Of course there are always exceptions, but I don’t count on news like this to mean that this project will be the exception.

Metroid Prime and Halo 2 both had excessive crunch and both turned out great, obviously. In Metroid Prime’s case, a management change seemed to fix it in the long term. In Halo’s case, Bungie just embraced the suck I guess, since they wtill wanted to make Halo 3.

Regardless, these were exceptions to the rule, and I would never expect a project to be an exception, personally.