This week, Polytron finally announced that their long-anticipated title Fez will be coming to Xbox Live Arcade in "Early 2010". Since it seems like we've been waiting for this game for as long as we can remember, we decided to crunch the numbers on it and a few other titles, to see whose hype started the earliest and lasted longest. "Hype" begins the first time it was mentioned by name on Kotaku, because, well, we don't really get frenzied about what's happening on indie game blogs. They call it hype for a reason.
RED FACTION: GUERRILLA
First Hype: 2/20/2008
Released: 6/2/2009
Total Time Elapsed: 1 year 3 months 13 days
BRAID
First Hype: 3/6/2007
Released: 8/6/2008
Total Time Elapsed: 1 year 5 months
SUPER MARIO GALAXY
First Hype: 5/9/2006
Released: 11/12/2007
Total Time Elapsed: 1 year 6 months 3 days
GRAND THEFT AUTO IV
First Hype: 5/9/2006
Released: 4/29/2008
Total Time Elapsed: 1 year 11 months 20 days
CASTLE CRASHERS
First Hype: 7/20/2006
Released: 8/27/2008
Time Elapsed: 2 years 1 month 7 days
FEZ
First Hype: 12/4/2007
Released: "Early 2010"
Estimated Time Elapsed: 2 years 1 month 28 days
GEARS OF WAR 2
First Hype: 6/20/2006
Released: 11/7/2008
Total Time Elapsed: 2 years 4 months 18 days
HALO 3
First Hype: 11/15/2004
Released: 9/25/2007
Total Time Elapsed: 2 years 10 months 10 days
METAL GEAR SOLID 4
First Hype: 3/3/2005
Released: 6/12/2008
Total Time Elapsed: 3 years 3 months 9 days
KILLZONE 2
First Hype: 5/16/2005
Released: 2/27/2009
Total Time Elapsed: 3 years 9 months 11 days
FINAL FANTASY XIII
First Hype: 3/30/2006
Released: "Spring 2010"
Estimated Time Elapsed: 4 years 21 days
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