Capcom Shifts Strategy

APRIL 19, 2013 • Changing consumer preferences in favor of mobile and online game platforms has led Capcom Co., Ltd. to announce a serious restructuring of its product plans. Capcom reviewed its business expansion strategy and restructured its game development organization to account for what it characterized as its own delayed response to the shift to digital media delivery being seen throughout the video game industry. Furthermore, the company admitted a decli.....

Nintendo eShop Gains Traction

APRIL 17, 2013 • During a press conference held in San Francisco, Nintendo of America executive vice president Scott Moffitt said the 3DS title Fire Emblem: Awakening had sold 240,000 units in the U.S. since its Feb. 4 release. Moffitt went on to say that 80,000 of those sales had been digital through Nintendo’s eShop. More than 40,000 of those eShop customers came back to purchase a map pack. Furthermore, Moffitt says 11% of all Nintendo first-party 3DS t.....

Electronic Arts Facebook Games Are Retired

APRIL 15, 2013 • Maxis utilized a post on the EA blog to announce that three Electronic Arts Facebook titles would be shut down on June 14: Sims Social, SimCity Social and Pet Society. The reason for terminating the games was a continued fall off in the number of players and player activity. Electronic Arts will realign its presence on Facebook around games from its PopCap unit. In addition, players of the Maxis games that are closing will receive a special offe.....

Disney Axes LucasArts Game Development

APRIL 3, 2013 • Acquired as part of the $4.05 billion buyout of LucasFilm by the Walt Disney Co. last October, LucasArts’ new owners have decided the game division will no longer internally develop new titles moving forward. The status of new content under development, such as Star Wars 1313 and Star Wars: First Assault, is unclear as the developers working on the titles have been laid o.....

Total War Arena Coming

MARCH 29, 2013 • The online battle arena segment is getting rather crowded. In addition to Defense of the Ancients (DotA) and League of Legends (LoL), a slew of challengers are in the works. Among the competitive online F2P titles in development are DotA 2 (Valve), Bl.....

SimCity Limps Out of Gate

MARCH 11, 2013 • Many consumers who purchased SimCity after its release last Tuesday discovered that they were unable to access the city building game, or found their experience hobbled if they did manage to get the title running on their computers. Amazon.com went so far as to suspend digi.....

Strong & Weak Among the Video Game Market Players

MARCH 6, 2013 • Technology is an inherently disruptive undertaking. At the very least that disruption is relentlessly incremental, and at most, seriously transformative. The iPhone, for example, made its debut back in 2007, elevated smartphones up to a must-have status with consumers, and as a result, permitted Apple to muscle itself into the games business. Looking forward, DFC thought it would be useful to take a hard look .....

Battling for Entertainment Dollars: 7 Major Companies in the Video Game Market

MARCH 5, 2013 • As we discussed recently in Can Sony & Nintendo Recover? one of the great ironies of 2012 was that Sony and Nintendo were not able to take advantage of strong consumer excitement over digital devices.  Hardware is clearly not a commodity and this should be good news for game hardware manufacturers that specialize in providing unique, proprietary systems.  Unfortunately, w.....

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