Yet another highly-anticipated title will not find its way into Santa's jolly red sack this holiday season. Activision Blizzard announced yesterday that they're pushing StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty into the first half of 2010, because their proprietary online gaming service, Battle.net, won't be ready this year.This isn't much of a surprise, given that the beta release had already been delayed. Still, it's one less AAA title to compete with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which is now projected to sell an extra gazillion units. 1UP has a rundown of all (most?) of the games of 2009 that have become the games of 2010.
Am I the only one who cringes at the thought of MW2 having such an easy time getting picked off the shelves this holiday season ? ? ?
ReplyDeleteSo - from a developer that has a long history of pumping piss into the gaming industry, we have another title that's going to be a success before it even has to meet any real expectations.
I say - let it sit on the shelves.
For the billionth time - IW produces rubbish with a pretty can liner.
How about they pay attention to the contents of their sack, instead of the fancy little drawstrings that you can use to pull it out of the garbage can.
Oh - and I was actually looking forward to playing Starcraft II - but have very little expectations of it being as good as a Hefty Sack.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed CoD4 for the year we played it, and it's nice to float back to it once in a while to remind myself what it's like to play a fully-developed MP shooter. MW2 will be the same thing with more toys, so I'm sure I could play it. For a bit, anyway.
ReplyDeleteThe problem I have with MW2 is that it's going to sell 12-14 million copies at ten bucks above the standard video game price point, and not a half a million of those sales will be of the PC version. It's not ATVI/IW's fault that that's the state of the industry, but I think the enormous success of MW2 will hurt PC gaming in the long run.
I must stand beside you (fully clothed) on your last comment !
ReplyDeleteMW2 is going to hurt the PC gaming industry.
WOW has completely changed the PC gaming industry.
There are many factors that have completely changed the industry we all once loved.
Consoles seemingly get all the good releases and it doesn't take a rocket scientist like Plucky to figure out why.
Meanwhile, PC gamers are left with the crumbs ... in this case MW2.
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Just kidding but seriously - I do agree with what you said about sale proportions.