XMAS in November?!?!?

I had the TV on last night while I was working on a 5-page yoga take-home test, and during commercial break, found myself being confronted by a housewife bundled in fashionable winter clothing, standing in front of her house, which had white Christmas lights hanging off the gate that enclosed her front yard.



My face:

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o_O

O_O !!!!

CHRISTMAS AD!

This ad was from Walmart. I saw it FOUR times within 45 minutes or so of having the TV on. Trust me, I know that the blonde-haired woman in the commercial is getting her husband an HD-DVD player, and her family's gonna like it.

Even Pepto-Bismol has their own holiday plug out already, and we're still a few weeks away from Thanksgiving.

I find it a little ironic this premature bombardment of Christmas commercialism bothers me.
Being a gamer who constantly has her ear to the ground for future games on the horizon, the holiday gaming season is usually a time of great excitement and expectations. Yes, everyone in the industry, gamers and publishers included, love Q4--the fourth quarter of the year that contains the holiday season.

I mean, you start hearing about Q4 games as early as the springtime, and holiday lists are usually solidified by sumertime. In essence, as a gamer, you're planning your Christmas in July.

I just can't understand why the rest of the world is feeling the need to hawk their Christmas wares so early. I've heard Walmart has already wheeled out their Halloween gear, and replaced it with an abundance of Christmas clutter.

Is Christmas just going to keep coming earlier and earlier? Do companies really have that much more to gain by advertising this early?

Speaking of which, I've got some holiday game suggestions to pull together.

A moment of silence for the lapse of time between Halloween and Thanksgiving that used to be noncommercial (comparatively, anyway).