It's hard to argue with that point: very few 'big' games are launched in the July-August period. But just because that's the case doesn't mean there's a 'drought' of games, any more than not buying bottled water doesn't mean there's no water coming out of the tap. We've never had it so good.
Faced with so much choice that it can be overwhelming – I'm thinking of Mr. Burns in the supermarket, confused by the difference between ketchup and catsup – it can be easy to forget just how broad our options are these days, even when our own brains are conspiring to tell us there are...