https://www.acriticalhit.com/solved-miyamoto-quote-late-game-bad-forever

Turns the quote of "A late game is a game that arrives late, a rushed game remains bad forever." is not from Miyamoto. It's from a trans game dev from 1982/1992 named Siobhan Beeman.

While tweeting about my latest attempts, a mutual pointed out to me that the reason I’ve been having trouble finding her is that she’s since transitioned and changed her name to Siobhan Beeman. This is such a not-uncommon occurrence in the gaming industry that, honestly, anytime I can’t find someone and there’s no obituary, I assume they’ve simply transitioned.

Thanks to this new lead, I was able to get in contact with Beeman and ask about that GDC panel, and she confirmed: “To the best of my recollection I came up with that phrasing. The sentiment certainly existed in the industry, especially at places like Origin.” Beeman was the project director at Origin from 1989 to 1992.

"A delayed game is eventually good until a bad update then it's bad forever" or something

The quote is:

A game is only late until it ships, but it's bad forever.

And it likely is not from Miyamoto, but instead seems to be fairly common sentiment from various western game devs going back to the mid to late 90s.

https://www.acriticalhit.com/solved-miyamoto-quote-late-game-bad-forever

There does not appear to be 100% certainty as to who coined it or phrases it first...

...but this not not change the underlying meaning of the quote and its similar permutations:

A game that sucks on release date because it got rushed out the door is always remembered as a game that sucks, whereas a game that is delayed is only remembered as delayed until it comes out, fully developed.

This seems obvious, but somehow it evidently is not, as the history of video games is full of stuff that was rushed out the door before it was fully baked, and these games very seldom get updated and finished to the point they defeat that stigma.

The fact that games can be more easily patched now has not actually changed this, again, excepting very rare instances. The stigma of a broken, half cooked release is still nearly impossible to overcome.

“Late is for a little while, suck is forever” - Gabe Newell

"No! This isn't how you're supposed to use this quote!"

"He's so cool!"

a delayed game is ksp2 until it is ksp2

"Every Mario has its Bros."

Bro delayed Starfox Zero 💀