Wasn't ratchet and clank supposed to be a launch window game now months later still no release date?
Yes, Ratchet is a launch window game and the launch window of a console is 6-9 months. Time after mentioning it was a 'launch window' game, they specified it will be released during '2021' or 'H1 2021'.
I assume they'll release it around May or early June, or in late June. Probably around a month before E3 or a few weeks after it as they did with TLOU2, to make sure gaming press have time to review it.
Its because i think its a strange conclusion to draw from your observation.
I have a better conclusion:
The poll probably favors AAA narrative driven single player games due to being on IMDB. This makes the results skewed towards Sony, because this is something they excel at.
Half of the years of the last decade had a Sony game as the game who received more GOTY awards (God of war 2018 was one of them, also won it at Neogaf), and most of these years also had more Sony exclusives in the top positions of the ranking.
Most of them also seem to sell particularly well (GoW 2018 sold over 10M copies in its first year or so) and get very good metacritics (GoW 2018 got a 94).
People seem to love many big Sony exclusives, particularly loved GoW 2018 and GoW Ragnarok will be a direct sequel. So it got the most anticipated award in many places like IMDB or Neogaf.
BOTW had better sales, metacritic and also was the game that won the most GOTY award its year. If BOTW2 would have been announced as a 2021 game maybe would have won it, but even if many of us assume it will be released this year, we still don't officially know which year are they going to release it, so maybe many people didn't vote it for that reason.
Thats a reasonable conclusion if most of the other poll results are ignored. Many recent polls have had sony games destoying all the other games with nintendo ones being at the bottom. Sales numbers shows this not to be the case. The poll results are always 10 or 20 to 1 for sony vs Nintendo but the sales numbers are basically reverse this. Again i just think the vocal sony fans like to vote for more things then the vocal nintendo fans. I think most of these polls represent the minority of gamers which is the vocal forum using gamers. If a poll was done at all places games are sold and that data was tallied up im quite confident we would see nintendo games come out on top and by a decent margin.
There are less Nintendo games because Nintendo releases less big games per year. I mean, if you look at the sales rankings sure, there are many Nintendo games but most of them were released in previous years.
But these 'GOTY' or 'most anticipated games' lists traditionally are limited to the games released on (case of GOTY) or specifically announced for (case of most anticipated) a single year, and in a single year there are more big games released on PS than on Switch. All these games released in previous years aren't included.
Same goes with the 'most anticipated games of 2021' lists, they include there the games announced for that year. Big AAA games traditionally announce their games years before the release and show the release year way in advance. Nintendo instead traditionally announces their games closer to release, and specially the release dates are announced pretty closer to their release date. So games like BOTW2, Bayonetta 3 or Metroid Prime 44 aren't included there because we still don't know if they will be released on 2021 or not, even if we assume it will be the case for at least some of them.
In addition to this, many big Nintendo games are enhaced/expanded/improved ports of WiiU games. Many Nintendo fans already bought it there, so even if will buy it again they aren't that hyped for that game than they would for a brand new game (example: people will be more hyped for a brand new Mario game like Odyssey 2 or let's say 3D World 2 than for 3D World + Bowser Fury). Same goes with people who didn't buy them on WiiU/3DS but will get it for Switch, they may buy it but wouldn't be as hyped as they would be for a brand new game.
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