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What's killing the video-game business?

http://www.slate.com/id/2210732/

by brianmckenzie • 17 years ago

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vegai• 17 years ago

Riiiight.

"Last weekend, Valve decided to do an experiment with Left 4 Dead. Last weekend's sale resulted in a 3000% increase over relatively flat numbers. It sold more last weekend than when it launched the game. WOW. That is unheard of in this industry. Valve beat its launch sales. Also, it snagged a 1600% increase in new customers to Steam over the baseline."

and

"6:56 PM - Looking at a third-party game, it saw increases of 36,000% with a weekend sale. Oh. Em. Gee. Okay, Gabe is starting to convince me that PC at retail is going to die very soon."

http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/693342/Live-Blog-DICE-2009...

So, Activision, Electronic Arts: What's killing you? YOUR REFUSAL NOT TO SUCK

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