Aikouka
Lifer
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Are they doing well? The price of movie tickets have gone up considerably. The record industry has imploded. Gaming companies are bleeding money. The successful ones are either HUGE corporations or have other ventures propping them up. You think Valve would still be around without Steam constantly keeping their books out of the red? The gaming industry isn't as healthy as people seem to want to believe.
The biggest problem is the ballooning game budgets and/or very risky ventures. THQ ran into massive problems because of the utter failure of their uDraw tablet. A sort of parallel example is how Logitech has been rather rocky the past few years after sinking a lot of money into the Logitech Revue (GoogleTV device) and watching it fail.
Even the mammoth Blizzard, with a money printing machine (WoW) sold to Activision.
Blizzard didn't sell its company to Activision. Blizzard was originally owned by Sierra, which was purchased by Vivendi under their entertainment division, which was sold to Activision. Blizzard probably could've blocked the deal since arguably... they're the only worthwhile commodity in said deal. Although, honestly... the deal was ridiculously sweet for them. If I remember correctly, Vivendi was looking to off-load its entertainment division for awhile, and Blizzard was essentially given an almost infinite leash to work with. They also have a fairly successful publisher as a sort of sister-company.
