Delayed…
So everyday when I load up a gaming news site, another anticipated game is officially delayed. Today it was Capcom’s turn to announce Dark Void is now a 2010 game. So now we’re onto announcing games that no-one is anticipating. Word on the street is next week Ubisoft will announce a delay for “Imagine: Gold Diggers.” The eagerly anticipated Fall 09 game will be pushed back for “better exploitation purposes.”
So these games are going back for two reasons. 1- extra polish time and 2- Publishers have finally realised that if they throw everything at November- that they will end up with some high profile sales casualties. So Splinter Cell Conviction won’t compete with Assassin’s Creed 2 and Modern Warfare 2 and ODST.
I’m down to four games coming out in November that I want (because, like many, I was burned by the first AC game). Super Mario Wii, Modern Warfare 2, Left 4 Dead 2 (which i wasn’t planning on rushing out to get) and Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time (Uncharted 2 is September). It looks as though I will be banging away at MW2 multiplayer for a few months without a feeling of guilt at all of the other games I have sitting around (as happened in late 2005 when I was glued to CoD2 for four months solid). I’m sure you driving enthusiasts will least least be sated this year.
So 2010 is looking crowded with the games that were coming out then anyway now competing with the delayed titles. This will be interesting
Crackdown 2
APB
Splinter Cell Conviction
Mass Effect 2
Red Steel 2
Army of Two 2 (maybe not that interesting)
Alan Wake
Bayonetta
Bioshock 2
Dark Void
There’s more of course. I Am Alive and the next ghost Recon are so delayed they’re now going from march 2010 to march 2011.
Anyone else’s wallet breathing easier?
