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The Four Best Ways to Invest
If you want to invest in video games there are, essentially, four ways to do it…
- Investing in video game publishers.
- Investing in video game retailers.
- Investing in companies that make video game consoles.
- Investing in companies that make video game accessories.
sounds great and indeed will be a money maker. Where to buy it???
Hon Hai appears to be too illiquid to trade OTC (… er, make that pinkSheets) in the US. Hmmm, and diving to a new 52wkLo today.
To say that take Two (TTWO) are reliant on Grand Theft Auto 4 (which has sold about 10million) is completely ignorant of the writer of this article, Take Two and it's development houses have many different games in development and franchises in sports. Not to forget Bioshock, and it's proposed two sequels. If you ask me Take Two's stock should of gone up after the EA deal went through.
And to say Sony has an incredible gaming division when the Xbox360 and Wii outsell it week in week out, and they release a minimal amount of in-house games. more stupidity.
And, you forgot ZeniMax media who just released a game, that made them about $300 million. I wont bother with the rest about it, find out for yourselves.
To the previous commenter:
1. Approx 2.5 million copies of bioshock have been sold and the sales force behind it is disappearing [though it did make a nice push when the ps3 version came out]. Grand Theft Auto IV has sold 10 mil and is still going VERY strong for a game that was released in april.
2. http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php
That chart may interest you. The PS3 and 360 are actually quite close on weekly sales and the PS3 has been leading in 2008. The Wii is the casual gamer's console and will as such sell more for the time being due to the high demand for a cheap console with simple yet fun games. With the coming recession, the wii will of course still be strong, but since the 360 tries to focus on both the casual market and the core market, it fails to meet all of the demands of the respective market's [though it does meet most for the time being]. The PS3 has become the core gamers console and has been meeting the demands of its market. With an economic downturn, the consumer's are probably going to want the console that best meets their needs.
3. Zenimax is not a publicly traded company and would have been included in this article if it was, this is the >investors< guide.
Hope that clears up some stuff.
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