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 Posted: Tue, 4th Oct 2011 22:08 Post subject: MW 3 to be the last of its breed... |
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From neogaf
source : www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/video-gaming-industry-video-gamers-video/9/23/2011/id/37031?page=full
| Quote: | Activision’s (ATVI) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will be the biggest entertainment launch of all time upon its November 8 release.
How do I know this?
Because the last two Call of Duty games earned the very same distinction, so a three-peat is pretty likely.
However, Modern Warfare 3 will be one of the last hurrahs for the console-dominated gaming era as the world shifts toward new-school, alternative platforms.
The current generation of gaming platforms consists of consoles and handhelds from the likes of Nintendo, Microsoft (MSFT), and Sony (SNE).
Unfortunately, all three are being pushed aside by foes we couldn’t have imagined just five years ago -- and this means big things for investors.
Let’s start with mobile gaming before we discuss consoles.
According to a recent research report from Parks Associates, almost two-thirds of smartphone users play games on at least a monthly basis.
And how are smartphone sales doing? Gartner says they were up 74% to 108 million units in the second quarter.
The Nintendo DS, the best-selling handheld-gaming platform of all time, sold 146 million units in its whole lifetime.
Its successor, this year’s 3DS, won’t fare nearly as well. In fact, it was so poorly received at retail that it received a significant price cut in July, just four months after release. From first to worst in one generation? That’s just plain scary.
The appeal of smartphone (and tablet) games is pretty easy to grasp. They’re dirt-cheap or free, you can usually try before you buy, and they don’t require you to buy and carry another gadget around with you. |
| Quote: | Now let’s look at consoles.
A study commissioned by social-gaming company Kabam indicated that there is some overlap between the console and social-gaming populations.
The key finding, courtesy of VentureBeat:
About 82 percent of the hardcore social gamers also play console games. These hardcore social gamers also play for a longer period of time than casual social gamers. As the games get better on Facebook, social games (such as Kabam’s Glory of Rome...) are disrupting play on the traditional consoles.
One figure shows how social gaming growth is resulting in less time and money spent on other game platforms. About 27 percent of social game players who played games on other platforms say that they are spending less time on those platforms. They are also spending about 50 percent less money on console games. Kabam’s own customers report a 55 percent decline in their game play on other platforms. |
| Quote: | One could argue that weak sales of consoles and games simply means that we’re late in the cycle, where things normally slow before the next generation comes.
However, that would indicate a pretty weak cycle, considering that life-to-date sales of the Nintendo Wii, Sony PS3, and Microsoft Xbox 360 now stand at 194 million units, or 15% below the combined sales of last generation’s consoles.
How strong could the next cycle possibly be if this one is underperforming? |
Interesting.
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Hierofan
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| Posted: Tue, 4th Oct 2011 22:10 Post subject: |
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Bullshit, they're gonna milk it to death
they need dem moneyz and 12 year old fuckheads would kill their parents just for cawwaduddy
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| Posted: Tue, 4th Oct 2011 22:12 Post subject: |
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^^ this
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| Posted: Tue, 4th Oct 2011 22:13 Post subject: |
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what is this shit, world is flat, and is sitting on top of giant turtle, that rides on giant whale, and allies built pyramids,
all that makes more sense than random predictions posted on social gaming website, claiming how awesome is social gaming, and how everything else is dying
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| Posted: Tue, 4th Oct 2011 22:13 Post subject: |
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| garus wrote: | | Next stop. Future Warfare 1, 2 and 3. |
Maybe it'll be SOCIAL Warfare .. where you can kill your firends and family |
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| Posted: Tue, 4th Oct 2011 22:16 Post subject: |
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It'll be Facial Bookfare.
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Hierofan
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| Posted: Tue, 4th Oct 2011 22:18 Post subject: |
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| garus wrote: | | Hierofan wrote: | | garus wrote: | | Next stop. Future Warfare 1, 2 and 3. |
Maybe it'll be SOCIAL Warfare .. where you can kill your firends and family |
Let's hope it's a game where derps can kill themselves. |
Woaahh there, that's DLC territory  |
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helvete
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| Posted: Tue, 4th Oct 2011 22:20 Post subject: |
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the future of gaming is text based adventures on ereaders
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| Posted: Tue, 4th Oct 2011 22:23 Post subject: |
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You know,it isnt that scifii if you think about it .
Going from past experiences.
PC - ultimate gaming machine
Consoles over takes pc in popularity
PC - Becomes almost a niche (gaming i mean)
Now my guess
Console - Peak popularity
Social gaming overtakes console
Console - Needs to reinvents itself
 Spoiler: | pc gaming die  |
Buy those Zynga stocks!
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| Posted: Tue, 4th Oct 2011 22:43 Post subject: |
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What are you guys talking about? Milking? It's only part three. Atleast Activision knows a franchise should be ended before it goes stale.
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| Posted: Tue, 4th Oct 2011 22:48 Post subject: |
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I want medieval warfare!!!
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Can't wait to see the derpsolers raging hard when they're no longer the focus of the industry. They shall know our pain! 
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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| Posted: Wed, 5th Oct 2011 01:05 Post subject: |
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| Hierofan wrote: | | garus wrote: | | Next stop. Future Warfare 1, 2 and 3. |
Maybe it'll be SOCIAL Warfare .. where you can kill your firends and family |
or SOCIAL WELFARE where you can't be bothered doing shit apart from sitting in your mommas basement smoking pot
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| Posted: Wed, 5th Oct 2011 01:55 Post subject: |
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god you geeks need a life, any normal person plays on consoles , its you nerds that sit in your parents basement playing wow and pirating other shitty rpgs.
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| copecowboy wrote: | | god you geeks need a life, any normal person plays on consoles , its you nerds that sit in your parents basement playing wow and pirating other shitty rpgs. |
HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT I LIVE DOWN THERE?! AND HOW DID YOU KNOW I PLAY WOW?!
STLAKER1!!@11
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| Posted: Wed, 5th Oct 2011 02:24 Post subject: |
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 ignore failtroll?
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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Location: New Jersey
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| Posted: Wed, 5th Oct 2011 03:32 Post subject: |
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i wish i would live in new jersey too (to a certain degree)
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Now, I don't know what hardware costs in Poland, I guess it's cheaper because everything is stolen from Germany and resold... |
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WTF?! 
) gaming are slowly killing console industry.
