With Kaplan gearing up to ride her horse out into the sunset, she still managed to find time to sit down and chat with Stepehen Totilo from MTV. The discussion centered around the delay for Smash Bros. Brawl, but Kaplan explained that Nintendo is starting to look at the release calendar differently. Instead of cramming all of the games into the last quarter of the year, Nintendo is looking at spreading their release throughout the year."Sunday is actually a really good launch day of the week for products. And I think we're actually starting to look at the annual calendar differently. The first two quarters of the year tend to be more quiet. But now we've seen some evidence of sales in that period," she comments. "Other than the holiday quarter, I think the traditional way of viewing it is not necessarily a slam dunk. I think a really good product can be a slam dunk any time of the year."
Personally, we'd like to see a more balanced release schedule throughout the year, so we like this new way of thinking. The holiday season is expensive enough for us, having to purchase presents, so we often have to overlook some titles due to constraints on our cash supply.
[Via Joystiq]
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10-24-2007 @ 2:32PM
sean said...
will you please stop refering to yourself as "we" when you clearly mean "I". you are aloud to talk about youself as a separate human being
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10-24-2007 @ 2:54PM
GoldenPie said...
By "we" they mean the whole of the staff at Nintendo Wii Fanboy.
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10-24-2007 @ 2:55PM
Zack W. said...
@ Sean
I don't think that is really allowed. This site is a collective expression. There are no personal columns. It is a matter of format...like the AP. They produce their products with a certain format, and so does this site. Otherwise, it would be just a collection of personal blogs.
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10-24-2007 @ 3:01PM
sean said...
^ yes, I realise that, but i just seems a bit impersonal that the writers never seem to give their own personal opinions or experiences,
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10-24-2007 @ 3:35PM
Ghaleon said...
Aloud and allowed
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10-24-2007 @ 3:55PM
Soiden said...
I knew it! I said the Brawl delay wasn't to add more things to the game [Maybe they'll do that after all, though], but to give some time to games like Galaxy. From Prime3 to Galaxy, there are nearly 3 months, and between Galaxy and Brawl, there are 3 months.
That way, you can say Mario Kart Wii could be released in May. The question now is, what's coming next? Animal Crossing?
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10-24-2007 @ 4:31PM
Mr Khan said...
Nintendo's late 2008 schedule will be dominated by Disaster and Animal Crossing, and probably something else out of left field
Sunday launch means i actually GET IT on the Monday, which is awesome, and i could possibly get to New York that day, if i felt up to the madness, to actually get it on Sunday
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