Too Many Games!

And you thought you had too many games to buy and play this Christmas!...



Nice to see some exercise equipment in there as well after all that gaming. They have rather skimped on the TV though don't you think? Maybe it's a retro thing.

I know this happens every year with something like 50% of all games released in the 8 week run up to Christmas. I can even see the developers and publishers thinking in that it's the time of year when people splash out with their spending and possibly spend more time indoors gaming, but this year seems worse than ever. There are so many games I'd like this Christmas but even if I could afford them all it'd take me until next Christmas to play them.

Unfortunately some games that at a quieter time of year you may have taken a gamble on, will get overlooked and fail to recoup their costs. What's even more unfortunate is that it'll be the marketing giants that make it through unscathed. I hear this is the reason Zak and Wiki has been delayed until 2008 on the Wii, to prevent what looks like a fantastic little game from getting completely trampled on by the big releases from Nintendo. Maybe this is the start of some publishers learning from their mistakes?

Should game releases be spread out more evenly over the year? Let us know on the GAMEOV3R Forum