I definitely agree for some games like Boom Blox, No More Heroes, Zack and Wiki, and any other quality third-party offerings which don't already have an established name is that they get lost amid a bunch of sub-par games on the shelf. Without advertising or some kind of name recognition, people just aren't going to flock to these games even if they do receive good reviews.
New IP's seem to have it a little better on the PS3/360, although the risk for failure can be much higher since HD game development costs are considerably higher. Within the next year or two budgets may be a little more under control when these studios can reuse or simply revise some of the tech they have already built.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
