That means EA offers the right price and has enough firepower to bring down T2... at least the market seems to think so.
Didn't he say that he's pissed at Sony Japan just last week over social gaming?
http://www.gamesindustry.bi...
It's a Japanese company -- employees don't criticize their company or boss in public or the press.
Seems like he spoke out of his place, and so he suffered the consequence.
Valve and BioWare are not in the alliance because their publishers (EA) is not in it. I'm surprised EA is not in the alliance, given that their Sims franchise dominates the PC game market together with WoW.
Hm. Where did you hear Blizzard's StarCraft II + World of Warcraft: The Lich King and BioWare's Dragon Age (= Baldur's Gate III) are coming out on the PS3?
Those happen to be the TOP THREE 2008 games on a lot of people's lists, and they won't be on the PS3.
Unlikely. FCC allowed the Activision-Blizzard deal to get through.
Generally speaking, FCC wouldn't get involved (nor block nor care too much about any deal) in the gaming software business -- simply because they see games as unimportant.
You can't argue "anti-trust" or "monopoly" for gaming software business. Gaming is not required or necessary in life or business. If you don't like a game company, just don't buy their products -- it's not lik...
Midway itself is in the risk of being bought. I think Rockstar will most likely end up with Activision if this deal goes through.
Then they'll have to put as many titles on the platform as possible to maximize their advertising fees.
Hm.
Even rumors have to come from CREDIBLE SOURCES. Otherwise, anyone here can go register an account at any forum, post whatever rumor he likes and claims that it originated from some magazine, and then submit it here on N4G. This seems to be what's going on here.
Maybe I should start doing that and posting dozens of rumors I like in here. Unless the admin/mod start to penalize people who submit/approve this kind of crap, I likely will because -- hey -- since there's no consequen...
The serious problems with this one:
1. This is a rumor -- from a public forum posted by an unknown individual/user who's basically anonymous. For this sort of rumor, we should demand more credibility.
2. The forum post was dated almost a month ago on Jan 29 -- that's just old.
3. You put the two togother: if the magazine report was valid and the rumor has any credibility, then you would have expected this rumor to be posted all over the gaming press al...
1. This is a rumor from a FORUM and an ANONYMOUS user.
2. It's posted in the forum almost A MONTH AGO. Apparently it's fake, otherwise this kind of magazine report would have been all over the Internet weeks ago already.
Since when can the UN put a tax on anyone or any country?!?
In case you haven't noticed, corporate and business work quite very differently in the West.
Right now, major American retailers are more interested in dumping HD DVD on consumers to recover as much money as possible.
Unlike major Japanese retailers, which had already had suspended all sales of HD DVD:
http:/...
It's not selling more only because not everyone (in the US) can find and buy one. If Nintendo can allocate more Wiis to the US, the Wiis would have overtaken Xbox 360 in the US.
Maybe Reggie knows something about the upcoming supply in the next ffew months that we don't.
And from everything I've read about that blabbermouth, you can't trust his words 100 percent.
He's saying negative stuff about Xbox Live only to sell the PS3 version of UT3. When the time comes, he will change his tune and say different things to sell the Xbox 360 version of UT3.
He's saying things only to sell his games, whatever those games are at the moment.
After you read a lot of rhetorics from Mark Rein, you'll start to see a pattern. And I've be...
Sony, Electronic Arts, Lionhead, Areae and all the industry experts disagree with you.
When you have established as much credibility, experience and reputation as they do, then I'll take your words over theirs.
Those games you listed doesn't bring anything truly new or revolutionary to the table. They just recycle what has already been done before and just make it flashier and louder.
WoW became very successful because Blizzard already had a solid reputation from making WarCraft, StarCraft and Diablo. People trust the company and the name "Blizzard", and people buy whatever Blizzard makes because they know it's gonna be good.
All other MMOs have failed because all the other companies that made them do not have the reputation of Blizzard.
BioWare, on the other hand, is more or less in the same league with Blizzard. People trust those br...
Interesting that fanboys are complaining about Valve not making games for PS3 and how Valve is anti-PS3.
But no one is complaining about Insomniac not making games for the Xbox 360 and is anti-Xbox 360.
Bill Gates said Blu-ray vs. HD DVD would be the "last" physical format war. He's WRONG.
Video quality will only get better and better, and resolution will only get higher and higher -- which means videos will require more and more storage space.
The video of future will take up more space than even Blu-ray could store.
Right now, we're looking at hi-def, 1080p, that takes up 50 gigs to 100 gigs of data space. If you think that's good enough f...
Your Xbox 360 can already play and upscale DVDs. You don't need to get that obsolete add-on to do that.
that Take-Two can run but can't hide, and EA offers enough to take down Take-Two:
http://www.forbes.com/marke...