NPD December 2011

There is no Sony FPS/TPS that levels the playing field against Halo and Gears. After Gran Turismo you have Uncharted and God of War, GT while declining is still quite large but Uncharted and God of War are maybe around Gears levels.

What data suggests that many households are dual HD console households and/or HD console + gaming PC?

 

Battlefield is better than COD imo. I'd rather MS court that franchise than cave in to Bobby Kotex.

 

I could understand that. Wrangling a little extra per game sold is usual business practice - because you are buying lots, you pay a little a less. Because I am selling so many copies of this game, you do a discount on the license fees. A cut of ongoing network expenses seems unrelated to the game. Activions already make their money. I can understand it if the deal incorporated extras, like early DLC for XB360 or something. If there's a behind-the-scenes deal in place and we only heard about the cut, that's fine Otherwise, as I say, why not EA? "No sports games on your console if we don't get ongoing protection money!"

 

I stopped playing COD after Modern Warfare and I have never played anything but Bad Company 1/2 for the Battlefield series so I couldn't tell you. It is the idea that a Battlefield at 12M+ (sell-in) game couldn't compete against the COD 18M+++ that is crazy to me when you consider that both Halo and presumably Gears would still remain on the platform.

 

The same could be said of GTA last gen, It was *the* game, its still huge mind but has been overtaken by COD. Ive got a feeling the next COD will not be as big as the current one

 

People have been saying that since cod4, eventually they will be right.

 

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=23871

Did that $250M for the Nokia/WinPhone come out of the Xbox division?

 

Not sure what that would accomplish. EA are no better than Activision. Both of the CEO's pursue the exact same business in almost the exact same way. Only Kotick is more willing to let you know what's on his mind. That's pretty much the only difference.

At least Activision has ruined far less developers and game franchises than EA has.

Whether it's COD, BF, Gears or whatever other 3rd party MS courts. Money will change hands and demands will be made.

I always find it amusing that people find Kotick so evil or diabolical, yet he is no different than any other CEO of any other corporation. Well, other than the fact he can't keep his mouth shut.

Regards,
SB

 

Yes, it's in the statement I quoted earlier in the thread.

 

Thanks I am taking a 3 month pass for questions more stupid than usual

 

just saw this on gamasutra
check how its selling now 'the magic is gone'. Not looking good for the next iteration

 

Yes, it sold a $billion in the first 3 weeks, and now it doesn't have legs 5 months later. I'm sure they'll cancel the next one...

 

I honestly couldn't be bothered with CoD3 this time around. I'm more interested in Battlefield and Medal of Honour now.

 

I wasnt suggesting that, I was pointing out I was right again. I do have a very high rate of successful predictions on this forum perhaps I should become an analyst (well I am already sortof) you OTOH I recommend to not give up your day job

 

Just make sure the next time you are wrong you are just as vocal and suggest you and Patcher retire

 

If the best you can do is predict something will sell better or worse (with about a 50% success rate), you're analyst abilities aren't very useful. If you had predicted after 6 months MW3 would sell 4% less than black ops (and that's not even a public figure, it's based on an analyst), maybe you'd have something to talk about. However, feel free to continue stroking your own ego and amusing me at the same time.

 

Your analytical predictions so far are not alpha generating strategies! (google it)

They are 50/50 predictions that anybody here can guess at.

 

I dunno, if he got things right 50% of the time, he'd be outperforming Pachter significantly...

 

Lol

 

Not to mention 4% is a rather meaningless dip when the entire game industry is dipping much more than that. 4% is entirely within the margin of error of an analyst without hard numbers.

And when factoring in the current decline of the console gaming space, COD MW3 is doing extraordinarily well in comparison.

Regards,
SB