Topic: Why June will kick Sony's ass (speculation)

[Kairon]

Hmm, you're right Ian. The DS would've sold regardless, lol. The Rev has a few more obstacles than that. Of course, I still protest against the idea of a "strong launch." Everything sells out at launch and I believe that you only truly need a marquee title at one or two months after launch as long as you have decent titles alreasdy out. Neither Halo or SSMB were launch titles, for example. I believe that a console's launch is minor in the scheme of things to maintaining a consistent momentum and supply of exciting games.

Of course, Earlier I was not suggesting that the Rev launch with a poor line-up. I was just wondering why they needed so long to make the line-up in the first place.

Now as to the "surprise" launch, there's no point in doing it without games and without hardware. A good surprise launch is when you're actually ready to launch at an earlier date. That's the real surprise. It surprises nobody if you launch 6 months early, and it looks like you really did launch 6 months too early.

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[Ian Sane]

"Neither Halo or SSMB were launch titles, for example."

Halo was a launch title.

[BlkPaladin]

Smash Brother Melee also was released in the launch window so it could be deemed a launch title. Nintendo usually spreads it titles out so no Nintendo title gets lost, though this may happen with the Revolution because I fear there may be too many titles within the launch window.

[JonLeung]

Normally I'd think a surprise launch would be stupid, but considering that many casual gamers don't know of a console/game/any product until AFTER it comes out, it really wouldn't make THAT much of a difference assuming the games could be ready.  And maybe a marketing blitz at least a month beforehand; I don't think casual gamers care about a product a year away.  

[Requiem of Darcness]

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Originally posted by: wandering

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The extra couple of months would allow 3rd parties to get their launch titles ready.

How would Japanese third parties be any readier for a June launch?

It wouldn't but the Revolution would sell well the first few months in Japan anyway. After rereading it, I can see how my initial post was unclear. The extra months would allow third parties to have titles ready for the US and Euro launches of the Revolution. A early launch here would be pointless without a good variety of top notch titles.  

[Requiem]

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[animecyberrat]

in response to Saturn there a couple points that got left out, first of all, Sega made a  limited early launch, only select stores were allowed to participate, and that made certain other stores mad and caused them not to carry Saturn products at all.


Saturn also looked bad in comparison to ps because it was a 100 dollars cheaper than Saturn, we all know that rev will be a lot more than 100 dollars cheaper than ps3.


I can honestly see them releasing early as long as they have at least two or three big name games that are complete and fully ready, because I expect a lot of people will get the rev with the new controller in mind and the virtual console now that its looking even better.


More and more people will take it seriously once they see that its going to have such a huge back catalog of games available to chose from in addition to the new rev games, also keep in mind that a lot of N64 games got over looked in their day because ps1 was so much more popular and some of their games got drowned out by sonys stuff. Those N64 games might be enough to hold a lot of people over for a while also.

Also I agree that if the rev is basically a supped up GC than there’s NO excuse for not having games ALREADY done right now.  Nintendo and the top 3rd party devs could easily have a decent line up ready by June or July. I think Midway, Capcom, Nintendo, Sega, and Namco could all have one or two games ready by then, plus EA and Ubi soft could have a hand full each ready. Also don’t underestimate EA, If they make a MLB game ready for at that time right in the middle of baseball season there will be a huge opportunity for Nintendo to sell the concept of the controller.

Dream cast had a hard time overcoming the lack of EA sports games and if REV has a good lineup of regular 3rd party games and EA stuff there’s a good chance it will sell better.



I think June or July realistically is not only possible but the smartest move they could make.


I will settle for August also but latter than that will take away from the big hit that it will have on Sony.

Edited for spelling and added stuff

[animecyberrat]

I forgot what I was going to add.