I’m painfully aware that I’ve not actually posted anything in almost a week! I’m not entirely sure what crazy energy reserves I’ve been running on lately but they clearly weren’t the sort that allowed me to do any actual logical thought processing. That said, I’ve also been struck dumb by the sheer weight of titles that have been released in the last few weeks and beyond. Allow me to elaborate, the last few days I’ve been playing Gears of War 2, this is to be played alongside World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (not sure how long this will get played for), alongside Mirror’s Edge that comes out on Friday, and then the week after I’m looking at the new Tomb Raider game.

 

That to me represents a pretty solid list of games to be playing over the course of 6 weeks, assuming a week to two weeks a game that sees me good till Christmas. However, and it is one almighty however, that doesn’t include a whole host of other games that are more than worthy of attention. It leaves out: Dead Space, Red Alert 3, Endwar, Farcry 2, Fable II, Fallout 3, Little Big Planet, Call of Duty 5 & Left 4 Dead.

It’s insane, there is really not enough time to try out the games. Now obviously some will be better than others and not worthy of the hype some will also not fall under personal preferences of “games I’d like to play” but still that’s an extraordinary number of games to come out in the same 8 - 10 week period. Edge-online ran a light piece on the “Holiday Crush” I understand the Christmas mentality for holiday sales, etc but this year does seem worse than others, last year was more a good title a week where as now it seems to be 2-3 good titles a week. 

It’s awesome that so many companies are making really good games and is something that can only benefit the consumer in the long run. However it can’t help but feel a little non-sensical at times, I don’t think the release schedules are going to change though and Christmas buying will continue to be the pinnacle target for all games publishers, with good reason obviously! It’s a proven model and has continued to work for the last 10 years, but I’m curious to see what sales numbers will look like at the end of the year after such a crowded Christmas. But then my games coming out in April so what do I care…