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February Game Sales Flop
Some financial news from the gaming industry today; NPD Analysts predict that game sales for February will be much lower than hoped-for, down eleven percent from last year. Take-Two Interactive, the publisher for studios Rockstar and Firaxis, posted a loss of $29.1 Million in their first quarter, which ended at the end of January. Not everything was doom and gloom. Newly linked Bioware/Pandemic did great in 2005, with more than 28 million games sold. From that 1up piece: "Neither company has laid out much of their plans for the next-generation consoles, though BioWare's brief showing of their planned Xbox 360 trilogy Mass Effect suggests the companies are poised to be just as ambitious on the coming consoles as ever before. "
I'm growing increasingly bitter towards them. Yes, Dragon Age is still supposedly coming for the PC, but other than that, it seems as if they have completely abandoned PC gamers for X-BOX land. Jade Empire will never be coming our way, and it seems as if the same will be true of Mass Effect - even though it's a first-person oriented game.
The super robot destroyer machine has arrived. I welcome myself to the boards! prepare to be destroyed.
"The Super Robot Destroyer Machines are here! RUN!!!"