It happens all the time. Like when Alan Wake got completely over-shadowed by Red Dead Redemption.

I think Two Worlds 2 is not a game that will make a big splash on day one, regardless of release slot. The first game in the series was poorly recieved, I doubt it has a big marketing campaign, and it sure isn't building much hype atm. If it's good, it might get good sales over time due to word of mouth.

If a game is obscure enough, it's possible it may even benefit from releasing alongside a major game with millions of dollars in marketing.
 
It's hard to say whether TWII will be that obscure or whether Dead Space 2 will be that important. But Activision doesn't seem to mind releasing a Cabela's game on the same date as a Halo game (they've done it for H3, ODST and Reach now).

" @Dany said:

" You are over estimating Dead Space 2's influence. I doubt anyone would budge if they had their date the same day in Dead Space 2. "

@GlenTennis said:

" @Dany said:

" You are over estimating Dead Space 2's influence. "

"

I stated that Dead Space 2 Isnt some machine that will break the sales records But its a pretty fucking big game, it has a big following more so than I even thought, its gonna have a very nice release day and week But regardless lets talk about the topic, why release your game on the same day as another huge release? "

" @Evilsbane:  But see most people can't afford to buy both on the day they release. So naturally, those people are going to go with the game they find more interesting. Since RPG's and Action/Horror games are such different genres, it shouldn't be a hard choice. "

" I didn't think it was either but all the hype around the games release just made me think it had gotten popular, I guess I am just an idiot for thinking people played games of different genres but I am apparently one of few who do. "

You more or less seem irritated that no one flat out agreed with you. Plenty of people pointed out why it wasn't a poor decision and your vast overestimation of the Dead Space franchise. I'd say a lot of the GB community enjoys games regardless of genre, no need to be a mopey bastard about.
 
Though color me surprised that are people actually hyped for Two Worlds 2, I had no idea it was even coming out.  

Dead Space 2 isn't that big a deal and they're totally different games.  I really don't think it's gonna be much of an issue.  
 
Dead Space 1 only sold ~1.5M copies in its first 6 months.  Two Worlds 2 has already sold one million copies and it hasn't even come out in the US or UK yet.  That said, I don't expect TW2 to review particularly well in the US press (where polish is king), so if it does end up continuing to sell well, it'll probably be more of a slow burn / word of mouth thing rather than a Launch Day blitz.
 
I think they've been pretty smart tbh.  Once they'd missed their September date, they were right to postpone the UK/US launch into 2011 rather than go up against Fable 3 and New Vegas (that really would have sunk them), and they've still managed to comfortably avoid Dragon Age 2 (ditto).  They've also effectively given themselves the opportunity to use the EU launch as a 2-3 month Beta in preparation for the US/UK launch, which should result in more of that all-important polish.

" @Evilsbane: You're being sarcastic but yeah, the the whole idea that these two games are going to cut into each other right after Christmas when most people got money is pretty stupid of you. Big of you to admit it. In the meantime look up the term counterprogramming. "

" @Evilsbane said:

" I didn't think it was either but all the hype around the games release just made me think it had gotten popular, I guess I am just an idiot for thinking people played games of different genres but I am apparently one of few who do. "

 

You more or less seem irritated that no one flat out agreed with you. Plenty of people pointed out why it wasn't a poor decision and your vast overestimation of the Dead Space franchise. I'd say a lot of the GB community enjoys games regardless of genre, no need to be a mopey bastard about.
 
Though color me surprised that are people actually hyped for Two Worlds 2, I had no idea it was even coming out.  

  "

I wanted to talk about Small games getting overshadowed by a larger release not if Dead Space was popular, but I am not in the least bit irritated I learned a lot from this thread most of the post were constructive and I got my answer, that apparently it wasn't a stupid idea to release them on the same day Thread Accomplished! And I am not Mopey ...any sarcasm or Perceived "mopeyness" just isn't there I don't roll that way duder. "

What is really funny about this thread is that they delayed the PC version of TW2 to 2/08/11 so if you were getting it on PC it actually didn't release on the same day as Dead Space 2 anyway.