Which is exactly why the summer is not a bad time to launch a game, you have hardly any competition.

Why do you think no game company launches in the summer. It's for that exact reason. People, no matter what the parents say, are outside, partying, on the boat, Dirtbike, etc. Or this is the shit I'm doing. So I generally won't pick up a  game in summer.

Give me a break?  What happened to you?    Always with an attitude anymore, and youve really played a part in the console war more than you use to as well

@Everybody - This goes for Sony, MSFT, and Nintendo.  There is more to be announced for next year.  We still dont know what many first party studios are working on like Guerilla Games, LXP, Platform Next, Media Molecule, Twisted Pixel, Rare, etc   Same goes to third parties.  You guys really need to stop downplaying everything for each other.  Let people get excited.  Im sure it will be a good year for GAMES

Because companies actually believe the same thing you do, even though there have been several examples of games releasing in the summer or late spring and still performing extremely well, TLOU and MGS 4 for example. The holidays on the other hand are always jam packed with stuff and every year there are several games just drowning in the masses, when those games would be way better suited for an empty summer release.

Movies have summer blockbusters every year, so why not games as well?

Those are already established games. September is a perfect launch date. Just before all the blockbusters and also after the summer.

You can't bring your girl to a video game to get to second base can you?

Those are already established games. September is a perfect launch date. Just before all the blockbusters and also after the summer.

You can't bring your girl to a video game to get to second base can you?

Looking at what the X1 has to offer next year, I'm hardly convinced that Microsoft is "going in hard". Yes, there is likely more games in store and MS just haven't revealed them yet. However, Sony has already done that since Gamescom and announced even more games in Pre-TGS.

There are two major problems with the X1's 2015 exclusive lineup, so far: lack of diversity and consolidation of release dates to holiday season. Phil Spencer is right that you have to bring your A game into holiday season, but you also have to bring it during the first 8 months. It is because of this that the PS4 widened the sales gap this year. Halo 5 is undeniably huge and will sell more than Uncharted 4. However, even a huge game like Halo 5 cannot cancel out the deficit from January to August. It is important to sell consistently well all year around.

The lack of diversity is also concerning. Fable Legends, Scalebound, Phantum Dust, Halo 5, and Quantum Break, they all fall under the shooter and action categories. Great for gamers whose favorite genres are action and shooters, but bad for those who have other tastes. While the western market is primarily fans of these two genres, there are western gamers who also like platformers, western and Japanese RPGs, hack n' slash, survival/horror, and sandbox. Looking at the PS4's 2015 lineup, you see Uncharted 4, Bloodborne, Wild, The Order: 1886, Rime, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, The Tomorrow Children, Until Dawn, Disgaea 5, Dragon Quest Heroes, Ys, God Eater 2, Persona 5, MLB 15: The Show, and Let it Die. Shadow of the Beast, N++, and Deep Down are also in the mix though they don't have general release dates yet. And nevermind the several timed exclusives the PS4 will be getting, too, like The Witness, Hellblade, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Abzu, and No Man's Sky, and the obligatory remasters like the Uncharted Trilogy Remastered Edition and Beyond: Two Souls Director's Cut. Will all these games sell like gangbusters? No, but the important takeaway here is that they appeal to a very wide demographic as opposed to a narrow one.

Your forgetting Xbox exclusives like Screamride, Below, Cuphead, Cobalt, class 4, FRU, Nero, Raiden 5, Smite, and more.

Not to mention some timed exclusives like superhot, goat simulator, Inside, and more.

Bottom line, Xbox will be fine.