This past week, Newzoo released its latest report on the top 100 countries by game revenue and the big news was that for the first time, China was number one. This has been a pretty regular thing in the news for the last few years, where there is a headline like: “China is now the […]
I remember when Metal Gear Solid V (MGSV) was announced as 2 parts: Ground Zeroes (GZ) as a prequel of the game and then the Phantom Pain as the “full” actual game, some time afterwards, I decided to wait to play GZ until the Phantom Pain came out, so that I could play both segments back-to-back. […]
A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced it would forego this year’s Tokyo Game Show. Given this event is about as big as E3, many speculate this signals Microsoft’s exit from Japan. However, all might not be lost for Microsoft in the country! If Microsoft really still wants to win in Japan and is willing to […]
With this year’s E3 having just wrapped up, I thought it would be interesting to revisit the blog post I wrote a year ago about how the Best Console Game at E3 correlates to sales. Based on historical data, it seemed like between winning the Best Console Game award and the game’s actual release date, […]
Time flies when you are busy analyzing vthe video games industry!! I was meaning to do a new blog post for the longest time and am happy I am finally getting around to this! Given the title of this blog post, you might be a bit confused about what hockey is doing in the headline […]
A few weeks ago, EA announced that they would be replacing Tiger Woods with Rory McIlroy as the name golfer for their PGA series. This had me wondering what sorts of implications this could have on the future of the series. Luckily because EA has published a PGA Tour game every year, and PGA Tour […]
In Nintendo’s most recent earnings report, they mentioned how Amiibo sales have been coming along quite well. Given Amiibo was the 3rd brand to come out with a toy-video game integration product (after Skylanders and Disney Infinity), is basically a copy of Skylanders and is still doing well, it led me to wonder, what if another […]
Recently Nintendo announced that it is exiting the Brazilian market. At first glance one might think this is totally crazy since Brazil has the world’s seventh largest economy. However, some important things to note about the video game industry in Brazil: Import tariffs are HUGE in the country. Best explained by this handy slide from […]
For most of this generation of the console wars, PlayStation 4 had been the runaway leader in sales despite sharing many of the same games as the Xbox One. The biggest (and most obvious) differentiator between the two systems was their price: the PS4 was about $400 while the Xbox One was about $500. Meanwhile […]
This week, Nintendo had another big surprise for the public but this time it was a good surprise, that they made a profit in Q2 when analysts had expected a loss. Good for Nintendo! With this news, my friend Can recommended it might be a good time to revisit my initial Wii U analysis so […]
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