Ryuu96 said:
Yeah, I'm not ruling out stuff releasing in February-March and maybe April but I don't know how much they'll pack in those 3 months, in fairness they did have Avowed, South of Midnight and Oblivion Remastered in those 3 months for 2025 but Oblivion Remastered was kind of an out of the blue shadow-drop. Doom was May which they're going to avoid like the plague and they'll also avoid June. January can only be a shadow drop, so maybe that Kiln from Double Fine. Given GTA 6 is at the end of May, then April is probably safe but I do think it depends on the type of game, I can't see them releasing any really lengthy videogames or big GaaS at the end of April - into May even before GTA 6's release because the GaaS will have their vital legs cleaved off by GTA 6 and the lengthy games will be dropped like a bag of bricks, plus people may take that into account; "Well, I want to play Fable but there's no way I'd finish it before GTA 6 so I'll just wait for GTA 6" and for those buying, save $80, Lol. If I'm a publisher I'm probably going to put a month between me and GTA 6 in either direction for my big AAAs. But January (Shadow-Drop), February and March are perfectly safe Imo, and early April should be too, any later, like late April into May, I would only risk a smaller project but even then, the month leading up to GTA 6, ain't nobody going to be reporting on or caring about anything other than GTA 6. You will not be able to compete with the marketing and socials leading up to GTA 6, anything releasing in May even before GTA 6 will be drowned out.
It's not in order, Lol. It was mostly just the order of the trailers I watched on the Xbox Wire article, I did originally have it broken down a little but then I gave up when I couldn't decide where to place things, if it was in order though then Black Ops 7 would be at the bottom, Lol. |
I think we're going to see a ton of releases in the early part of the year. Possibly a record amount. I mean maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like if I was running a publisher, I wanna get my game out before GTA drops, cus that's just gonna swallow all the oxygen in the room. And it'll do it not once, but twice. First when the main game releases, and then again when they open up GTA Online 2.0 or whatever they call it.
I'm not trying to compete with the broader audience on time with that. If you get your game out ahead of it, even if it's a really big game and they have to take a break from it to go play GTA, at least you did your numbers and made your money. We all know the majority of game sales (that aren't on deep discounts down the road) are super frontloaded. I'd say anything up to like May 10th or so I'd be very happy to release something.
