Video Gaming Stocks...Electronic Arts etc
DirtBag©
Arts. Seems that they have a good lineup for Christmas sales.
I know that Fluent Entertainment is another that I have heard has some good
games coming. Anyone a game player here?
Charles Libengood
"Johnny Angel" <an...@heaven.com> wrote in message
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> Afraid I won't be much help. The only Playstation2 games of which I'm
> a devotee are the Ratchet and Clank series, produced by Insomniac
> Games which is privately held (I checked a long time ago...;-). The
> rest of what's out there for PS2 just downright requires greater
> dexterity and faster reactions than this aged body possesses.
>
> As for PC Adventure/Puzzle-solving games which are more my speed, this
> past weekend I purchased the most recent addition to the Myst series
> (remember Myst?), "Uru, the Path of the Shell", and like a good little
> m.i.s.er, researched the company, UbiSoft. They're listed on the
> Paris exchange and have lost about 1/2 their value in the last six
> months, currently trading at just over 18 euros. Their future looked
> none too good from some of the literature so I stopped researching.
> They are gravitating to online gaming as is/has much of the industry.
> The game you purchase at BestBuy often serves as the local at-home
> hook to get you to visit the website and try the online version. One
> creates a user account, pays a subscription, logs in and plays
> against... the rest of the online world. Whether UbiSoft will rebound
> as a result, I dunno.
>
> I'd recommend you look for the people collecting the subscription
> fees, as that's where the money is going to be. I used to work with a
> 20-something kid who spent nearly all of his free time in online
> gaming forums. Everquest was his pet thing; I think that's Sony (Sony
> Online Entertainment).
>
> JA, you betcha.
ManWorld42
A lot of gaming companies have gone out or are going out of business.
The ones I know of are: 3DO, Interplay and Acclaim. 3DO and Interplay
both have some successful titles not too long ago. The thing that
surprises me is how fast these companies go from boon to bust.
Another company Take2 was said to have some trouble on one of the TV
programs. Not too long ago, some other TV program said that Take2 was
a great stock.
As for Electronic Arts, I heard otherwise. Anyway, gaming is a tough
business.
Incidentally, if you do some searching on Amazon, you will find that a
lot of best selling games are from Microsoft. It is probably
difficult to compete with Microsoft in any software business.
DirtBag©
"ManWorld42" <ManWo...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I suspect that your correct in that it is a risk busyness unless you
understand what it is the gamers want, and be ahead of the curve on the
currrent games that are being hyped. I think our kids are a good source of
what is cool in game software if you have kids in that 'gaming age'.
Electronic Arts is tops I hear. That vice series was a huge seller... I
remember my son talking me into buying him a copy when it first came out and
I shold have taken pause and paid attention...