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Analysts expect Grand Theft Auto 5 to launch in Take-Two's upcoming financial year (ending March 31, 2013), despite an increasingly crowded release schedule for the publisher. Yesterday Take-Two delayed Max Payne 3's release date by two months to May 2012, pushing it from the last quarter of the current financial year to the first quarter of the next, which is already packed with big releases.In the 12 months beginning April 1, 2012, Take-Two currently plans to launch Max Payne 3, BioShock Infinite, Borderlands 2, Spec Ops: The Line, XCOM and XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
National Alliance Capital Markets analyst Mike Hickey told Game Informer: "It seems unlikely that Rockstar Games would launch both Max Payne 3 and GTA 5 in the month on May. Therefore, we have shifted our original expectation for GTA V to launch in May 2012, into the Company's 2013 fiscal second-half operating period.
"We remain confident GTA V will ship in calendar year '12, based on an assumption that Rockstar is using a sub 12 month marketing window for GTA V and the company's fiscal 2013 performance guidance, which would suggest the game's release."
EEDAR's Jesse Divnich said: "[Take-Two] are still saying they will achieve $2.00 earnings per share in fiscal 2013, so Grand Theft Auto V has to come out by March 2013."
Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter commented: "Although GTA V may still launch in FY:13, predicting the actual release date is difficult due to a crowded pipeline.
"I don't know if [Max Payne's delay] means a full year gap, but very likely six months. Too bad, as I think Grand Theft Auto V would benefit from giving Call of Duty some breathing room."
Analysts including Pachter and Hickey previously predicted a summer 2012 release for GTA 5.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare developer Infinity Ward seems to be searching for staff to work on a next-generation sequel. The studio has put out a job ad for a senior animator, who it says should have "an interest in working with next-generation technologies".The listing drops no other hints as to what it's working on, but PS3 and 360 approach their seventh birthdays, any mention of 'next-gen' conjures up tantalising thoughts.
Wii U is, of course, just around the corner and could be considered 'next-gen', if not the big technical leap we'll be expecting with the next PlayStation and Xbox consoles.
It's also not the first time a next-generation Call of Duty has been teased: Black Ops developerTreyarch also put out a job ad last year specifically calling for a senior platform engineer to help bring the game "to a new console".
Again, Wii U or Vita would seem like the most likely consoles in question, but could preparations for the next Sony and MS powerhouses have begun?
2012 is going to be a fascinating year as far as handhelds are concerned. iOS continues to screw with the marketplace, for one thing, helping to democratise development while also redefining how much audiences expect to pay for a game. Meanwhile, the 3DS appears to have finally hit its stride - or has it? - and Sony's getting in on the action with the almost implausibly lavish Vita. Is there still enough room for everybody?
If this article seems more preoccupied with a single issue than the rest of Eurogamer's trends pieces, I suspect it's because the handheld industry is similarly preoccupied. Weird as this would have sounded five years back, Nintendo and Sony feel like the underdogs in this brave new-ish world of Apps and freemium releases. That leads us to some interesting questions.
Is there still a place for the bespoke handheld console that allows developers to take a risk on big-budget projects that sell for £30? Will the increasing clutter of the App Store begin to deter teams from putting all their chips on iOS? Will Solipskier ever run properly on the ultra-cheap HTC Wildfire S that I really shouldn't have bought when I lost my iPhone? Will Dale Cooper escape from the Black Lodge and sort things out with Heather Graham?
I haven't got a clue, which is why I've spent the last few weeks firing off emails to some of the smartest people in handheld gaming and asking what they think. Here's what I found out. (Spoiler: Coop isn't going anywhere.)
The only constant is change
Heraclitus said that, shortly after his match-three variant Greek Balls of Fire failed to chart on the iPhone Top 50. Most of the people I've been speaking with seemed to agree with him: this is a seismic period for the industry. But is it exciting seismic, like a kegger party in an earthquake testing lab, or is it frightening seismic, like a 9.3 that leaves you trapped and bleeding under a heavy refrigerator while your Alsatian decides that you're already dead and begins eating your feet?
