Will Bloodstained meet its March 2017 release window?

Hey friends. I figure it may be too early to really talk about the launch of the game, seeing as the visual direction of the game is being worked on, there was something I've been wondering since that last update is not only has the game undergone far more substantial progress than I thought, but the fact the Kickstarter was awfully specific in regards to release windows. Most Kickstarters state a target year, and Bloodstained is the only one that comes to mind that was so specific to name a month. Even most games from traditional publishers never get that specific at announcements, unless it's nearly finished. Then there's the fact current console trends make all of that interesting for some of the versions planned. 

The thing running through my mind is the fact that 2016 may be the last major year for the Playstation Vita, Nintendo 3DS, and Nintendo Wii U. Vita has been anemic internationally, so it doing even decently is almost miraculous but that ship seems to eventually be sailing away, the Wii U is surely going to be pushed aside before this year is even over for the Nintendo NX and the fact devkits are out in the wold, and then there's the consistent rumors that the NX is a hybrid console/handheld device, potentially merging Nintendo's dying handheld ecosystem (outside of Japan) and dying console ecosystem (everywhere) into an all-in-one global platform. This has me wondering that if Bloodstained fails to meet its March 2017 target, the versions on the three aforementioned platforms will be effected in negative ways if the game is on what would be considered dead or even last-generation platforms. Many companies have handled long development times and delays by putting their games on the newer systems, a notable one being Persona 5. I don't see Bloodstained being able to do that, as it was funded for specific platforms. It kind of has to make its promises from backers and fans first, markets be damned.

Furthermore, this gets even more interesting to wonder about in regards how IGA and his team will decide how to launch the game, for I don't recall any statement regarding what the game will launch with. To name a few things planned for the title, there's the main game, a boss rush, a prequel game, a classic mode, a boss revenge mode, and a roguelike mode. Will we see everything announced as backer accomplishments launch day and date with the game, or will it be the base game at launch, and substantial features coming in later updates? Major releases have allowed a game to launch with massive features of interest coming later -- Grand Theft Auto V is especially famous for this, as its online Heists, marketed before the game even launched, came out a year and a half after the game did -- but limiting it to Kickstarter projects, the closest that follows this example was Shovel Knight. Recently in games, there's been a PR disaster regarding the newest Hitman title, for not only failing to miss it's specific launch date of December 08th of 2015 date, but now a failure to launch with what they said it would; the game went from eight starting missions to four, and where the game was getting most of its content in the first three months, it's now over the entire year. It makes me wonder how IGA will exactly handle this project, as I hoped to have shown, there are many ways to skin a chicken, or in this case, how and what to release regarding a game.

I figure I would ask the rest of you guys what you think may happen regarding the game and the specificity of March 2017 being a target to genuinely hit. Personally, I don't know. IGA can pump out games super quickly, as Portrait of Ruin was finished in less than a year, but that's based on an established game with established assets. Everything here has to be made from scratch, the castle is planned to be the biggest it's been in from him, then there's all of the additional things on top of that. The only thing I can think of that can easily be done before that release window is making all of the monsters: the Ars Goetia has about 72 monsters, which is not exactly a particularly large roster of monsters to work with, and that's assuming they choose to use all of them. Perhaps getting the base game done and having it on most of the platforms could meet that release period, but I find it a near-impossible thing to assume all of the versions with all of the announcements will be released prior to the end of 2017, and thus feel if IGA wants every goal met before one gets to play the full game, a delay is all but promised.

But what say you all?