Killzone 3 vs Halo Reach

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Miguel_Zorro said:

Some people on this site are so annoying.  Why would you pick something so stupid to argue about?  Here you go...

1) "Games Afraid to compete with the Modern Warfare Release"

http://www.ranker.com/list/games-afraid-to-compete-with-the-modern-warfare-release/pt_tesla

2) "Capcom Moves Key Releases out of Early 2010"

http://gamerblips.dailyradar.com/story/capcom-moves-key-releases-out-of-early-2010/

"It's a chain reaction, basically: After a number of publishers delayed their games to early 2010 to avoid the behemoth that was Modern Warfare 2 , it made early 2010 suddenly look like a behemoth itself -- and at least one developer is already getting out of the way of that freight train, too."

3) Here's another one...

http://topnews.us/content/29179-capcom-postpones-launch-titles-avoid-competition-modern-warfare-2

"Many other video-game makers have now taken the same step. Releases of much awaited games like Bioshock 2 from Take-Two Interactive and Splinter Cell: Conviction from Ubisoft have also been pushed back until after Christmas, and into the coming year, to avoid competition with Activision's title."

It's a fact.  A significant number of games have had their release dates moved to avoid Call of Duty and other big releases in the fall... and that's only going to continue.

A more reasonable explanation?

How about this: Bioshock 2 and Splinter Cell: Conviction were delayed again so perhaps they weren't ready enough? The fact that something is cited for a delay doesn't always indicate its the whole story. I would suggest that the true reason for the delay was that they didn't want to pick up the end of the recession with game sales down overall and many of these games could have used some extra time in the oven. I doubt that if the recession never happened that many of these games would have been delayed.

You don't clear out games just because of a single heavy seller en masse as the sole reason. The flight of some ought to have been enough incentive for the rest to stay. There were 90M PS360 titles sold in the 2 months prior to christmas which was down a fairly reasonable margin on the year before. I would suggest that its not just that Call of Duty 6 released, it was that they couldn't expect to sell a reasonable number of units between them. Call of Duty 6 is just an easy to cite reason to give to the press / stockholers.