It will limit the success if they're not materially better than the current-generation games. The analogy is, do you buy a new PC if you don't have a reason to? You just don't do it. |
It's killing the market. They did a masterful job of marketing the box and an abysmal job of managing the supply chain. |
It's like a shifting of loan repayment responsibility, collateralized by Midway shares. |
Microsoft's first-mover advantage is eroding if it takes them very long to get the first 5 million boxes out. If 4 million show up in the month of June and Sony launches in the month of June, there's not much of an advantage (for Microsoft). |
More consumers than any of us expected are slowing their purchase of software, waiting for the next-gen consoles. |
Most of the press are fixated on video games. They think Sony is only in a battle with Microsoft. Sony is in a battle to make as much money as possible for the privilege of putting entertainment content in a Sony format. They already have a large group of people paying them for video games. They want a large group of studios paying them for movies. |
My guess is they want to sell high- definition discs. You want to get the high-definition monitor owners drooling. It's clever marketing. |
Nobody at Take-Two will have the guts to put any hidden sexual content in any game so people are making a bigger deal out of this than is there, ... At the end of the day, the stock is really cheap and the discount makes no sense. |
Nobody comes in to bid on that. They wait for the body to stop twitching, then swoop down and pick the meat off the carcass. |
Nothing fundamentally drove [the stock] up, and nothing fundamentally drove it down. It's Redstone. |
NPD US retail video game software sales data for the January quarter implies that Take-Two's sales are down 40 percent compared with the prior year quarter. |
One reason they didn't make my number was because they added so much to the reserves. |
Spielberg is a magnet to bring in talent. He will get all of Hollywood to start thinking about video games. Now you've got the guy who's got a guaranteed $300-million box office thinking about it. It's a big plus. |
Take-Two has always been a 'trust us' story. We think that Take-Two has become a 'show me' story. |
Take-Two is cheap and Atari is really cheap. Investors mistakenly look at the group as either being big and going to thrive or small and going to go broke. |