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This Week In The Business: Activate The Spin Cycle
Image credit: Bark. “We want to get our hands on Destiny 2 as soon as possible like everybody else, so we offered to share our PC platform with our sister companies for this release.” That’s Blizzard explaining why the PC version of Destiny 2 will be exclusive to Battle.net, conveniently neglecting to mention that doing…
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This Week In The Business: Lost In Translation
QUOTE | “It was never our intention to threaten people with copyright strikes, but we clearly chose the wrong tone for how to communicate this.” – Atlus apologizes for the threatening tone of its initial Persona 5 streaming guidelines, which explicitly threatened people with copyright strikes, as well as content ID claims and account suspensions.
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This Week In The Business: Scorpio’s Price May Sting
“I estimate the basic hardware will cost around $US650 ($867), so if Microsoft wants any kind of margin at all, Scorpio will have to retail for $US700 ($933) or more.” That’s IDC analyst Lewis Ward, bracing for a bit of sticker shock on Project Scorpio.
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This Week In The Business: Switches Get Riches
The Nintendo Switch global installed base after one week is 1.5 million, according to Superdata. The firm also believes 89% of Switch owners purchased The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild to go with the system.