Hey remember when we were super excited about the sales wars between Halo 5, Uncharted 4 and Zelda U all releasing in the same holiday period which is even more christmas for us Vgcharters who are obviously interested in sales figures.

Due to recent delays it looks as though it couldn't have been more correct. As all 3 of those games are releasing in completely different years instead of the same holiday season.

Halo 5 2015
Uncharted 4 2016
Zelda 2017

Do you think something like that will actually happen one day where we see Huge MS IP vs Huge Sony IP vs Huge Nintendo IP of the magnitude of these 3 in the same holiday season?

no, that is not the case. reality is Sony have become incompetent with releasing their games on time. Uncharted 4, Driveclub, Ratchet, The Order, The Tomorrow Children, PR VR (i know its not a game) and bloodborne were all delayed. 

I'm sure it will happen again. Delaying such big titles is not uncommon.

Lol Mario Kart is far bigger than Zelda.

Between end of this year and sometime next year both Gran Turismo and God of war will have a release, as will Zelda. Halo 6 could potentially come out in holiday 2017 so there's room for a possible battle there, if Zelda isn't out by Spring, or if Nintendo releases a big Mario game later in the year

Looks like the only one that didn't get delayed out of 2015 and launched on time is Halo, which just so happened to disappoint a lot of fans. Just an observation, nothing more. :)

Wait, what thread? o.o

Pretty sure Sony intends to do this.

High profile games released in this period have a greater chance of success than in Q4. Less competition, no need to worry about aggressive bundling, sales will be strong through the Summer drought and there is no threat of ''bargain bucket'' post holidays since not much is released in Sep/Oct.

It worked for TLOU and probably would have worked for Uncharted 3 too. In fact I guarantee Sony regretted not doing this which explains why Uncharted 3 was so heavily bundled.

Basically Q4 is overated. Any company invested in exclusives with half a brain (aka nobody from MS post 2010 era) would know this and stick by this. I'm not sure why Sony don't just spell it out though. Perhaps they don't want other companies following suite. 

Infamous was never announced as an "at launch" title.  The first time they announced a release date it was for first quarter 2014

Also it's smart to release big exclusives in otherwise dead areas. It's a hell of a lot easier to promote a game and raise a baseline in March or June than it is in November. Also those games are still around during the holiday and they cost less so the potential for families to get the system with them is there (or they can just bundle them). Never got why people want their exclusives all during the holidays. I hope after the success of Arkham, TLoU (both initially and remastered), and some other Summer releases shows developers that the whole 12 months are viable. Just because it's sunny outside doesn't mean we spend every minute in the sun and I spend just as much time gaming anytime if there's games coming out.