"It is more than exciting," says Giordano Contestabile, PopCap's franchise business director for Bejeweled, when I ask him about the proliferation of handhelds. "It's reshaping the whole industry, and making it much bigger! If we assume that 'handhelds' include any portable gaming device, including smartphones and tablets, we are now looking at an addressable audience of more than 500 million potential players, many of whom weren't playing games before. Additionally, most of those devices are connected, opening the possibility of cross-platform, social and online gaming, therefore leading to an explosion of innovation and opportunities." Broadbent describes Cloud God as 'a sort of love-letter to the time I spent in Japan.' Loosely based upon Japanese folklore, the action game features gorgeous Gary Lucken art and a smart combo system. It will be arriving on PSP Minis soon.
He's a fan, then. Matt Bozon, the creative director of WayForward Technologies, shares his enthusiasm, but also sounds a note of caution. "Handheld games on average are becoming much more expensive and time-consuming to create, requiring much higher resolution visuals and larger teams all around," he tells me. "This could send a lot of smaller devs towards iOS, and force experienced console devs into unfamiliar handheld territory."
Rhodri Broadbent, the founder of Dakko Dakko, which created the wonderful PSP Mini The 2D Adventures of Rotating Octopus Character and is now hard at work on a 2012 follow-up called Floating Cloud God Saves The Pilgrims, is more excited by the positive effects of all this competition. "My biggest hope is definitely that a healthy rivalry between Vita and 3DS excites the entire handheld industry," he says. "I'd really like to see more developers who might have hitherto chosen to focus on 'bigger' experiences on home consoles try their hands at handheld game development.
"Now that portable gaming tech is significantly less restrictive (performance-wise) than ever before, I see huge potential for developers to play on the more personal, intimate experience of having the whole game system in your hands wherever you are. Handhelds have for a long time been viewed as for the kids to play on the back seat on long journeys, as 'throwaway', but I think that is to hugely undervalue what portability, accessibility and local wireless play with individual screens can bring to the gaming experience."
Vita and 3DS
Let's try and get a little more specific now. Nintendo and Sony both have new hardware in the marketplace. In both cases, they've opted to ignore Apple's approach, focussing primarily on games and controlling the sales channels.
Despite a slightly wonky launch in Japan, Vita remains an unknown quantity. Anecdotally, everyone I've spoken to who has played around with one ends up very excited about it, but there are lingering questions over whether audiences are going to pay £40 for games when they have recently been led to believe that sort of thing should only cost 69p.
Paul Rustchynsky, game director for Motorstom RC, appreciates Vita's clarity of purpose. "As a gamer it's so exciting that PS Vita is first and foremost a contemporary
Sega has officially launched its full online Sonic the Hedgehog store.
The site went live on a test basis last month. It features a range of merchandise including figures, stationary, clothes, posters and DVDs. The range will widen throughout the year, too.
It includes a loyalty system, too, which awards Reward Points for every purchase that can be redeemed against future orders.
Furthermore, customers can get 15 per cent off any order until the end of the month by entering the following code – JANSALE15. There’s no limit on the number of times the cade can be used.
“Sonic the Hedgehog’s fan base has grown continually over the past twenty years and the demand for branded merchandise has increased along with his popularity” SEGA Europe’s head of brand licensing Sissel Henno stated.
“By teaming up with RHM Solutions we are able to provide something for all Sonic fans with an online store that includes fashionable apparel, collectible figurines, stylish stationery and much more. We are looking forward to seeing how the store evolves and how consumers can engage with the brand in a new way.”
Sales of PlayStation Vita have fallen by 57 per cent in Japan week on week, with just 18,361 units sold in the week ending January 15, according to Media Create data passed on by Andriasang.
This is the third successive week that Vita sales have fallen since launch, when 324,859 units were sold. In its second week on shelves, sales dropped 77.7 per cent to 72,479, and the week after, by 41.2 per cent to 42,648.
Lifetime sales now stand at 458,347 - almost 40 per cent lower than the 742,244 systems sold in 3DS's first four weeks on sale in Japan. Sales of Nintendo's handheld also fell every week, but that Vita is lagging almost 300,000 units behind a system that sold so badly Nintendo was compelled to drop the price and forecast a first annual loss in over 30 years will be cause for genuine concern at Sony. 3DS sales also fell this week, by almost 50 per cent, to 100,668 units.
