Hello, fellow industry people. This past month the industry was rocked a bit by the Micro Transaction Scandal at Electronic Arts, where EA’s venerable Star Wars: Battlefront II went from being a largely micro-transaction based revenue product to suddenly NOT, and where Take Two recently announced that ALL its future games would have micro-transactions in them. But first, … Read moreA Discussion on Micro-transactions

Hello, fellow industry people. This week – after getting a chance to sit and debate the merits of whether the Switch was going to be successful or not – I thought about what it is that Switch just gets absolutely right. But first, let’s review the situation while we’re 5-by-5. Nintendo’sSwitch console has sold well over … Read moreNintendo Switch and the Mobile Market