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The Top 7... worst release dates EVER

How poor planning can wreck franchises both big and small

Words: Brett Elston, GamesRadar US
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solidsnake_5552000  - 11 months 28 days ago 
Oh my poor dreamcast!! This great console didn't deserve that fate.
pdiddy0819  - 11 months 28 days ago 
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J1mMy94  - 11 months 28 days ago 
i agree with Eo1 spy. ive been waiting for resistance 2 for ages and they release it about a month ahead in the US hardly fair:(
CAPST3R  - 11 months 28 days ago 
resistance 2 kicks gears 2's ass. it's been rated higher. and i never liked the first gears. but i loved resistance
StupidFaceXD  - 11 months 27 days ago 
Eh... Not my favorite Top 7, but it's ok.
Smiffy99  - 11 months 27 days ago 
Man, for me, the worst release date was Halo 3...right on the day an aqquaintance had a volleyball game. UNTIL FIVE O' FREAKIN' CLOCK!
mrmugen53  - 11 months 27 days ago 
How about adding Geometry Wars: Galaxies to the list?

It was the first time Geometry Wars was available outside of the 360, it was at a cheap price point, had multiplayer for the first time, multiple levels with an upgradable drone ship, and has a respectable gamerankings score of 81%.

Then it launched one week after Super Mario Galaxy and no one ever knew it existed. The Wii had been starved for games and Sierra shipped it on the coattails of arguably the biggest Wii release up to that point. Ugh.
jackf-11  - 11 months 26 days ago 
Sad PS3 fanboys, you only didn't enjoy Gears because you didn't want to.

But I figured it out, the Japanese were behind 9/11, even though they have no army other than ours.
pot  - 11 months 25 days ago 
Valkryia Chronicles is a great game, I hope it doesn't get lost in the shuffle too much!
abzu  - 11 months 25 days ago 
I just caught this at 666 diggs! (Incidentally, I was digg #667.) Talk about Digging up the beast... screenshot here: http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg77/digitalucifer/shit/666digg.jpg
CoD_22  - 11 months 6 days ago 
theyve missed the worst possible one! nintendo released the gameboy micro AFTER the ds! idiots! did they really think they could sell a gba in miniture rather than a dual screen touch screen thing?
Cwf2008  - 10 months 26 days ago 
1 – Chaos is the largest, most visible thing on the package. Again, airport chaos on or around 9/11 probably isn’t the smartest choice

2 – That airliner is doing a loop. Assume those people are dead

3 – The controller is announcing what he is, on the box, in case the huge title and plain image of an airport wasn’t enough

4 – Despite saying he’s an air traffic controller, his facial expression and nervous sweat drops indicate he’s faking it, which explains problem number 2 AND...

5 - ...the fact that this plane is SIDEWAYS

6 – And he has three fingers on each hand!

Lol i love #2 the most...seriously though they had the whole year to release that stupid game and they decided to release it on 9/11? Well better than Advanced Wars i guess, which launched on the actually day of the attacks...and guys there is actually a conspiracy with 9/11. You see, what really happened is no planes hit the towers at all. It was actually secret Alaskan mutant firebreathing penguins that kamakazied into the towers
MoChilla  - 9 months 20 days ago 
threads of fate was the only game I bought at the time without waiting for it to end up at the 10$ bin at gamestop.(parasite eve 10 years later.)
milwil09  - 9 months 16 days ago 
Poor Resistance 2. Why Gears? Why?
Chicago  - 9 months 7 days ago 
GEARS2OMFGCHAINSAAAAAAWS

Thankfully, i did not fall for this

Recaptcha: (ALaskan cats) sarah Palin?
MGS4life  - 8 months 18 days ago 
ya Dreamcast was like... destoryed so quickly.. I'v played N64 and PS1 back in the day.. and I don't even remember Dreamcast.. and am pretty strong gamer.. After a year or 2 after Ps2 was released I came across a garage sell.. and saw the dreamcast.. ? it had some fun games on it.. but ya consider it was released right before the Ps2, xbox and gamecube.. it got its 10min of fame.. then was smash to nothing
DreadZer0  - 8 months 17 days ago 
I can't belive you forgot Juiced 2 and halo 3. Both came out on the 25th september. One was highly anticipated, and the other was a racing game.
ryno  - 8 months 6 days ago 
im with you guys when it comes to Okami i want a sequel and a psp port
Assassin4than  - 6 months 29 days ago 
what about saints row 2 which was a week b4 fable 2 which pwnd sr2 but most of the people were saving for guitar hero world tour seeing as its so expensive
scatmanjones  - 6 months 26 days ago 
that air traffic control game releasing the game on 9/11 is just messed
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