Bayonetta, Bioshock 2, Mafia 2, Singularity and MAG have all slipped from 2009 release dates into 2010 release time frames it appears there are two reasons behind this. The first is the fact you will always get games that get pushed back due to problems or the over crowded holiday season were most of the years biggest games hit the shelves. The second reason is that sales are down a third in 2009 at this present time so publishers like Take2 have said this is the main problem for their games and are pushing them back in the hope the world recovers from recession in 2010 and also there will be less competition with other games as most of them are releasing in the holiday season.
Despite the delays to some games there are still plenty due this Autumn. Uncharted 2, Assassins Creed 2, Brutal Legend, Ratchet And Clank: A Crack In Time, Borderlands, The Saboteur, Gran Turismo 5, Blur, Dirt 2, Need For Speed: Shift, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, The Beatles: Rock Band, Lego Rock Band, Guitar Hero 5, Dragon Age: Origins, Alpha Protocol, Avatar and of course Modern Warfare 2 plus many many more. Additionally two of last year’s big hitters, Fallout 3 and LittleBigPlanet, are getting re-releases as Game Of The Year editions.
Hopefully this will mean from 2010 we will see more games releasing not just around the christmas period, games like killzone 2, MGS4 and Resident evil 5 have proven that you dont always need to release your games around the christmas period for them to be succesful. I would like to see more games released around the summer time to seeing how the kids are off from school here in the UK for a six week summer holiday, most of the big movies for kids release around this time to like Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince so why not release some of the big games in the summer to?
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