Malik
(9/02/04) Make
or Break Holliday Season Approaching Wedbush
Morgan Securities, a financial analyst group has predicted, according
to Gamespot.com, that this holiday season will be a time for
many companies to either thrive or suffer in the game world. To sum
things up, they expect a group of 11 highly anticipated games to far
outsell the competition...which will in turn lead to lower sales for
the companies not involved with their list of games. In fact, they
are expecting over half of the software that will sell this year to
be sold in the last 3 months of the year...you may recall Malik here
mentioning something like that a couple days ago on my nightly
post. These
games include some of the obvious return franchise favorites; Halo
2, Madden, Gran Tourismo, GTA:SA, etc. Wedbush Morgan Securities is
basically expecting all publishers of games that will arrive in the
next 3 or so months that are not involved with these specific titles
to face some rough times as their games go neglected and ignored as
the majority of consumers reach for the in-games. Now,
as I mentioned before, I've been saying this for the last few
days...makes me feel like I would be better off being a game
industry analyst since I can see this crap a few days before the
real analysts say it. Oh well. However, what this doesn't directly
say is how badly it will affect the more "cult" followed
of games (like Phantom Brave), which will suffer and their
publishers and developers will feel the pinch due to all of
this...and we may too, as their games fail and thus they limit
production of future titles in the US in a desperate step to
overcompensate for a failure in the future. Blah. For
more on this, check out Malik's Bitchings tomorrow...on which I've
already finished a piece on this entire deal a couple days ago (but
I like a little structure in my life; M's Bs come on Fridays as long
as I can help it)...Damn, I'm so good that I start to write the news
before it even happens. Malik
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