It is not uncommon for any ‘movement’ or even ‘observer’ to lift themselves up as angels to look over everyone else with a God’s eye. Two groups form, one being the observer and the rest being the pitiful mass of humanity. From this vantage, it does look like Mankind is a single group, a single…
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Iwata talks manager success and application of talents
I am fascinated with business strategies of very successful companies especially the Silicon Age ones. Nintendo has a higher profit to employee ratio than any other company I know of, even Google, and their stock has skyrocketed to the top in Japan (above even Sony’s value). Here, you will find the President of Nintendo detailing his…
This Is Contra!
One must give due when a manly entertainment form comes out. It could be a movie (Gladiator, 300, etc.) or music. But there haven’t been too many manly games anymore filled with feminized heroes and heroines who dress in a bikini but carry giant guns/swords. If you don’t know about Contra, give it a read…
NPD Sales for August 2006
These are the total sales in America for last month of August according to NPD. Game Boy Advance 156k GameCube 41k Nintendo DS 278k PlayStation 2 262k PlayStation Portable 146k Xbox 9k Xbox 360 204k A few of the games: 360 Dead Rising 337k PS2 FINAL FANTASY VII: DIRGE OF CERBERUS 200k NDS BIG BRAIN…
Japanese Game Sales (Last Week of August)
The games industry continues to turn itself inside out. Investors demanded Nintendo to stockpile their DSes for the week when Final Fantasy 3 DS comes out. So Nintendo shipped out like half the number the week previous to this list of sales. Square-Enix was caught by surprise when their FF3 remake completely sold out. The…
US Game Sales for July (NPD)
One of the things I’ve been doing is studying the entertainment business. As video games are part of this, I figured I’d pass along the sales information. You would be surprised how many parallels there are between the book industry and the video game industry. I don’t really play any games (haven’t bought a console…
Return of the Big N?
In 2003, it was common to hear this: Nintendo’s weakness doesn’t just lie on the console front. Sony’s announcement of the PSP sent the company’s stock tumbling as investors saw it as a major threat to the successful Game Boy line. The Game Boy has seen its fair share of competition from other companies vying…
“Immense Logistical Challenge”
This is the exact phrase gamesindustry.biz used when Sony clarified its launch details for the PS3. The original plan was for Sony to have six million per launch. Now, it is to have two million for launch, two million shipped by the end of the year, and two million after that by time of the end…
Sony says: “To hell with you, Europe!”
SECOND EDIT: This gets worse. According to this… In the U.S., about 400,000 PlayStation 3 machines will be available when they go on sale Nov. 17. About 100,000 will be available on the Nov. 11 Japan launch date. The production problem is causing about a one-month delay that will reduce the company’s supply capacity by…
The HD Revolution that fizzled
In my attempts for financial and business education, I have been trying to recognize trends, coming and going, like an Industry Captain on his boat overlooking these waves and ripples. Since most things in business tend to be cyclical, it is highly profitable to place your business IN FRONT of a trend and let that…