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no notable games in december Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 14:46:41 cd11d1 No.14079462

Not a single big game around the holidays.

What gives ?

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 15:10:19 2c11d1 No.14079515

i got okami hd this month

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 15:38:10 cd11d1 No.14079593

>>14079515

But it's just an HD version.

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 16:01:12 051bac No.14079673

GTA 4 was 8.99 on steam for the complete package. You can add mods to make it LOOK like a new game

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 16:01:35 975144 No.14079675

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December first.

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 16:03:06 cd11d1 No.14079682

>>14079673

Sales don't count.

>>14079675

I guess this, but what else ?

How can so many companies just ignore the december buying sprees people go on. It was bizzare.

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 16:05:37 2c11d1 No.14079688

>>14079593

thats OK, there's tons of other great games for me to catch up on this year. I just don't really know what came out this December.

>>14079682

games are mostly frontloaded for september-november period because it targets most birthday and the holiday season at the same time. december limits your time to market products.

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 16:12:59 ca9fd4 No.14079723

>>14079462

>>14079682

Sell in October/November.

If it's good, which the company obviously thinks is, you get instant sales for that month/s, then reviews from users and critics come in so the game gains steam and people who want to buy games, including parents that don't know/care and just get what they hear about a lot, buy the game.

Lots of games have better sales periods months after release, especially AA games that have unique aspects to them that scare people off initially.

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 16:38:55 036122 No.14079817

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>>14079462

The AAA segment has been in a crisis for years, and it's getting worse. Nobody wants to risk having their lunch eaten by Call of Duty around November. That's probably why most of the noteworthy AAA games released in 2017 came out early in the year, from February to May.

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 16:41:37 2c11d1 No.14079827

>>14079817

oh yeah the western industry is absolutely tanking. If your big focus is Western games you are not gonna be happy and you're gonna wanna get into Japanese games.

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 16:45:09 036122 No.14079837

>>14079827

I was talking about AAA games, Western or Japanese. (Though the West does produce more AAA games than Nips do.)

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 16:46:09 317a6f No.14079839

Nintendo released Mario Odyssey a month prior to build hype for the kids to want a Switch for Christmas. Releasing physical games in December would be a poor decision. Too little time to buy it in time for the holidays, and too chaotic of a time to buy it for the holidays.

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 16:50:16 fbd270 No.14079856

Earth Defense Force 5 came out in December

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 16:50:52 d12ec0 No.14079860

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Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 17:12:11 e35893 No.14079924

>>14079462

Because AAA doesn't release games anymore, they release "Platforms". No new games came out in December but a good number of games got new content.