Sony’s made a huge leap in this week’s video game console sales as it’s up +187% according to Video Game Chartz (for Japanese market). Nintendo DS and Wii are leading the pack, but PS3 and PSP are just behind. Most interesting, Sony PS3 has sold almost 2.5 times more units than XBOX 360 in [...]
Category: Media & Entertainment
I’m sure these little tidbits warrant a larger posting (for each of them) but I wanted to get them out into the open as they are/were on my mind: Is it me or have you been receiving a significant volume of LinkedIn and Facebook invitations lately? Jason Calcannis and Fred Wilson have both posted about [...]
Fox 11 Los Angeles did a 3 minute clip regarding an emerging game, MapleStory, which focuses on how gamers are in a craze about the game. Some gamers are spending $50/week in virtual items for the game and others are stealing money from their folks credit cards to pay for new goods. Take a peak [...]
I’m going to be devoid of the blogosphere starting today thru Sunday as some of my best friends are taking me out on my bachelor party. I have no idea where I’m going or what I’m doing – but in 30 minutes, they will be arriving to pick me up. Stories & Pics to follow…. [...]
For the first time this decade, Activision edges out Electronic Arts as the #1 third party game publisher. For those of you who don’t know what a 3rd party publisher is, it’s essentially a publisher who isn’t attached to major game console or platform. According to NPD data, Activision posted $387.8 million in sales from [...]
Microsoft reported that it has generated about $125M off of virtual asset sales through it’s proprietary Xbox Live platform. This equates almost $18 per user, or 6 transactions of precisely $2.78. What I find interesting is that the market today is all about the hardcore gamer purchasing virtual goods (currency, characters, etc) through services like [...]
In one of John Riccitiello’s first in-depth interviews since taking the helm of the world’s largest game publisher [EA], he speaks openly about a lack of innovation of building and monetizing games. He says EA and others need both to push more aggressively beyond traditional audiences to court “casual” consumers and to experiment more with [...]
