Current Events > Why are game companies so shit at release dates

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Titanfall 2 released between Battlefield 1 (another EA IP) and Infinite Warfare

BlazBlue Central Fiction released in the same month as Infinite Warfare, Pokemon Sun/Moon and Final fucking Fantasy

Battleborn released weeks before Overwatch

Super Mario Odyssey, Wolfenstein 2, and Assassin's Creed Origins released on the SAME DAY

Why can't they just release these things whenever they're fucking ready and not when they're competing for someone's typically limited spending money

There are way too many gaps and dry spots in the year for this dumb shit to happen
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summer + winter releases = big money.
Releasing a game after a major competitor = low sales.

AvantgardeAClue posted...

BlazBlue Central Fiction released in the same month as Infinite Warfare, Pokemon Sun/Moon and Final fucking Fantasy

theres probably very little overlap here
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ManSpread posted...

AvantgardeAClue posted...

BlazBlue Central Fiction released in the same month as Infinite Warfare, Pokemon Sun/Moon and Final fucking Fantasy

theres probably very little overlap here

Weebs tend to buy Pokemon and FF and anime fighters so I'd imagine BB lost a lot of sales as a result
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Battleborn released weeks before Overwatch

lol
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On the anime fighter front, how incompetent do Aksys and P-Qube have to be to release the localized version of Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st] not just seven months after the JP release, but two weeks after the goddamn juggernaut that DBFZ will be. Talk about sending a game to die.
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DeathVelvien posted...

On the anime fighter front, how incompetent do Aksys and P-Qube have to be to release the localized version of Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st] not just seven months after the JP release, but two weeks after the goddamn juggernaut that DBFZ will be. Talk about sending a game to die.

yeah ASW is kinda shit on the marketing side of things in the US
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DeathVelvien posted...

On the anime fighter front, how incompetent do Aksys and P-Qube have to be to release the localized version of Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st] not just seven months after the JP release, but two weeks after the goddamn juggernaut that DBFZ will be. Talk about sending a game to die.

Japanese devs/publishers tend to be great at making games, but garbage at actual marketing.
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AvantgardeAClue posted...

Titanfall 2 released between Battlefield 1 (another EA IP) and Infinite Warfare

BlazBlue Central Fiction released in the same month as Infinite Warfare, Pokemon Sun/Moon and Final fucking Fantasy

Battleborn released weeks before Overwatch

Super Mario Odyssey, Wolfenstein 2, and Assassin's Creed Origins released on the SAME DAY

Why can't they just release these things whenever they're fucking ready and not when they're competing for someone's typically limited spending money

There are way too many gaps and dry spots in the year for this dumb shit to happen

I dont understand what your problem is.
Just buy the games you want when you have time and money. They dont disappear shortly after their release date.

The only thing that could be a problem is with your first example because the online player base gets split up between those games.
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Titanfall 2 was released at that time by EA deliberately to buy Respawn
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A5modeu5 posted...

AvantgardeAClue posted...

Titanfall 2 released between Battlefield 1 (another EA IP) and Infinite Warfare

BlazBlue Central Fiction released in the same month as Infinite Warfare, Pokemon Sun/Moon and Final fucking Fantasy

Battleborn released weeks before Overwatch

Super Mario Odyssey, Wolfenstein 2, and Assassin's Creed Origins released on the SAME DAY

Why can't they just release these things whenever they're fucking ready and not when they're competing for someone's typically limited spending money

There are way too many gaps and dry spots in the year for this dumb shit to happen

I dont understand what your problem is.
Just buy the games you want when you have time and money. They dont disappear shortly after their release date.

The only thing that could be a problem is with your first example because the online player base gets split up between those games.

Titanfall, BlazBlue, and Battleborn were all DOA as a result of poor release timing
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FluttershyPony posted...

summer + winter releases = big money.
Releasing a game after a major competitor = low sales.

This. Same with consoles, first to get the newest generation out will have a head start
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AvantgardeAClue posted...

BlazBlue Central Fiction released in the same month as Infinite Warfare,

Lmfao thomp
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I will tell you what is horseshit.

Dissidia, Monster hunter world, and Dragonball Fighterz all coming out on pretty much the same day next month.

None of them could have come out at the beginning of January? Really?

Skyscraper101 posted...

I will tell you what is horseshit.

Dissidia, Monster hunter world, and Dragonball Fighterz all coming out on pretty much the same day next month.

None of them could have come out at the beginning of January? Really?

Cannibalizing sales by forcing consumers to choose

A tactic that publishers refuse to learn that never works
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AvantgardeAClue posted...

Skyscraper101 posted...

I will tell you what is horseshit.

Dissidia, Monster hunter world, and Dragonball Fighterz all coming out on pretty much the same day next month.

None of them could have come out at the beginning of January? Really?

Cannibalizing sales by forcing consumers to choose

A tactic that publishers refuse to learn that never works

They pull the same crap with movies. You'll go 2-3 weeks with nothing new for a certain demographic, then BAM, back to back weekends with movies competing for the same audience. I agree, it makes no sense.
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Don't remind me about dissidia I can't even be sure I can afford it until February
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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/125267638459957248/392883622908002316/DRaKncWUEAUpX4w.png

And now the localizers have kind of managed to fuck up with the box art. Instead of using the art specifically made for the game, they've gone and gotten some random old art of it (one of the earliest bits of promo art, and not even very good art at that) that shows none of the newcomers and are running with that. They really don't give a shit about this game.
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