Take-Two Interactive Software’s Q2 financial report is in and the results are impressive. Net revenue and digitally delivered GAAP revenue were both up by over 70% year-on-year, and recurrent user spending was up by 32%, which resulted in the company raising its financial outlook for fiscal 2020.
Take-Two attributes its success to the strong performance of Borderlands 3, Red Dead Redemption 2, and NBA2K20, providing an update on total units sold for each during today's conference call.
2K Games is preparing to reveal the sequel to a "beloved franchise" at Summer Game Fest, with fans speculating that it might be Borderlands 4, BioShock 4, Mafia 4, and numerous other popular games.
After its latest games didn't meet sales targets, Square Enix is going multiplatform but the company's track record isn't convincing.
Square Enix been multiplatform for decades, a few exclusively-deals doesn't make them any less multiplatform.
SE needs to go all in optimization. Broken PC ports won't help its case, especially with big releases like mainline Final Fantasy
It's actually simple. What doesn't inspire confidence is Square allocating their budgets on the wrong projects such as Forspoken, Avengers, Babylons Fall and Foamstars.
Square has always been multiplatform since PS3/360 days which 80 % of their games are. People kick up a fuss over PS exclusivity but not Nintendo which has more exclusive projects console exclusive from Square.
FF16 has done ok but not enough to fix the blunders that the past mistakes Square has made with some of their projects. FF7 Rebirth is unclear we'll see a PC release for sure so it's hard to say so far not as good as they would of liked.
Then again unrealistic expectations. If it weren't for Sony these games would at least had another 2 years development time. So some people need to be realistic in that regard.
Square Enix just really need to revise its expectations. Maybe consider a change in strategy on dev end as well. Multiplat will help for sure but only good games that are marketed well will sell
Microsoft's Activision subsidiary announced today that it is opening a new game development studio to take advantage of the huge talent pool growing in Poland. It'll be the second Activision studio based in the region, joining Infinity Ward Krakow, although this studio is, in fact, not working on Call of Duty.
Borderlands 3 was hugely successful that puts most other looter shooters to shame
Those digital sales figures are really impressive.
Grand Theft Auto V shipped over 115 million
I’d be happy for that success if it didn’t mean Rockstar wouldn’t make multiple games a generation like any self respecting publisher should
I imagine Red Dead will get to 35/40 million if it gets a next gen release, especially if they improve the online.
Wait how can a single game shipp over 115 million copies?? How's that possible?? Or is that some sort of typo?