Tech Stories - Oct 23 2008 10:50AM

By: Bruce Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:48 AM

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Xbox fanboys run amok. I have written on here before about fanboys and their uncontrolled and childish online behaviour. Now they are targeting Metacritic. LittleBigPlanet has a Metacritic of 95% after 28 reviews. The Xbox fanboys obviously see this as a threat because 2194 user scores are currently coming to an average of 6.3 out of ten. And it isn’t even available to play yet!!
“Atari president Phil Harrison has told GamesIndustry.biz that he believes Sony took “absolutely the right decision” in recalling LittleBigPlanet over the controversial references made to the Qur’an.” Which makes me even more convinced that they should not have withdrawn it.
Midway in poo. A year ago its share price was low but it has slipped 67% since despite a much needed management shake up. You wonder how they are still in business with $580 million in losses since 1999 (estimated). Surely in this current climate they have to be prime takeover material? It just cannot go on like this.
Wii Fit on track to outsell GTA IV this year. And it cost far less to develop. And makes far more profit per unit. If they haven’t already, everyone in the industry should now realise that we have a new paradigm. Games are entertainment (and more) for everyone now. The old certainties are gone.
If you still needed evidence of the move towards MMOs then here it is. Electronic Arts have just invested a massive fortune in Warhammer Online and already it is doing well. And now they have announced that they have had another MMO under development, this time Star Wars : The Old Republic from Blizzard. These things cost huge amounts to develop and run. Which is more than matched by the immense profits they can make when they succeed commercially. But there is a high failure rate.

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