Category: Industry News
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Our Take: EA Q2 FY 2018 Results
A minor loss now means printing money later. The EA Q2 FY 2018 results came out yesterday and as we predicted, EA continues to make positive gains in every financial category that matters. In this “Our Take”, I will pull out the highlights and talk about their impact on the current market. Baseline Financials Summary…
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Our Take: EA Dissolves Visceral Games [Updated]
Update 10/27/2017 – Our analysis was correct. As reported by Jason Schreier at Kotaku, EA closed Visceral Games because the Star Wars game was completely off track and the studio was too costly to keep open. Original Article: Before I continue let me be very clear about this next point: I don’t want to see…
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Nintendo can’t (or won’t) fix their supply chain
Nintendon’t Supply Chain It is hard to believe Nintendo when they talk about supply and meeting customer expectations. This is the second classic system release we have seen in a year that doesn’t have supply to meet the demand. As many predicted, Super Nintendo Classic pre-orders sold out in mere seconds with many being scooped…
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LawBreakers has fallen into the abyss between markets
LawBreakers is a tiny slice of an already small pie. This is going to be a short one because there isn’t a lot to say. Unfortunately, for what is probably a great group of developers, LawBreakers is falling very short of expectations. Not every game on the market needs to be the next Overwatch or Counter-Strike,…
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Dear Microsoft, The Xbox is an x86 PC (stop pretending it’s not)
Microsoft’s Ken Lobb (think Goldeneye) did an interview with Game Informer (linked from Gamespot) and danced around the fact that the Xbox family of consoles are small form x86 computers (thus they are going to upgrade them like a standard PC instead of releasing an entirely new device). Here is what he said: “What’s new is…
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Commentary on the Nintendo Switch reviews…
It is going to be quite a while until the industry looks back on the Switch as a huge success, mediocre success, or gamble that failed. There is one thing I have written about that I think is going to be the savior or key failure of this device: It is a product that makes…
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Nintendo’s Market Strategy and the Problem with the Switch
[Update 5/14/2018: Whatever the reason may be, this is one of the website’s most popular articles. Knowing that, I want to clarify a couple things in this article. Like most people analyzing the Nintendo Switch, I believed the “jack of all trades” strategy was likely a recipe for underwhelming sales. I can certainly admit that…
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Nintendo Switch Follow-up: Party & Voice Chat
A few weeks have gone by since the official Nintendo Switch reveal. There have been several press releases and interviews since that time. I want to break down the details of Nintendo’s most confusing statement so far: Voice/Party chat is not integrated. You have to use a smartphone companion app. (Official statement but unconfirmed reality)…
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The Nintendo Switch reveal was awkward and confusing
Nintendo. Nintendo. Nintendo. As much as you change, you stay the same. I watched the official Nintendo Switch reveal that Nintendo broadcast and all I can say is “I have no idea what Nintendo is doing and I don’t think they do either.” (If you want to watch it for yourself before reading the rest…