I understand that Fall and Winter are the big times to release games because of Christmas and everything, but I never understood why developers don't take advantage of the summer time? If you look at this year, there has been very little quality games during June-Aug besides maybe 3-4 retailer games and a handful of arcade games. You would think releasing a big name game such as say Gears, Uncharted, or Assassin's Creed would benefit hugely from such a dry season of games. It seems all the best movies release during the summer, why don't games?       

i know what you mean i had a ton of cash to burn but no games for the summer = (

Well I think its more development Cycle orientated. You start here and end here.. which happens to always be in winter and spring.

another possibility is that there is no big holiday in the summer that has people purchasing electronics.

So that a game can get the word of mouth.
people need to hear about the game before buying it, and that takes time, so releasing it early , then getting commericals rolling, people will know about it , and they will want to buy it in the holiday season.

They think that Summer is when people go out to get some sun and do those things like get laid and what not...how wrong they are.

People spend loads of money on holidays in summer so dont have any money for games

People are on holidays during summer, so they use their time to do other things and have less money.

This summer I spent 22 days in the Canary Islands. I don't play games on my holidays.

Probably because they know summer is the time to get out and have some fun; of course they can allways take their handhelds but theres only two in the market, excluding phones. so they have nothing worth while to release.

The Fall and Winter is the best time to release games since people are going shopping and back to work. So after a busy weekend, they know its time to break out the system and relax cause winter is comming; possibly snow days and even more sick days due to the coldness.

Summer is not time to outside and have fun! You should be playing more games!

However, I don't want games in the summer as it is my time to catch up on games. I have got through about 4 games already, and have a few more to get through in the next few weeks

Big games need alot of sales fast to recover their development budget and some games end up drifting into obscurity after a few months (LA noire) so they just don't want to risk it. I'm wondering why exactly more budget games aren't released during the summer though to avoid the competition.