this week in the business
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This Week In The Business: Love And Loot Boxes
QUOTE | “My highlight of 2017 was Breath of the Wild – what an incredible experience! The feeling of absolute freedom in BotW is beyond any other game I’ve seen, and the design of the world is so well done. I’m very happy to see my belief in Nintendo, and great game design, is once…
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This Week In The Business: EA Tries To Explain
“As we kept reviewing the game, it continued to look like a style of gaming, a much more linear game, that people don’t like as much today as they did five years ago or 10 years ago.” — EA CFO Blake Jorgensen, explaining why the publisher cancelled Visceral Games’ Star Wars project and shut the…
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This Week In The Business: Interesting But Unfair Comparisons
Image credit: niXerKG 47 million – Nintendo’s high-end forecast for Switch shipments by April of 2019. That would put the Switch’s first two years (and one month) of sales above the lifetime totals for the Wii U (14 million), GameCube (22 million), Nintendo 64 (33 million), and Super Nintendo (49 million).
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This Week In The Business: Place Your Bets
“For example, if the player purchased a particular weapon, the microtransaction engine may match the player in a gameplay session in which the particular weapon is highly effective, giving the player an impression that the particular weapon was a good purchase. This may encourage the player to make future purchases to achieve similar gameplay results.”…