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High Scores And Egos: There's Always A Bigger Doodle Oh dear. Famitsu publisher (and industry analysts) Enterbrain have published their Japanese figures for the month of October, and it’s not pretty reading. Compared to October 2007, software sales are down 14.9%. Hardware sales are even worse, down an impressive 29.1%. Overall, this means the market is down 21.6%. That’s…that’s really sad reading. Only bright side is if you’re a Microsoft Japan employee, as for the month, the 360 outsold the PS3, 27,000 to 22,000. Crazy days.
Capcom’s entering the home stretch for Resident Evil 5 — or better yet, the home stretch of the home stretch. The game’s out next spring, and the game’s producer, Jun Takeuchi, hinted to game site Eurogamer than an announcement was forthcoming. When quizzed about possible RE5 DLC, Takeuchi replied it was something they were thinking about, adding, “We do get that question a lot, and people seem to want it, so it’s possible that it’s something we would like to respond to.”
Shigeru Miyamoto is a great game designer, we all know that. He’s an incredibly insightful and intelligent man. Likewise, that we all know. Yet, lately his interview responses sound, we dunno, canned? Take these recent responses regarding Wii Music:
In case you missed it, there was a big, business-end-of-town conference, called the BMO Capital Markets Conference, held today in New York. Everyone who was anyone the the business end of the games industry was there. And that includes Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick, who gave a little talk on the state of his company. While it was filled mostly with stuff about sales projections and IP strengthening and blah blah blah, he did whip out a few presentation slides that were of interest.
People want stuff cheap. It’s human nature. Why spend $100 on something when you can spend $50 on it and spend the other $50 on something else? You see where we’re going with this. Anyway, lots of people want the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS cheap because, well, the Wii hasn’t had a price cut since forever, and the DS hasn’t had one in a while either. What the people want, though, and what Nintendo are willing to give are two completely different things. Reggie Fils-Aime:
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After last week‘s exciting new hardware debuts, the Japanese hardware sales charts calm down a bit. Sure, the Nintendo DSi is still selling like gangbusters, but the PlayStation 3 starts its journey downward into more normal territory, moving less than half of what it did the week prior. On the flip side of the hi-def console war, the Xbox 360 doubles its week-to-week sales in Japan, making this pie chart a lot less red and a lot more lime green.
According to Variety, Brash Entertainment are no more. The young company – who were only launched in 2007 – had recently laid off a bunch of employees and cancelled a few projects, but were promising the world that they’d not be going under. Shows how good business promises are these days! The Variety reports says that, ever since company co-founder Thomas Tull jumped ship, the investors propping the company up with cash money have bailed as well, leaving them with…no money. If this checks out, we won’t really miss them as a company, since the only thing they ever did was release a few crappy games and talk a lot of talk, but it always sucks to hear of devs and staff losing their jobs en masse.
Do you know when Sony’s Home is actually going to be “released”? I don’t. And what am I thinking, you don’t either. Don’t think even Sony knows that. It’s all a bit of a mess. We do know the next-best thing, however, and that’s the company’s “timeline” for rolling out from a closed beta into an open beta. An open beta being a release in all but name. The following was posted on SCEE’s boards for curious users, so if you’re a curious user, click through for the full details.
Times are tough. Economically speaking, at least. And when times are tough, people have less money to spend, and when people have less money to spend, big business gets worried. Gaming is a big business these days, so is gaming worried? Let’s find out. Speaking at the BMO Capital Markets interactive entertainment conference today, the big cheese from EA, Nintendo, Take-Two and Ubisoft all sounded off on their thoughts for the holiday season. Those thoughts range from the optimistic to the not-so-optimistic.
