you really want you r head to spin add in all the wii games and you see my problem

yeah we should do a petition against MS so they make less good games or less games all together.... we can't keep going like that, it's the world economy they are playing with here lol :P

Where is this list for big games on IGN?

I wish we could complain about too many games over in the Sony section, well we have some gems so no complaining.

Its very rare a company will launch a game after Black Friday in the US.

Reasoning is that the biggest shopping day is Black Friday, and after that, it would be rather hard to market, and sell games in the maelstrom that is Christmas shopping.

So for maximum yields, the best time to launch a game is November, because you get Black Friday, and December which are the best times to shop.

I agree.  I think it would be more benficial for a game to be out for the entirety of December, instead of part of it.

 I think there was only 1 crappy game released in the month of december last year.

I've bolded which games I am for sure getting, and the rest of those are games that I am considering.

Topic starter- you release games in the holiday season because more people are in stores at the time. Your best chances of selling a game is when people are physically near them right. Well there ya go. Thus it's only smart to release games at that time.

However the risk you run is lots and lots of competition with other games on that same system.  That's the main risk.  Thus a lot of games like to release over the other periods in the idea of path of least resistance.  But you run the risk of the game not having enough hype or brand appeal causing the game to flop.

yeah. I always wondered why they don't release games in the summer..... oh well. And holy crap @ the 10-14 - 10-21 week. that's like 13 games released in one week and 6 in one day... that's insane.