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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10485 |  RedRay (346) May 31, 2006 - 03:17 pm
| | $8500 for Quad SLI. Down from $10K for the Renegade. And those were with slower GPUs. Seems like $7k is a possibility by the 4th quarter. Maybe $6000 (again with faster updated GPUs) by the middle of 1st quarter 2007. Right in time for my move to Vista. That doesn't sound too bad actually. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10476 | RedRay (346) May 31, 2006 - 10:29 am
| Thing is, they'll never sell 4mm copies of Episode 3. The very nature of these episodic releases is that you automatically market to a smaller niche with each follow-up - because only those that bought all prior releases will buy the new one. So sales of Episode 3 will be lower than that of Episode 2 which will be lower than that of Episode 1.
Honestly 18 hrs of gameplay for $60 seems steep for me. At least with HL2 there was the additional value from multi-player content. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10476 | RedRay (346) May 31, 2006 - 10:25 am
| Thing is, they'll never sell 4mm copies of Episode 3. The very nature of these episodic releases is that you automatically market to a smaller niche with each follow-up - because only those that bought all prior releases will buy the new one. So sales of Episode 3 will be lower than that of Episode 2 which will be lower than that of Episode 1.
Honestly 18 hrs of gameplay for $60 seems steep for me. At least with HL2 there was the additional value from multi-player content. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10457 | RedRay (346) May 30, 2006 - 01:21 pm » Edited on May 30, 2006 - 01:22 pm
| Actually sounds like I was just about right. No money to Atari = zero incentive for them to continue with premium modules. Regardless of whatever money is owed/not owed, as people are finding out, there is always more hardball to play. If Atari is late on payments and Bioware wants to notch it up a level they can now release premium modules w/o Atari's permission citing Atari having breached its contract. Atari can then attempt to screw Bioware on NWN2, etc.
Or Bioware could have just short circuited the whole process by taking what should have been Atari's cut off premium modules and giving only half to Atari and keeping half to offset against receivables. That would have kept Atari in the financial loop while making some progress on the bad debt.
I will say however that your claim about non-payment of trade receivables is dubious. Not that I doubt Atari is in financial difficulty. That is well known. However before defaulting on trade receivables, any firm that ships product to retail will default on everything, and I mean EVERYTHING else, including payroll. Because if you are defaulting on trade receivables, retail outlets will not prepay money for your first shipment of a new t*i*tle. And we have seen no reports of Atari failing on its payroll. Moreover Atari is current on its revolver. Both signs it would not (yet) have defaulted on trade receivables. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10457 | RedRay (346) May 30, 2006 - 05:50 am
| | My guess is that the % revenue split to Atari from premium NWN modules is lower than the % revenue split to Atari from NWN2. If BioWare really wanted to continue with the premium NWN sales they could have offered to match the % revenue split to Atari. Then again for all we know, perhaps they are already negotiating with Atari behind the scenes. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10410 | RedRay (346) May 25, 2006 - 11:41 am
| At $250 I think the price positioning is good vs. PS3. Vs. X360, well it depends of course on where that system is priced come Xmas.
But here's a question. How is Wii price/value positioned vs. current gen games? Horsepower wise, it is about as powerful as the orig Xbox. Which goes for about $70 on eBay. Xbox has a hard drive, XBox Live and a ton more titles. Wii has (arguably) a better controller and a lot of legacy titles. It's not clear to me that on a value basis Wii is well positioned here. Flag this | Edit this post |
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