E3 2013

[Sho]

move to the suburbs and be white with me dude, my internet's great and we can buy ipads and stuff :D

I'm game. I'm already semi whitewashed. :D I'ma be the blackest motherfucker out there, however. :O

[ringthree]

Well, at least I know you're a republican, what with your serious arguing for trickle-down economics.

Brilliant.

"That's the short term, guys! They'll only give you the finger in the short term, guys! Give em a few years of record profits and eventually you'll see them turn some of that back into the games!"

Yes. Let us all have a nice wait... and see.

LOL At Publishers willing to take risks. Maybe they will just start handing out money to studios too!

[Necronus]

You would think that but all companies care about these days is their stocks and helping shareholders. When profits go up they push that out the door in the form of larger dividends. The best that I have seen is increasing the budget on a game in the form of acquiring a more expensive license but companies continually try to cut corners to save costs. They will always strive to make games with the smallest team possible cutting back to the bare minimum.

I have friends at other game companies that have had the same experience.

I work in non-gaming software, and while its not the same industry it still shares similarities for obvious reasons. We used to be smaller but got bought by increasingly larger companies. Once you're run by a big company with shareholders the ideas of reinvesting money is over (we no longer have an R&D or Internal Development budgets). Each quarter and year are independently reviewed and much like that recently released game "Game Dev Tycoon" you're always competing against your previous score and can potentially screw yourself. If the head office says "we will make X% more profit per year" then doing really good sets the next bar in relation to your new top profit, which may actually set the bar too high. Then people get laid off and the process repeats anew.

And its all because shareholders are people who want to invest, pray the company makes short term high gain moves (which are potentially long term disasters), then sell ... not giving a damn about what happens afterwards. And to appease the next shareholder, you force your employees to repeat and repeat and repeat and POP goes the bubble.

[6souls]

In early morning trading Sony, EA, Take-Two are Up and Microsoft, Ubi, Activision are Down

Investors are reacting in early trading today, and Sony's positive buzz around PS4 continues

It's now the morning after. The dust is beginning to settle after yesterday's skirmish - a fight clearly won by Sony's uppercut punch to Microsoft on used games - but now investors are weighing in with early trading on the stock market. So far today the message is clear: Microsoft is down while Sony is up.

As of this writing, Microsoft stock (MSFT) has dipped nearly 1.7 percent while Sony's shares (SNE) have climbed over 1.7 percent. These percentages may not seem like a lot but it's important to remember that both Sony and Microsoft operate businesses that deal with a lot more than just video games. It's clear that yesterday's big E3 news is having an impact on investors' perceptions.

As for other gaming stocks, EA's and Take-Two's shares have climbed slightly while Ubisoft's and Activision's shares have dipped. Importantly, GameStop's shares have increased almost 9 percent on the news about consoles and used games.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...crosoft-slides

Market closes in a few minutes, it will be interesting to see how it all worked out.

[Deuce]

LOL At Publishers willing to take risks. Maybe they will just start handing out money to studios too!

But I like my 20 variations of Call of Duty and Halo...

[The Blackrose]

I'm surprised yet not that Ubisoft's stock dipped. A lackluster conference and the lockup of AC4 in the middle of the biggest of the 3 hardware conferences doesn't help.

[Necronus]

I'm surprised yet not that Ubisoft's stock dipped. A lackluster conference and the lockup of AC4 in the middle of the biggest of the 3 hardware conferences doesn't help.

Watchdogs, The Division, South Park ... they're in no danger of bad PR

[Exoduso]

OMG Nomura learn engrish

also, terrible questions are terrible. -_-

[Tajin]

I'm surprised yet not that Ubisoft's stock dipped. A lackluster conference and the lockup of AC4 in the middle of the biggest of the 3 hardware conferences doesn't help.

Take-Two didn't show shit really, crazy market.

[Jefe]

What am I watching? GT has a bunch of nerds w/ the stupidass JLO shades.

[Exoduso]

OMG will this retard ask Nomura about 2.5 already instead of asking him what he likes about Xehanort's zippers, etc.?

[Headspace]

OMG will this retard ask Nomura about 2.5 already instead of asking him what he likes about Xehanort's zippers, etc.?

They've already moved on to 3, right?

[Exoduso]

They've already moved on to 3, right?

Yes because she's a terrible interviewer.
"omg will summoning return??" -____-

[Headspace]

No one cares about 2.5 because 2 was god awful.

[6souls]

Sony - +2.17%
Microsoft - -1.78%
Nintendo - -2.35%
EA - -1.18%
Ubi - -1.42%

[Exoduso]

No one cares about 2.5 because 2 was god awful.

Ok bruh. Except the gameplay was probably the best.

[Exoduso]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...v=hPogSTwUREM#!

New FF XV gameplay vid going on right now.

[octopus]

dat behemoth

[ArchDizzle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...v=hPogSTwUREM#!

New FF XV gameplay vid going on right now.

Ok the part where they teamed up and cut the giants sword off and used it against him was badass.

[Akiyama]

Holy shit i want FF15 so bad right now