Fifty said:
This makes no sense. This season is so weak in terms of releases, and they want to move it to the fall?! Are they crazy? There must be a reason behind this.
September is generally the time when games sales pick up after the summer low spell. However, it's not entirely clear how much of this is a catch-22 situation. Do games sales pick up because more games are released during these periods, or do games get released because game sales pick up? And with the summer, do games sales fall because no games are released or are no games released because sales have fallen. I suspect it's a bit of both, with each feeding into the other, until you end up with everyone trying to crowd there games into specific times of year (mid-Feb to early April and September to December).
Of course as people have already said, there are competing games at that time, and I think something that is slowly starting to happen, with this polarisations of times of high release volumes and low release volumes is that many smaller games are being squeezed out.
However some publisher seem to cling to the logic that because these are the high sales times, that you can throw a game out and it'll do alright on its own. All I can say is, Eidos better have plans to advertise this one heavily.
