It’s Not About Homeruns, It’s About Having the Legs to Run It Out

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rasone77 said:

TWRoO said:

rasone77 said:

I just wanted to point out that the reason take2 is showing a 5 million dollar loss on that graph is that the effective dates on it are from April 1st 2007 to March 31st 2008. I full four weeks before GTA4 even came out.

Your analysis of GTA dropping off teh charts is good but you need a newer graph to compare the two properly.

Actually it's through the end of April... which includes the first few days (released 29th?) of GTAIV.... or approximately half it's current LTD sales.


http://www.edge-online.com/features/edges-top-20-publishers-2008?page=0%2C10

"for the 12 months ending 30 April 2008."

 

His chart clearly states ends 3/31/08. Besides, 2 days worth of sales is hardly indicitive of the profit loss of take 2

Actually the chart clearly states "Approximately...."

If you delve further into each page (representing the seperate companies) he states various dates on them.... most companies have their fiscal year end on March 31st so they are all fine, but some end at different times in the year, when it was a long way out I believe he either found data to represent the year ending March 31st, or he adjusted based on what he knows of the industry.

With Take 2 their year ends October 31st... but he recalculated based on a year ending April 30th (because half-year reports are probably available, wheras they won't give monthly reports so it would be guesswork to figure it out for end of March)

And 2 days of sales is very very important for a game like GTAIV if they happen to be the first 2 days.... those 2 days probably brought in over $300,000,000 in revenue alone.... so had the game been released just 2 days later the profit bar would be $300,000,000 lower than it is, and lower than the previous year.