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EA Sued Twice More over Use of DRM Technology

Craig, thanks for the added information and links.

Regarding sales rank -- Amazon publishes a number of different sales rankings...The article was referring to rankings in PC and Mac games categories as noted. There the game is #1 in simulation games (sub category), and holds top ten rankings in the PC and Mac categories. You're absolutely correct it's not in the top hundred overall when ranked across all platforms of video games. 109, is the latest I saw there.

Even so, the article should have read "a top seller" not "the top seller". Thank you for raising the point.

Will EA Change the Gaming Industry's Revenue Model?

Update: Not long after this article was originally published, EA announced their FIFA 2009 game will feature a similar dynamic gaming service.

For those tracking related information, the original article on Metue has been updated to cover the FIFA offering as well. the article is available here: metue.com/08-19-2008/d.../

Take Two's New GTA Game Sells Well; EA: “Nothing Has Changed”

Take Two is a company with a strong pipeline of games and a very loyal fan base. Invariably, EA's pending hostile offer is going to rankle some members of that group. A hostile takeover is, after all, by definition hostile.

Here, the initial three comments on this article, and the negative tone in a few of them, seems to reflect some of that frustration. It's clear at least two readers believe Take Two is not getting a fair valuation and that analyst Michael Pachter is not held in their high regard. Fair enough, but directing those criticisms to this article is off base.

This was not an article about valuation, nor Pachter. Nowhere does the article discuss whether EA's offer is fair, or reasonable. Nowhere does it discuss what Take Two might be worth. Nowhere did it take a position on whether Pachter is likely to be right or wrong.

Quite simply, this article was about two things: 1. Adding perspective to GTA IV sales data; and 2. looking at whether or not those sales results are likely to influence EA's current bid.

The research and analysis provided address just those two points. The reference to Pachter in context, as case in point, was an example of how analysts modeled for GTA IV sales before the retail release and how even the stellar sales results isn't changing their opinions. The point wasn't whether his analysis proves accurate but that the analysis didn't change despite GTA IV's sales performance.