thelastword
Banned
I think instead of delaying it, they should have pushed it up two weeks instead. As it stands. you're now waiting till many AAA games flood the market before DG's release, in the vein of; RE2, ANTHEM, KH, METRO, SEKIRO, DMC5 et al... These are lots of games to buy over a two month span, so most likely people would be delaying their purchases on some of these games even past DG's release, which translates to less potential buyers for DG at launch....
Say it releases Feb 5th or 7th and gets reviews in the 80+% range, it's a new IP, it will do well and word of mouth will carry it to even outperform some of the AAA releases which would come after, especially if said AAA releases don't review as well as DG....Persons who were probably saving their money to buy one of these AAA games or a second game in that list, may now spring it on DG due to good reviews and word of mouth, because it's already on the market ahead of such titles....
It's a case where if you delay DG after the release of all of those titles, people would have already spent all their disposable income on a bevy of games. So if DG comes out after these games and it's good and better than some of these AAA games, gamers have already splooged, whether they regret it or not, the money is already gone, so that can affect DG's initial sales as a result...
Say it releases Feb 5th or 7th and gets reviews in the 80+% range, it's a new IP, it will do well and word of mouth will carry it to even outperform some of the AAA releases which would come after, especially if said AAA releases don't review as well as DG....Persons who were probably saving their money to buy one of these AAA games or a second game in that list, may now spring it on DG due to good reviews and word of mouth, because it's already on the market ahead of such titles....
It's a case where if you delay DG after the release of all of those titles, people would have already spent all their disposable income on a bevy of games. So if DG comes out after these games and it's good and better than some of these AAA games, gamers have already splooged, whether they regret it or not, the money is already gone, so that can affect DG's initial sales as a result...
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