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Wario Land Shake, Mario Strikers Charged, Battalion Wars 2
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So he's now double lame.
Yeah but at least he looks good, right? That has to count for something.
Lasky starts off saying recent EA financial shortfalls "could hardly have come as a surprise". He goes on: "While Activision was setting sales records with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, EA had no major hits.
"EA's sports business has been hamstrung by vastly increased licensing costs and failure to transition to a subscription/variable pricing model. This has substantially reduced the profitability of a business that EA used to rely on to fund other, riskier bets," added Lasky.
"But by far the greatest failure of Riccitiello's strategy has been the EA Games division. JR bet his tenure on EA's ability to 'grow their way through the transition' to digital/online with hit packaged goods titles," he went on to say.
"It's been a very ugly scene, indeed. From Spore, to Dead Space, to Mirror's Edge, to Need for Speed: Undercover, it's been one expensive commercial disappointment for EA Games after another. Not to mention the shut-down of Pandemic, half of the justification for EA's $850MM acquisition of Bioware-Pandemic. And don't think that Dante's Inferno, or Knights of the Old Republic, is going to make it all better. It's a bankrupt strategy."
Pulling no punches, Lasky went on to say: "With EA's enterprise value down below $4 billion, it's remarkable that nobody has stepped in to put them out of their misery with an acquisition," citing Disney and Chinese companies like TenCent that could "swallow EA whole".
"It's equally amazing that the board continues to support the existing management team through this debacle. Since JR took over, the company has destroyed over $11 billion in market value." Ouch.
There's more on Lasky's blog (thanks MCV).
Bad for the suits, good for the gamers
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It will add guns. And boobies.
And violence. And sweet pert fem-ass.
you should read that edge article I linked to ( in the cel shading thread I think) basically about what a great game POP sands of time was and how the sequel fucked up in everything except sales. ( a bitter pill to swallow for me) I think that will be what happens...
This is so cute, a promo PR kit for DS game Hercule, with mini-Trojan horse.
Yes, Hercule.
And what is the connection between Hercules and the Trojan Horse again?
edit: in case the irony is not obvious enough there is none. at least not in greek mythology
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Did we not discuss this in the first Euro cast? That Hercules wanted to go to Troy, but then turned back.
no, i mispoke if i said that. hercules wanted to go on the Argo to help Jason fetch the Golden Fleece but he had to stay back because he was so badass the ship wouldn't move.
i'm pretty sure he does not feature in any way what so ever in the iliad
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Well we have a good topic for the podcast.
Not quite, one of the big reason for their troubles is the acquisition of Bioware and Pandemic. The latter was a big waste.
Holy mother of God
NPD numbers
PlayStation 2 333.2K
PlayStation 3 1.36M
PSP 654.7K
Xbox 360 1.31M
Wii 3.81M
Nintendo DS 3.31M
NEW SUPER MARIO BROS. WII WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Nov-09 2.82M
WII FIT PLUS* WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Oct-09 2.41M
WII SPORTS RESORT W/ WII MOTION PLUS* WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Jul-09 1.79M
CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2* 360 ACTIVISION BLIZZARD Nov-09 1.63M
CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2* PS3 ACTIVISION BLIZZARD Nov-09 1.12M
WII PLAY W/ REMOTE WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Feb-07 1.01M
MARIO KART W/ WHEEL WII NINTENDO OF AMERICA Apr-08 936.1K
ASSASSIN'S CREED II 360 UBISOFT Nov-09 783.1K
LEFT 4 DEAD 2 360 ELECTRONIC ARTS Nov-09 728.5K
MARIO & LUIGI: BOWSER'S INSIDE STORY NDS NINTENDO OF AMERICA Sep-09 656.7K
Holy crap at the Wii, Holy crap at the DS, Holy crap at Mario, Wii Fit Plus and Wii Sports Resort. Just holy crap.
Wii - 2.15 million
NDS - 3.04 million
X360 - 1.44 million
PS3 - 726,000
PSP - 1.02 million
PS2 - 410,000
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