http://www.digitalbattle.com/2008/04/22/analyst-game-sales-to-drop-in-fall/ Game News For the Masses Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:04:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.digitalbattle.com/2008/04/22/analyst-game-sales-to-drop-in-fall/comment-page-1/#comment-45986 Michael Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:30:51 +0000 http://www.digitalbattle.com/?p=11100#comment-45986 What you seem to fail to recognize is the context within which Higginbotham was speaking. As a stock analyst he is interested in growth and increase in growth and not a repetition of last years results. So when he claims that said up and coming games will fail to make a splash what he's really trying to say is they will not massively outsell GTA4 and Wii Fit. As for MGS4 this is a case in point; I bought it the day of its release at a local Gamestop in the afternoon without a pre-order and they had a bunch of them in stock still; the same can not be said for my endeavors to obtain a copy of GTA4 the day after its release. What you seem to fail to recognize is the context within which Higginbotham was speaking. As a stock analyst he is interested in growth and increase in growth and not a repetition of last years results. So when he claims that said up and coming games will fail to make a splash what he’s really trying to say is they will not massively outsell GTA4 and Wii Fit. As for MGS4 this is a case in point; I bought it the day of its release at a local Gamestop in the afternoon without a pre-order and they had a bunch of them in stock still; the same can not be said for my endeavors to obtain a copy of GTA4 the day after its release.

]]> http://www.digitalbattle.com/2008/04/22/analyst-game-sales-to-drop-in-fall/comment-page-1/#comment-43548 Analyst: Game Sales To Drop In Fall Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:45:52 +0000 http://www.digitalbattle.com/?p=11100#comment-43548 [...] DigitalBattle wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt According to Robert Higginbotham, one of the many analysts working for Goldman Sachs, a lack of quality titles in the second half of this year is going to see video game sales drop. Wiii Fit and GTAIV are the only ‘killer titles’ set to come out this year supposedly, which is likely to lead to a lack of sales for the industry. Apparently Fallout 3, Fable 2, LittleBigPlanet, Killzone 2, Metal Gear Solid 4, Gears of War 2, Halo Wars, The Force Unleashed and Resident Evil 5 are all going to fail t [...] [...] DigitalBattle wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt According to Robert Higginbotham, one of the many analysts working for Goldman Sachs, a lack of quality titles in the second half of this year is going to see video game sales drop. Wiii Fit and GTAIV are the only ‘killer titles’ set to come out this year supposedly, which is likely to lead to a lack of sales for the industry. Apparently Fallout 3, Fable 2, LittleBigPlanet, Killzone 2, Metal Gear Solid 4, Gears of War 2, Halo Wars, The Force Unleashed and Resident Evil 5 are all going to fail t [...]

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