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[Rhindle]

Launch games do sell well, assuming that there are a few million units available for launch.

Nothing is going to sell "well" if it is selling to a fraction of 200,000. I don't know why any publisher would not just sit back and wait six months and see how things go. Absent moneyhats and the like.

 

[sonycowboy]

Launch games do sell well, assuming that there are a few million units available for launch.

Nothing is going to sell "well" if it is selling to a fraction of 200,000. I don't know why any publisher would not just sit back and wait six months and see how things go. Absent moneyhats and the like.

There weren't millions of units available for Sony's PS2 US launch or any of the GCN or Xbox launches.

I'm quite sure publishers are pissed with Sony right now, but the plans right now seem to be to have good shipments for the remaining regions next March and a good supply in Japan by then, so I don't think it changes things much.

Most of the big publisher commitments for launch are games that will sell across all regions.