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Electronic Arts, the world’s largest video game publisher, on Monday warned that quarterly profits would miss targets because older games were not selling as well as expected in North America and Europe and hardware shortages were cutting into sales.
Electronic Arts’ U.S. market share on a dollar basis is roughly twice that of its closest competitor, Nintendo Co. Ltd. of Japan.
“Everybody in the industry has been surprised with ‘World of Warcraft,'” he said. “I can tell you from firsthand observation that there are people who haven’t played games in years who are now spending 15 to 20 hours a week playing ‘World of Warcraft’.”[/quote:bf37d10c42]
http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/21/technology/electronic_arts.reut/index.htm?section=money_latest
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To be completley honest I’m not really surprised by this announcement. However I think blaming it on the “impact of the hardware shortages” is just a way for them to save face. The simple truth is that most of EAs releases this year have been either rehashes of their older titles or simply inferior releases.
While I could go on about their EA Sports series, lets jsut say that its becoming quite obvious that people are getting tired of playing essentially the same game with a few bells and whistles each year. The FIFA series especially has taken a significant hit in recent times with the far superior Pro Evolution series hitting most of the major console and even the PC.
The introduction of the NFL Street series was never going to do much for them outside of the US. Also their other big name games were quite mediocre. The likes of Goldeneye: Rogue Agent, Lord Of The Rings: The Third Ag and Oddworld Stranger’s Wrath didnt do much to endear themselves to the public.
…I’m not going to even mention The Sims series, or as I like to call it, the series that just wont “FOAD”… :D
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It only took me a few seconds to figure out what “FOAD” meant…..not bad!
On the topic though, yeah..EA, hate them, scourge of the industry etc etc
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The simple truth is that most of EAs releases this year have been either rehashes of their older titles or simply inferior releases. [/quote:bfac06a2d1]
you could say that every year for EA!
having said that i think i will be buying my first ever EA game ever (bar theme park for the saturn) Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath, it seems to be very good
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Yea but it wasnt until now that people had an alternative to buying EAs sports games. Like I said Pro Evo has really cut into EAs FIFA sales and I’m sure other sports titles will follow suit.
As for Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath, well its a third/first person shooter which really betrays the series’ roots in my opinion. The original games were fantastic puzzle games and as far as I can remember when series’ jump to different genres the results can be unpredictable to say the least. Anyone remember Command And Conquer: Renegade? :D
It sems to be getting average reviews online so far, I’ll wait till I play a demo till I make my final judgement. :)
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i’m not a odd world fan, but edge gave it 9/10 and said its a bit like halo. i know people say edge talk out there ass sometimes but i find that they are the most reiable.
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i know people say edge talk out there ass sometimes[/quote:1c6e5d2836]
Sometimes? ;)
I think your best bet for reviews is to just read the reviews from the various top games sites. After reading them all you should get a good idea of how the game is. I wouldn’t thrust one single magazine….especially not Edge.
Just to clear things up I am referring to Edges reviews. Which I think are pants.
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whats a top online review website, most that i see give crap games good reviews and good games bad reviews.
seriously what ones do you use?
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Go to Gamerankings.com and you can see what various web and print mags gave a particular game. You can also click on the various web based mags and read their review.
For example for Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath, gets an average of 87.9%. Which is pretty darn good. Here is the link for it:
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while I’m personally a fan of EDGE reviews, Eurogamer have been very consistent and unbiased reviews… and Gamesrankings is used by publishers a hell of a lot for unbiased community views (wisdom of crowds and all that jazz)
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Yea Eurogamer is usually pretty spot on with reviews. The only thing i dont like is that they rate out of ten which can sometimes be a little inaccurate when comparing similar titles from the same genre. The sites of the big PC magazines usually post their reviews online aswell. My fave being PcZone.
However in my experience the best way to gauge a game is with a demo…
Oh and in other EA related news, seems that the NBA still dont want their titles exclusive to the NBA Live series…Clicky!
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Yeah I like PCZone myself.
Out of ten is fine once they use decimels….eg: 8.3 out of ten.But the worst is when they use a 5 star system.
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What about a system of “G” s!!!!
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Gamespot can kiss my “G”‘s*…….
*gonads
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What about a system of “G” s!!!! [/quote:e95f7073fc]
The new Oddworld? I say it deserves three and a half… -
What about that new Winnie the Pooh movie……….”Pooh’s Hoffalump Movie”.
I’ll get me coat….
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