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- Tiger Woods 10 for Wii: An Electronic Arts Epiphany
- Bruce Everiss submits: /strong Popout Electronic Arts ERTS fascinates any industry observer. Strip away World of Warcraft and they are probably still the world’s biggest game publisher. They publish more genres of games and on more platforms than anyone else. In John Riccitiello they have an intelligent boss...
- External links 2009-08-17
- Electronic Arts Is Doing It All Wrong
- Bruce Everiss submits: /strong Electronic Arts ERTS have been making losses for so long that I am amazed that nobody has done anything about it. This time they have doubled their loss for their first quarter from $95 million to $234 million, massive figures, nearly $4 million every working day...
- External links 2009-08-05
- Examining Sega's Plummet
- Bruce Everiss submits: /strong We get used to reading these. Sega (SGAMY.PK) software sales drop by 60.5% for their Q1 ‘09. And they lost $108 million in the three months. What does this tell us?: Sega released less skus than the comparable quarter in ‘08. The AAA boxed part...
- External links 2009-08-04
- Electronic Arts Job Cuts: Grim Outlook for Game Industry
- Bruce Everiss submits: /strong The latest news will come as no surprise to readers here. I have written multiple articles on how and why Electronic Arts ERTS is losing so much money. And I have written multiple articles about what is wrong with the games industry and why it is...
- External links 2009-11-10
- Apple's App Store Numbers Continue to Amaze
- Bruce Everiss submits: /strong The App Store is an accident of history. But one that was predicted here. Apple AAPL had been making MP3 tracks available for a few years on the iStore. When they added a bit more memory and processing power to the iPod, they realized that it...
- External links 2009-11-05
- What You Don't Know About Gaming Could Make You Obsolete
- Bruce Everiss submits: /strong There is something about video gaming that a lot of people don’t understand, especially many politicians and much of the traditional press. And that is that gaming is just another form of media. Like the ballet, television, books, opera, film, newspapers etc etc. That is all...
- External links 2009-10-27
- Microsoft's Xbox Beats Out All Other Game Consoles
- Bruce Everiss submits: /strong I am very, very glad that I am not in competition with Microsoft’s MSFT Xbox division. They really are grinding the opposition down. And it is not as if they are attacking on one front. No, Microsoft believes in being better in every single possible way....
- External links 2009-10-22
- Some Free Advice for Electronic Arts
- Bruce Everiss submits: /strong To the office of John Riccitiello. You have had some success on iPhone with a relatively small number of high priced titles and have recently set up 8Ib Gorilla for lower priced titles, which is highly commendable. However, given the scale of what is...
- External links 2009-07-16
- Google's New Operating System Will Be Interesting to See
- Bruce Everiss submits: /strong So Google GOOG have announced that they are taking on Microsoft MSFT directly with what will initially be a simple operating system for low end PCs, an area where Microsoft are particularly vulnerable with their bloatware operating system. Windows Vista has been a disaster for Microsoft,...
- External links 2009-07-08
- Electronic Arts Likely to Become a Takeover Target
- Bruce Everiss submits: /strong I am a great fan of John Riccitiello of Electronic Arts ERTS, he talks the talk and says more sensible things than just about any other game industry manager. More than that, he has instigated a boutique, mix and match approach to working with developers which...
- External links 2008-12-11
- 7 Reasons Microsoft Revolutionized Xbox Live
- Bruce Everiss submits: /strong It is very important to understand that for Microsoft MSFT, the Live service is the main event. All the Xbox consoles serve as nominally pirate-proof dongles with which to access Live. In fact, the original iteration of Live cost more to develop than the...
- External links 2008-11-19
- Ubisoft: A Leader in Games Publishing
- Bruce Everiss submits: /strong I don’t usually put much effort into reporting company results, but these Ubisoft (UBSFY.PK) results help to illustrate a few points. They show how global publishers are doing these days, the degree to which the industry is booming and how good management makes a game publisher...
- External links 2008-10-28
- Electronic Arts: The Importance of Polishing Games
- Bruce Everiss submits: /strong Several times here I have gone on about the importance of polishing games. It is the one simple process that can make a good game great and an average game good. It seems a no brainer that investing time in polish will be immensely cost effective...
- External links 2009-06-04
- Microsoft's Big News for Gamers: Natal to Be Backwards Compatible
- Bruce Everiss submits: /strong This could be very big for game publishers and game players. Shane Kim, Microsoft’s MSFT corporate VP of strategy and business development in the games group (he must need oversize business cards!) has said that existing games can be patched for Natal: “You can...
- External links 2009-06-04
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- The Genius of Microsoft: 20 Million Xbox Live Users and Counting
- Bruce Everiss submits: /strong Nobody can deny that Microsoft's MSFT Xbox has done it. They have become a success in only the second generation of their console product. And against embedded competition. Xbox is now a license to print money. And if they manage it right it will...
- External links 2009-05-28
- Nintendo's Vitality Sensor Has Infinite Potential
- Bruce Everiss submits: /strong At E3 in 2009, Nintendo (NTDOY.PK) announced their Vitality Sensor and the video game world yawned. Just recently they have announced that they will be showing games for it at 2010 E3, that the device would be available to buy in Q4 ‘10, and the video...
- External links 2009-11-24
- How Big Will iPhone Gaming Be?
- Bruce Everiss submits: /strong This could have as big an effect on video gaming as the Wii did, maybe more. Basically the iPhone (and it’s close cousin the iPod Touch) were not designed as gaming machines. They were designed as general purpose pocket devices with an emphasis on telephony and...
- External links 2008-09-01
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