Take-Two Lives Up to Its Name

• Report this Comment On July 14, 2009, at 9:18 PM, MichiganJFrog wrote:

  I find it funny that this site lists its content as "spin free" when the spin of this article is obviously that of an obviously ignorant person.

  You act like pushing back games is a bad thing. Any developer can just rush garbage out, but it takes a company with some balls to really keep things back, regardless of what pin head investors (who know barely anything about the game industry, to the point where they pay $100 bucks an hour to talk to Gamestop managers about gaming trends) might think. Also, the fall quarter tends to be overrun with titles and many of them end up choking under the weight of the very breadth of games available. So any delay to the earlier part of the year is seen as a god send from gamers that want to enjoy it all, but just don't have the money to, especially in this economy.

  Like Shigeru Miyamoto always says, a good game is only delayed until it comes out, when a bad game is bad forever. Games right now are tanking even with a certain level of polish, so you have to figure that a company doesn't want to A: release too many high profile games in a quarter and B: release a damn thing that isn't as good as it can be.

  I remember the year when Ubisoft released Prince of Persia, Beyond Good and Evil, XIII and Rainbow Six 3. Beyond Good and Evil and XIII got lost in the flood and tanked. I bought BG&E that spring... for 10 dollars. PoP didn't sell as well as they wanted initially. And that was in a year where the Economy wasn't tanking.

  You also ignore the fact that Take Two is shipping quite a bit this year. Right now Borderlands is scheduled for a fall release. Also with the yearly baseball games (MLB 2K and the surprise Bigs 2) and the yearly basketball games, they are keeping on point. Then you have Rockstar which shipped the best rated DS title ever that has moved at least 160K in the first 2 months at retail. You also have the Lost and Damned and the upcoming Ballad of Gay Tony which will also be bundled on a disc as well. On top of that Chinatown wars is releasing for the PSP along with Beaterator. All in all it is a pretty full schedule if you ask me.

  You sound like a person that doesn't know jack about the game industry that you so choose to write about. Many companies are moving titles from the end of the year into the early months of 2010 and it's not because of failure to do anything, it is because of strategic releases and giving games the time to shine. Other companies aren't even being so ambitious to announce dates for the fall and are just skipping to next year already (as seen by a large amount of E3s heavy hitters).

  Pessimism isn't the only way to sound intelligent on the internet.

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