fillet said:
I think it's a bit short sighted to quote Q1 time frame for some of those games, nothing personal, it's just if you go by past experience, half will be delayed past Q1. People always seem to make this mistake of looking forward to a massive number of games that have been announced for a period but then inevitably lots of them get pushed back usually to balance the books for the next year.
Q1 -> Q2 is the worst for it because fiscal year ends in April so it's easy to push releases to the Summer, and they nearly always get pushed to september or october for sales volume reasons.
It's happened time and time again over the past 5 years.
Q1 isn't a good time to release games, Q2 is even worse matched or maybe slightly worse by first half of Q3. It's hardly realistic to expect those heavy hitters to all drop in Q1 for the PS3. I'm not saying they definitely won't but surely a die hard believer can at least entertain this point of view, a lot of money has gone into them.
If I'm smoking crack, feel free to enlighten me - I'm not trying to downplay anything here. It would be great if those exclusives listed do drop in Q1 don't get me wrong.
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Aren't God of War and Gears of War launching in Q1? Anyway, Sony has exclusives coming in at other quarters as well. I can't speak for Microsoft since thats the last big game they've got in their tank.
