| Dodece said: I am astounded that nobody in this thread highlighted the most singular flaw of this logic, and that would be too soon. Releasing a new edition of this game in less then a year well probably less then nine months would establish a highly dangerous precedent. You do not want consumers deferring purchases thinking that a better, cheaper, and larger version is nine months away. You do not want to sideline consumers. This would be a bad precedent in good times, and right now given the market it would be damned stupid. You can't be scaring consumers into doubting the merits of buying your products. You know the saying is true once burned twice shy. You only need to shaft early adopters once, and frankly Sony paid for doing that with the consoles price. They really cannot even let people get the notion that this is their standard operating procedure. This is a very bad idea. |
The precedent had already been set. The COD4 GOTY Edition came out at the beginning of April 08 for the 360, not even 5 months after the original version was released. The GOTY edition came loaded with the Variety Map Pack which contained 4 additional maps. The game got a 65% sales boost the week it was re-released and that was in the middle of a relatively dead season.
I know it's not ideal to re-release a game in such a short time span but given the circumstances that I listed in my original post, I think it is a good idea if the numbers work out. I have no idea how costly it could be to put it out but I don't see how some of you are jumping to the conclusion that it would cost a fortune. All the content is already complete, they would just need to slap it on the disc and start pumping those bad boys out. Look at the LBP launch fiasco last year with the Islamic song. In less than a week they were able to change the content on the retail disc and print out hundreds of thousands of new copies to ship to retail.
