Sunday, April 26, 2009
Year round gaming
It appears that fall is no longer the only time great games will come out this year. June will bring us games such as prototype, the wii motion plus add on, and batman arkham asylum. This new trend is great news for someone such as myself who has lots of time to play games over the summer but is it really a good thing? Yes the titles will be on their own and will have less competition which is the route EA should have taken with Mirrors Edge and Dead space so is this a new trend or just testing the waters. Will May and June become the time to release new game titles and October November be a time to release sequels to already proven games? This would be a great idea for me. Honestly I still haven't played some games from Q4 last year and am definetly not done playing a good number of them. I don't know why i bought so many at once but it was possibly for the multiplayer so that the game didn't get stale with others by the time I started playing. Anyway, back off of that tangent...Why shouldn't game companies use the early summer to bring out their newes game series and ideas. With E3 the first week of june it would be a perfect time to release. Gain hype and give a hands on experience of the completed game a few weeks before release. This strategy would be great marketing and most likely boost sales because teenagers will have summer jobs and pre-teens will be babysitting and mowing lawns. It is a well known fact teens get most of their spending money in the summer so why not give them something to spend it on before it's gone. The summer looks great for gaming and all i can say is I wish i could take my tv outside and tan while gaming...without glare.
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