Everyone knows that the next 5 weeks are big. Big big. Assassin's Creed, Guitar Hero 3, Call of Duty 4, Super Mario Galaxy, Rock Band, Haze, Uncharted etc. etc. But if you've been living in a hole for the last 2 months, you're probably looking for SSB Brawl, GTA 4, UT3 & Army of Two. and here's where the worst word in the gaming community comes in... delayed.

But is it a bad thing? I've seen in assorted forums people talking about a new gaming term, the "good delay". the delayed game that helps spread out the holiday gaming line-up beyond the month of November. Now if you watch Sessler's Soapbox regularly, you'll already be versed to this method of thinking, but the main consensus is that it's the Christmas rush, and I'm sure that plays a big part in it. The kids don't have 300 bucks to spend on games and they figure Christmas is the time, every industry does it, and it's not new, but if you look closer, all the major releases (short of the Wii titles and music games I suppose) are either a hard Teen or Mature rating.

This seems to be pushing into the (now average) demographic of gamers who can afford to buy a game whenever they want... You know, cause they have jobs. Admittedly, ESRB ratings don't stop said kids from playing those games, some parents simply don't care, but shouldn't an industry think about forming their Christmas rush upon a strong base of mature rated games?

So there's some questions here, are the delays good? Should "good delay" even be in our vocabulary? Why is the majority of the Christmas catalog mature rated? Has the ESRB become even less of an influence of which games to buy?

What do you guys think? I'm sure theres an explanation