Do they only bother releasing block buster titles in the last quarter of the year? Should they be more like Sony and release whatever, whenever they're finished all year round? For as long as I can  remember Sony's had at least 1 big game during the Spring (Q1/Q2) season:

2009: Killzone 2

2010: Heavy Rain/God of War III

2011: LBP2/inFamous 2/Killzone 3/Motorstorm Apocalypse

2012: Journey/Twisted Metal/Starhawk

2013: The Last of Us/God of War Ascension

2014: inFamous Second Son

2015: The Order 1886/Bloodborne/???

2016: Uncharted 4/Morpheus launch/Street Fighter 5

This doesn't factor in 3rd party or niche exclusives either, just Sony's output.

I wish MS and Nintendo start doing this soon, I want a big new game to play every 6 months. Nintendo's on the right way with MK and Splatoon both being May releases, Microsoft line up in this season however is traditionally just abysmal, save for Titanfall. They could really use some exclusives in the first half of the year, looking at Amazon charts the console is just sliding further away. You know it's bad when you start bundling indies to be the system seller, no matter how good Ori was, it never was destined to be a system seller. 1.5 years later the XBO realy should not have these droughts.

Didn't Nintendo release DKC:TP early last year?

Nintendo are fine.

For MS, the first three quarters of this year are very weak, although they have a good holiday lineup.

2016 seems more spread out for X1 in terms of exclusives, they already have Quantum Break in the spring, and likely Scalebound or Crackdown 3.

Nintendo almost always has a big-ish May/June release. Last year it was Mario Kart 8, this year it's Splatoon.

Nintendo last year have released DK TP and MK8... ._.

Couldn't I flip that and say sony only cares for the first few months of the year. The Order-Feb, Bloobourne-March........Uncharted 4-Q1/Q2 2016. That could be well over 1 year gap.

Ninten had MP10 in the spring, and Splatoon in May, and last yeah, there was DK:TF in Feb and MK8 in May. So they had something. And it's not exactly like they can have a game ready for a specific time. I figure they release games when they're finished, whenever that is. Game releases can't easily work like that.

Nintendo released their biggest franchise in may last year....
Smash was just so they have a blockbuster for the holidays and toad for better sales potential.
We are already getting 3 games first half in US and 4 in EU from Nintendo..

Nintendo not, but Microsoft does only care for the holidays.

And mario kart 8, and they got bayonetta 2 in october, xenoblade x in april (japan)...

Silly thread.