A strong quarter doesn’t erase the ill-advised AMA on 8chan, however.
Paradox continues to expand its portfolio beyond grand strategy and the PC platform and seems to be working out great.
Although King remained mostly the same, both Activision Publishing and Blizzard took significant hits to segmented net revenue this quarter, leading to an overall decline for Activision Blizzard.
Resident Evil 2, Monster Hunter World, and Devil May Cry V are the largest contributors to the publisher’s successful quarter.
The publisher has increased full-year guidance ahead of a hotly anticipated holiday sales season.
Empires & Puzzles and Merge Dragons! were huge contributors as Zynga’s live services continue to drive record results. COO Matt Bromberg chats with GameDaily about the growth strategy.
After a somewhat promising start to 2019’s fiscal year, Sega announced that it would be focusing on further growing its digital, mobile, and retail games offers in preparation for new ‘platforms and services.’
Apex Legends is primed for growth, as well. Digital net bookings now represent 76% of EA’s business; analysts remain optimistic for EA’s long-term prospects.
Nintendo has a powerful holiday lineup coming, and it’s already off to a great start thanks to Super Mario Maker 2 moving 2.42 million copies in its first three days.
And, for the first time ever, digital has outsold physical media for PS4.