We were discussing about it here
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=494374
Too many games released on a week
I dont even think its so much a case of sometimes the number of games, but how much exposure they could be getting in the audiences eyes. Here on NeoGAF we dont bat an eye at reading 10 videogame articles or blogs a day back to back to stay in the know, but the average consumer is just gonna fire up their PS3 clueless, and whatever the PSN Stores got on the first page is going to win out.
Platform holders should really consider what they can add to their set-top boxes entirely controlled by them next go around thats going to facilitate more consumers being more informed and making more purchases. Personally I'd achieve this in a three step plan:
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Make trials mandatory for PSN games. You get that shit on someone's hard-drive and easy Full Game unlock, and you've done as much of the job as you can. But how do people know the trials out...
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Produce a weekly show about what the fuck is on PSN that week, which requires tighter scheduling and games being locked in (welcome to professionalism and deadlines rather than seat of your pants scribbled homework) but the benefit would be huge. Kassatsu's weekly threads are like the only way to know whats out and where most of the time, take that concept and make it even more interactive. When a clip comes up of a game on the screen, flash a "HIT CIRCLE OR WHATEVER THE FUCK TO DOWNLOAD TRIAL NOW", bam, added to queue and could even be ready to play by the time yer done with the ep. But how do people know about the show and force/tempt them to commit time to watch....
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You dedicate an entire button on the PS3 to it. Like not even kidding. You call the show 'The Playstation Triangle' or something, and thats the function of the triangle button on the XMB. It brings up this fucking weekly show. I cant even remember what the old stupid had to buy and subscribe show was on PS3, it was tangental at best and not in peoples faces. You eat the costs, it makes your platform a walking talking advertisement for games releases, publishers and devs quite like that A LOT, consumers buy more, baddabing baddaboom.
I often intend to write all this sorta shit up into project proposal documents and send them off to whoever, but I know how slow these dinosaur corporations move, how arrogant they are "no, we're doing fine, 12 games up at a time with no videos or accessable previews from the console is FINE' and I just can never be arsed. Also why do anything like that if youre not getting paid. SO HERES THIS ONE FOR FUCKING FREE.