date may end up being much later than generally expected. However, I'm not saying that I'm convinced that's the case. I made it quite clear that it was just speculation, so the're no reason for you to get so offended. I do think it is a realistic option that it may be as late as next fall or winter. I'm not going to say I think it's more likely that it will be that late, but I'm not going to rule it out as an option either.