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So what's the big game for the holidays season this year?
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but damnit 2010 seems to a year to look forward to. Team Ico's creation, GoW, Bayonetta, Borderlands and there will be anouncement of a full adventure game featuring a hefty battlesystem which consist of catching, training and battling monsters.. in 3d! It'll happen, you'll see.. you'll all see!!
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Much like 30 is the new 20, I predict fiscal 4th quarter will be the new fiscal 3rd quarter.
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Geez my pockets are shrinking and is not even fall yet (>_
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This is/was my next anticipated game. I like shooters and all, they're fun, but I like my single player action/adventure/hack & slash more, and in my eyes Kamiya fulfills that to a tee.
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Two things:
Firstly, Alpha Protocol, Brutal Legend, Dragon Age, Borderlands, and Saboteur make plenty of non-sequels finding launch between October 1st and December 31st. It's one less than before with Bayonetta's push to 2010, but it's not a season devoid of new intellectual property.
Secondly, the 'Holiday' season sees the largest sales of any given time of year. There's a reason for that, and it's not that 'the good games' come out then. Yes, games can sell any time of year, but when there's a release model that a publisher can see which maximizes profits, it's silly to ignore it.
These delays are along the same model, maximizing profit. The publishers felt that there wasn't much chance of competing reasonably with titles that will take advantage of the 'Holiday' season.
As for the movie industry, the same thing happens. Remember when Harry Potter was delayed to a part of the year that will maximize their profit? That's exactly what happens when deciding when to, and when not to, try to launch late in the year.
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...and sadly, aside from probably Brutal Legend, which is riding a wave of good PR, most of games are going to get screwed just like all the new IPs got screwed last year.
and yes, the holidays are the biggest sales time of the year, for obvious reasons, but what's silly is putting a game like Bayonetta, a game that, to be quite honest I haven't heard of until now, against games like Call Of Duty, Halo, Splinter Cell and the like. And so it's better to take those games and move them to other times of the year like Sega is doing with this one.
which is basically what you said, which is what I said at the start, so I don't know why you're arguing with me.
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Now, unexpectedly, I join in mourning the loss of yet another title to the graveyard known as 2010, and wait impatiently for the year that was supposed to be this year.
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Or just keep whining about everything being a "leftist" conspiracy and calling people socialists or reverse racists. I'm sure that will work this next time.
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Actually, you've done nothing but prove theirs.
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Well, they did respond aggressively, stereotyped him, and told him to GTFO.
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Obviously not. Well, you do now. Brush up on your history.
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"You must only look at Kotaku on the internet then." Rather than where? Didn't realise you could look at Kotaku in the newspaper.
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Here's something funny, reality tends to lean left. Reality revolves around understanding and science, instead ideology and bibles.
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(Psssst..Well known fact of reality - not all republicans thump bibles!)
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Extreme right wingers, like the Objectivists, for example, are similar to extreme left wingers in their disdain for religion, but their methods of control of the population is the same. Except Objectivists propose extreme levels of selfishness and separation from any concept of community and extreme Communists propose extreme self-sacrifice at your own expense for the betterment of the country/"motherland". Both are retarded.
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No, but many also think we should privatize everything and that will solve all our problems. Like CA and Enron weren't proof of that mantra not working. Imagine if our water ever gets privatized.
Or that we should give only rich people money and that will magically trickle down on all of us.
Or that a woman should have right to an abortion even if cases of rape, incest, or life-threatening circumstances.
Or that pollution in the name of profit is a good thing.
Or that we should leave people who are poor (sometimes for generations) completely without assistance to help improve their lives, because there's no chance they might turn to crime in desperation.
Or, I could go on...
Yeah, the left-wing ain't perfect for sure, but they get more right than they do wrong.
Who gave us G.W. Bush again?
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Most importantly, why is making fun of her "leftist"? She's an impossibly stupid, frighteningly dishonest clown of a person with little to no understanding of basic English. The sooner people such as yourself realize this, the sooner you can start saving your party from the lunatic base.
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I don't remember saying anything about Savage, but great way to generalize. Technically we are both right and both wrong as Fascism is opposed to both ends of the spectrum and sits somewhere off by itself.
I do agree that both extremes are retarded though.
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We'll still see some other good titles coming out, unless all of them pull out. Then that wont work.
Seriously guys, get one game, play the hell out of it, and by the time you finish, that other game you wanted to get on launch would have already been available at a discounted price at online fronts.
This is how you deal with backlogs, boys and girls.