What exactly is a video games analyst? Anyone can claim to be one but who judges whether they are qualified enough to comment? Yesterday UK retailer GAME announced record sales for the first half of the year up 52% based on the same period last year. A financial analyst stated that they believed sales have peaked at which point shares in GAME then plummeted by 14% despite the record sales. ButtonBandits.com offers an alternative opinion believing that sales will rise, attempting to prove that anyone really can be a games market analyst.
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It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
The Callisto Protocol director thinks the solution involves the right people, the right timing, and perhaps a little bit of AI
I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise
We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.
Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.
it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.
This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.
ButtonBandits won't be affecting anyone's shares
"What makes someone a video game analyst?"
Someone who can grasp the obvious and then claim it as "insider information".
Someone with a natural ability to be more wrong than right.
This just in, "The Wii outsells the PS3/360"
Shhhh... it's insider information