Media Create's software chart has a new number one, with Namco Bandai PSP mouthful Super Robot Taisen OG Saga Masou Kishin II going straight in at the top unseating Mario Kart 7, which had occupied top spot for four weeks. Nintendo's 3DS title Spirit Cameradebuts in seventh.
01. Super Robot Taisen OG Saga Masou Kishin II (Namco Bandai, PSP)
02. Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo, 3DS)
03. Monster Hunter Tri G (Nintendo, 3DS)
04. Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo, 3DS)
05. Inazuma Eleven Go (Level-5, 3DS)
06. Musou Orochi 2 (Tecmo Koei, PS3)
07. Spirit Camera (Nintendo, 3DS)
08. Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Square Enix, PS3)
09. Ace Combat 3D Cross Rumble (Namco Bandai, 3DS)
10. Just Dance Wii (Nintendo, Wii)
As promised, Wikipedia has taken the English language site down for 24-hours in protest at the pending US SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy and counterfeiting legislation which the organisation called "real threats to the free and open Internet."
At the time of writing visitors to the front page are redirected to a splash screen which says: "For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet."
A number of other internet sites, although none so high profile, have also joined the protest with link sharing site Reddit and group blog Boing Boing also going offline for the day. Internet firms Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, AOL and eBay have also voiced their opposition to the legislation, if not actually taking their sites down.
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales described the legislation as "poorly designed mess" while Google said "there are better ways to address piracy," while censoring their Google logo on the world's most popular search engine and enticing Americans to sign a petition aimed at the US congress.
Despite the unprecedented publicity behind the SOPA protests, thousands of Americans were surprised by the Wednesday shutdown of Wikipedia. This Twitter user @Hepderpedia has kept a running tally of the bewilderment in the twitterverse. (NSFW)
Mario Kart 7 was the best-selling videogame in Japan last year, according to Media Create, with its host platform 3DS topping the 2011 hardware chart.
Andriasang reports that 4,282,143 3DS systems were sold over the course of the year, and it's little surprise to see it top the hardware chart given that it has been the best-selling hardware in Japan every single week since last August's price cut.
The top three games of the year were all for 3DS. Mario Kart 7 tops the chart with 1.16 million units sold, ahead of Super Mario 3D Land on 1.08 million and Monster Hunter Tri G, which sold 985,498 units.
01. Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo, 3DS)
02. Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo, 3DS)
03. Monster Hunter Tri G (Capcom, 3DS)
04. Final Fantasy Type-0 (Square Enix, PSP)
05. Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Square Enix, PS3)
06. Monster Hunter Portable 3rd (Capcom, PSP)
07. Minna No Rhythm Tengoku (Nintendo, Wii)
08. Tales Of Xillia (Namco Bandai, PS3)
09. Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 Professional (DS)
10. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo, Wii)
But we're talking about all users of any kind of connected device.
Retail analyst Zmags defined its target consumer as one that owns devices such as smartphones and tablets, connects to social networks and shops via gadgets.
Thus, 52 per cent of connected consumers are 40-something year old women with an average household income of $63,000, and 43 per cent own smartphones, while 16 per cent own tablets.
This is clearly a much wider group than the self-selecting sample that uses apps.
Which may be why the report found that, across all demographics, 87 per cent prefer shopping via websites and mobile sites, compared to just four per cent that like to use mobile apps.
Further results show 87 per cent of tablet owners did their holiday shopping via their device, spending an average of $325 each and 49 per cent expect to more on their tablet over the next year.
Online retailer Amazon has revealed its top video game sellers for 2011, with Square Enix' Deus Ex: Human Revolution the most downloaded game of the year.
Five titles in the digital charts were all published by Electronic Arts - Battlefield 3, The Sims 3, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Crysis 2 and Dragon Age 2.
Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was the biggest seller in the physical channel and came in at number eight in the digital top ten, according to the list published by Joystiq.
The top ten best selling games on Amazon in 2011 follow:
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