INTERACTIVE NEWS
(C) Spencer
Since then I have, that is, Spencer, will try in every
newspaper MAXIMUM lead heading "online news", in who tried,
without hanging the extra b $ #% on the ears, to acquaint you
with recent and not so recent, but still computer news that I
get dostoyanno of the mysterious wilds besika.
Well, now is not a child without bending your toes
comma, proceed to the serial presentation interaktivschiny:
News from 3DO
A former developer of the technology game consoles, and now
simple independent publisher, the company 3DO, was officially
license from Sony to produce games for PlayStation, but
that have been officially declared the company's plans to
support the format of the Nintendo 64 with his works. The first
game, which may go on sale later this year will be largely
converted to products with a game console 3DO, and just not
acted in the sale of game system M2.
Electronic Arts will publish games from Accolade
The largest independent publisher of gaming products, the
company Electronic Arts has announced plans to publish another
American game developer and former publisher Accolade. The
deal, prisoner for 13 years, gives EA the rights to all games
of the last, list which includes such popular series of sports
games like HardBall, Test Drive and Jack Nicklaus.
Statistics
The other day editorial MAXIMUMA became available
information on the approximate ratio of sales for the modern
game (32-64 bits) systems over the past two years among 20
major U.S. publishers:
Publisher Market Share Market Share
in 1995 in 1996
1.Nintendo 0 4.18
2.Sony 27.4 16.3
3.Electronic Arts 9.3 14.9
4.Acclaim 5.9 7.9
5.Sega 16.8 7.5
6.Midway 2.7 7.3
7.Namco 9.2 4.9
8.Capcom 0 3.6
9.Eidos/US Gold 0.4 2.5
10.Crystal Dynamics 5.1 2.1
11.Konami 1.2 1.8
12.Interplay 2.0 1.8
13.Mindscape 1.0 0.9
14.Playmates 0 0.9
15.3DO 3.5 0.8
16.Virgin 0.7 0.6
17.LucasArts 0.3 0.5
18.Panasonic 2.1 0.5
19.Spectrum Holobyte 0.3 0.5
20.ASCII 0 0.4
For symmetry, let us humbly rasklanitsya and retire to their
cases for some time, it's not far off the next MAXIMUMa.
