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SEGA Explains Alpha Protocol Delay, "AAA Potential"

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GCO: "Alpha Protocol is a contender, non the less. However, with such heavy holiday competition, it needs the cutting edge tools to impressive potential buyers; seeing that it's a freshmen in the presents of senors. With that said, SEGA has revealed that Alpha Protocol has stepped back into the shadows, and that it won't release this year."
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Segata Sanshiro - 60 days 15 hours ago
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Segata Sanshiro knows that the reason behind Alpha Protocol's delay is because it is afraid of poor sales due to all the major releases this year.
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rdgneoz3 - 60 days 15 hours ago
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Yep, too many major releases coming out. I guess it'll be AAA material when it comes out without any competition.
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DK_Kithuni_71 - 60 days 11 hours ago
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1.2 - Spring 2010?
That's when blockbusters like God of War III and Gran Turismo 5 will be out. Good luck competing with that, SEGA. You will sure as hell need it.
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Serial_EDX - 60 days 10 hours ago
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DK you have to remember those are both ps3 exclusive, Since this will be multi it won't have to compete with just those. And personally I can't think of much coming out in spring for my 360 that I would want.

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Oh yea thanks. >.< For some reason I have really bad memory when it comes to games, There is more then likely more going to the ps3/360 in spring as well just bad with dates.
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Cold 2000 - 60 days 10 hours ago
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1.4 - @serial edx
Well Alan Wake and Splinter Cell conviction coming out in Spring.
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DK_Kithuni_71 - 60 days 8 hours ago
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1.5 - @Serial_EDX
2009 has been (and still is one hell of a year) for a PS3 owner like myself. 2010 looks just as good (if not better) for the PS3. Even the the Xbox 360 has some decent titles coming out. That goes both for exclusives and multi-platform.

Alpha Protocol may become a decent (if not great) game but SEGA's reasons for the delay of the game are pure rubbish. Maybe (if we gamers are lucky) SEGA has finally found out that releasing rubbish (the Sonic series the comes to mind) will not sell and that Alpha Protocol needs another few months of hard work before anyone in their right mind would buy it.
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Tony P - 60 days 8 hours ago
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"AAA potential"

Well. That sounds like a nice crock of euphemistic crap.

Anyway, I hope they use the time to do proper QA.
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R2D2 - 60 days 6 hours ago
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1.7 - Maybe they played the Mass Effect 2 Demo
and said WTF...We need to reevaluate or game.

Hoping the best for both game, i am a big fan of WRPG.
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free3sixty - 60 days 10 hours ago
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maybe you.. but the biggest games come out for the 360 in the 1st Q. of 2010.. Alan Wake, Mass Effect2 and Splinter Cell C.!

Anyways i cant wait for alpha Protocol
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kalebgray92 - 60 days 1 hour ago
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why does microsoft release all their best games at the beginning and end of the year ... after those release gotta wait for september for reach 6 month dry period... oh well still better than this year .... literally haven't bought a game in a year for my 360... but not since the release date for me2 came out ima preorder that
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devilmaycry2020 - 60 days 10 hours ago
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3 - soooo...
What I understand that if there are no competitive games released in the same time frame, its ok to release a sub par, crappy unplayable game.
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bjornbear - 60 days 10 hours ago
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4 - 1Q of 2010 is the fullest Q next year...
This game will not make it =( i'm interested in it though =D looks different!
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finbars75 - 60 days 9 hours ago
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5 - That makes no sense
Wont release until next year when all the big hitters come out?Its going to be worst for them next year.They must have a dud on there hands if they feel they cant compete with other games this season which is a little slower.This year has been just a push year for every great title.horrible.
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kingme71 - 60 days 8 hours ago
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Please tell me that English was this persons second language.
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sarshelyam - 60 days 5 hours ago
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6.1 - Seriously...
That segment posted above...even before clicking on the link my brain took a major dump on the mispellings and grammatical fumbles.
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Foxgod - 60 days 7 hours ago
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Thats smart, because early previews, like the one from ign, revealed that the gameplay wasnt so hot.
So this delay is only for the good.
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Jeff257 - 60 days 6 hours ago
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Im kind of glad this game got delayed . I was looking forward to it but more polish couldnt hurt. Also the holiday season is very crowded. but I think Publishers should start using the whole year for big releases and not try to group them all into a a few time frames.
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StarCSR - 60 days 4 hours ago
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9 - good choice
Even though -offcourse- they delayed it mostly because of all the AAA games releasing this holiday (and don't forget Mario Bros wii!) it's a good call. The gameplay seemed OK for me, but it didn't really look like a HD-game for this console generation... Hopefully they improve the visuals in these few months.
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PLAYSTATIONGENRATION - 60 days 1 hour ago
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I am so interested in this game..looks like mass effect
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Ceekay - 60 days ago
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This game looks amazing. I mean, a spy RPG how cool is that?

Hope the delay is worth it and Sega delievers.
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HALO-32 - 59 days 17 hours ago
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12 - "heavy holiday competition"
So basically they are saying “we are afraid of Modern Warfare 2”.

To be honest I would have rather picked up Alpha Protocol over Modern Warfare 2.

Since I can’t play online I can’t justify $60 for a 6 hour campaign.
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