Greetings Axeheads! We come, once again, to the end of a week full of insightful discussion and superb punditry. We’re going to close out the conversation on game delays with a Battle Cry that puts some pragmatic perspective on the high-profile delays of 2009. Were the rash of delays from late last year a good thing? Could we have afforded all those games anyway? Is the game industry harming themselves irrevocably by leaning on the delay crutch too often, rather than simply being smarter with their scheduling? AxedWheelie makes the case…

AxedWheelie Says:

My Battlecry goes to the EPIC Holiday Game Delays of 2009, While all those highly anticipated titles like Bioshock 2, and Starcraft 2, Bayonetta, etc were delayed it is my opinion that these delays were good for these games. Thou it irked the gaming community greatly.

The delays have ensured that 2010 we gamers wouldn’t have a dry Q1, and Q2 like the game drought of 09. As for how it will affect the game sales, It is my belief that it wouldn’t affect the over all sales from fans of the series, where the sales will be lacking is grabbing those who are still on the fence.

New I.p’s like Beyonetta would suffer sales also, but I think that is because of it’s over hyped sexually driven ads and not from the delay of it’s shipment date.

Delays in the game industry are a double edge sword it helps but at the same time it hurts us all. we all know the pro’s and con’s of this terrible game.

Pro’s:
It gives the gaming community time to save up enough money to buy all the games that they want to play.

Gives the developers breathing space between releases.

Con’s:
Lost of sales, initial interest, lost of spontaneous sales “due to media hype”

TOO DAMN MANY! Dev’s and Publishers are delaying their games. (I can forgive a few delays through out the year because it happens and there’s nothing you can do in certain cases, but when everyone is doing it like it’s the latest hollywood trend, then it hurts our community over all.)

Well that’s my rant on todays delay.

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Though its an unintended consequence of the many games that were delayed from Q4 2009 to Q1 2010, I think AxedWheelie‘s point is not less profound. If all those games had come out when originally slated we’d be in the middle of the biggest dry spell in a decade. Certainly, last year we were all very aware of the slump in releases leading up to the ‘Rocktober’ blitzkrieg. The delays, while they weren’t necessarily intended to, helped prevent a similar situation from occurring again this year. And certainly the titles that are coming out now have benefited from some extra polishing time.

Sometimes its important to keep things in perspective and today’s Member BattleCry made some great points to that end. Thanks for sharing your thoughts AxedWheelie! And let us know your thoughts in the comments section below and if you have something else entirely that you’d like to sound off on, then feel free to do that over on this week’s topics starter post where you can SUBMIT A NEW TOPIC:

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