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darkenergy on 28 May 2015
Slade6alpha said:
Skullwaker said:
This is not what I was expecting when I clicked on this thread.

Thread quality has dropped the past month, or so. I kinda saw this coming. :/ 


I guess being two months behind in weekly numbers is causing people to be completely insane. I am immune to this.



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super6646 on 28 May 2015
TheObserver said:
mZuzek said:
I'm not sure what they should do, but keeping in mind how both Uncharted and Zelda are delayed, Microsoft should have this holiday in the bag unless they screw up really bad.


How will they have it in the bag? with Sony having marketing deals and ealy DLC for all the big holiday releases like CoD, battlefront, Assassin's Creed. Just Tomb raider won't be enough to keep the XB1 high on the buyer's list. All Sony would need to do to totally dominate is have just one real exclusive as XB1 will have only a timed one.

Who said COD and AC is going to be under a sony content deal? Also halo, fable, and Forza don't count? Lol.



crackred on 29 May 2015

nice joke thread :)


yes they should pull halo 5 back to december 23rd to make a good Holiday lineup



ArchangelMadzz on 29 May 2015
super6646 said:
TheObserver said:


How will they have it in the bag? with Sony having marketing deals and ealy DLC for all the big holiday releases like CoD, battlefront, Assassin's Creed. Just Tomb raider won't be enough to keep the XB1 high on the buyer's list. All Sony would need to do to totally dominate is have just one real exclusive as XB1 will have only a timed one.

Who said COD and AC is going to be under a sony content deal? Also halo, fable, and Forza don't count? Lol.


It's not been confirmed but evidence points to AC and COD having a Sony deal. He's saying because 'technically' the holiday season is November and December the only thing they have is a timed exclusive. Which is godly levels of spin.



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teigaga on 29 May 2015

This route actually makes more sense. November is always a fest of huge third party titles. 1st party releasing their games in slightly more bare sept/oct and december months probably brings more visibility to the exclusives and as others have mentioned, Halo isn't suddenly going to stop having an effect on potential buyers a few weeks after its release. They've got every month covered with a big release and probably have 1 more title to announce for the fall, their line up is flawless. If only if they could be equally as strong during Q1/2



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bananaking21 on 29 May 2015
TheObserver said:
starcraft said:
I'm sorry?

Halo, Forza, Tomb Raider and Fable.

They have four franchises ranging from massive to big launching exclusively in the lead up too and through the holiday season.

Thats before you look at smaller exclusives and the myriad multiplatforms.

I feel like this is a joke thread...


Halo and Forza aren't releasing during the Holiday period which is November-December.

Forgot about Fable but it's just a f2p title it'll go unnoticed like Project Spark did last year. So yeah as far as Holiday 2015 goes we have just one timed exclusive.

holiday launched are usually the games launched between sep- dec. while technicially sep and oct arent the holiday season, they are in the months leading up to the holidays and are considered part of the holiday releases. rarely do we see games released in December, because they would have missed out on the big months before it, and of course, black friday. thats why games usually release before black friday. 



Mr.Playstation on 29 May 2015



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SvennoJ on 29 May 2015

Forza and Halo releasing early sounds good to me.
Put them in a holiday bundle and it will be very hard to resist.



Turkish on 29 May 2015
TheObserver said:

It seems only XB1 exclusive for the Holidays is Tomb Raider, which is timed itself.

This is probably the worst Holiday for console in history.

Should MS push these games back to make for a better Holiday lineup?

What are you talking about. Both Forza and Halo are holiday titles. Just because they came out a month earlier doesn't mean they will stop selling in the holidays. The holiday season for games actually start in september, thats when there's an increase of game releases. Only a select few dare come out in november due to fear of the big titles.



PotentHerbs on 29 May 2015

I think MS holiday is well balanced. Why would they launch Halo 5 in September with MGS5 or in November with CoD & Star Wars Battlefront? Fable is free to play so it won't make a difference when it launches and Forza is not going to do much for hardware anyway.