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Sadly work is keeping me from reading this entire thread (which looks to be interesting!), but I voted for "maybe" as I think the recency/latency affect will come in to play here.

Really good games that release later in the year will compare favorably to great games released earlier in the year as people will be done with the old, and enamored with the new. I'm not saying it doesn't stand a chance though.