[Update: Pete Hines, Bethesda Softworks' VP of PR and Marketing confirmed DOOM 4 isn't postponed, tweeting, "RE: DOOM 4 rumor, games are done when they are done and no title under development at id has been postponed--indefinitely or otherwise.]
id Software's next chapter in the DOOM series has been said to be "indefinitely postponed" due to a less than stellar launch of the recently released RAGE, an anonymous source close to publisher Bethesda Softworks told Kotaku.
id Software's next chapter in the DOOM series has been said to be "indefinitely postponed" due to a less than stellar launch of the recently released RAGE, an anonymous source close to publisher Bethesda Softworks told Kotaku.
RAGE's mixed reviews--low 80s on Metacritic--and technical issues surrounding it has portrayed "a serious lack of confidence in the project management at id" in the eyes of both Bethesda and its parent company Zenimax Media, and launched with a barrage of negative feedback across the PC, resulting in multiple post-launch patches.
DOOM 4 was announced quite a while ago, though was not talked about much during RAGE's development cycle. The last time we heard of DOOM 4 was back in August, when John Carmack revealed the game's single-player component was locked at 30 frames per-second.
Bear in mind, this all comes from the ambiguous "anonymous source" who claims to be close to Bethesda, though the reasoning behind DOOM 4's postponement is quite plausible.
