Release date for RE4, Killer 7

[A Black Falcon]

You start out disagreeing and then who knows what the hell you say afterwards. You make no sense!

That was calling you a moron because you didn't understand me, not because you were disagreeing... :)

The rest of that post fits in perfectly with the ideas I expand in my previous post.

When only two or three of their games sell well during those three months then you know it's obviously not working for them. And since when did Nintendo have a drastically worse third-party lineup? They had all of the big third party games! Prince of Persia, BG&E, Soul Calibur, etc. Aside from SC2 there really weren't any huge third-party sellers last holiday season. Can can you imagine what would have happened if Wind Waker came out in November instead of March? It would have made Nintendo's smaller games sell even worse.

Huh? You're saying Nintendo got most of the big games? We both know that's not true! And it's getting worse, not better, in the future... I don't know specifics because I focus on Nintendo, but I know I've seen more than enough games not on Cube to know that they are getting a lot more. As I said, especially from American developers. Like, say, Interplay... we didn't get BGDA2 or FOBOS... or some sports games... or Grand Theft Auto... etc...

You are right however that if Zelda had been in fall it would have cut even more into other game sales. That of course is why third parties all abandon Nintendo, because its own games by far sell best... there is of course no "solution" to that. Nintendo will always make lots of great games for its own platforms. The question then is timing... they need some key ones for the christmas season, but yeah, they probably could afford to spread it out a bit more. You don't need to release so many of your top games all at once... they could at least try it some more (with enough advertising of course! Any maybe for franchises that could survive on their own...) and see if it works... the schedule this time of year is hardly bursting with games that keep them from having a release window. :)