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EA: You Have Some Explaining to Do - and Since We Are On the Subject, You too Midway

Can someone please tell me how a video game company, or any company, generates sales of $1.65 billion dollars, has a wonder hit known as FIFA 09′ which has almost sold 8 million copies - but loses $641 million dollars for the quarter? Don’t you think, if you were the CEO of a company, [...]

Before You Start Bashing PS3 Console Sales, You Might Want To Think About This…

There is too much focus on the fact that the PS3 is lagging behind the Xbox360 and the Wii in total console sales. I understand that Sony dominated the console sales last time around and being in 3rd place could be a cause for alarm, but there is a whole side to the picture [...]

DUKE IT OUT! Who Has Better 09′ Lineup?

_Activision Blizzard or Take Two Interactive. We all know that a new Call of Duty will be coming out AND a new Guitar Hero. Activision will also release a Tony Hawk that you can play without a controller, Wolfenstein, Wolverine, Transformers and James Bond among others. Take Two will release Grand [...]

Could MK vs. DC Save Midway?

_After a horrendous year for Midway - a year which saw the stock price peak at around 2.90 but only to drop 350% in value; the controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone sell 87% of his investment to a no-name private investor for $100,000; the company lay off 25% of their staff and shut down [...]

What is Take Two REALLY Worth?

_Last January, Take Two Interactive started the year around $18 per share only to drop to the high 13’s by the end of the month. Many investors, hoping this was a bottom of the price of the stock, took this as an opportunity to buy more shares in anticipation of the late April release [...]