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Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick wary of pursuing video game film adaptations

Derek Strickland | Aug 8, 2023 5:02 PM CDT

Despite big successes from Nintendo and Sony, Take-Two Interactive will continue to be very selective on adaptations of its hit franchises.

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick wary of pursuing video game film adaptations

It may be a long time before we ever see a Grand Theft Auto movie. In a recent earnings call, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick expressed his thoughts on TV shows and films based on video games.

Zelnick is mostly wary about expanding games into new mediums because of the incredibly high risks involved, but that being said, Take-Two has still licensed two franchises to film, including Borderlands and BioShock.

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Grand Theft Auto V sales break 185 million, pushes total GTA sales to 405 million

Derek Strickland | Aug 8, 2023 4:30 PM CDT

Grand Theft Auto V has now sold-in, or shipped, 185 million copies worldwide, Take-Two Interactive has announced.

Grand Theft Auto V sales break 185 million, pushes total GTA sales to 405 million

Today, Take-Two Interactive announced strong Q1'24 earnings and gave key updates on game sales figures. According to the latest report, Rockstar Games' landmark Grand Theft Auto V has now sold-in over 185 million copies across three console generations--Gen7, Gen8, and more recently on Gen9 with the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S versions.

This milestone has also pushed total Grand Theft Auto franchise sales past 405 million lifetime-to-date.

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Mario game sales jump after Super Mario Bros film success

Derek Strickland | Aug 8, 2023 2:29 PM CDT

The new Super Mario Bros. movie caused sales of Nintendo's Mario games to jump.

Mario game sales jump after Super Mario Bros film success

Following the huge success of the star-studded film, Nintendo has enjoyed a strong rise in Super Mario game sales on its Switch handheld-console hybrid. Not only has the film helped rise Nintendo's IP royalty revenue to an incredibly high $131 million, but the movie is also sparking more game and hardware sales for Nintendo's Switch ecosystem.

According to sales data released by Nintendo, the Switch saw a strong 3.91 million shipments worldwide, with the bulk of consumers opting for the more expensive OLED model. This helped Nintendo reach a new all-time Q1 high in yen earnings. It's especially noteworthy that all of the models in the Nintendo Switch family are sold at a profit.

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Dreaming of a Steam Deck with more RAM? This modder has equipped their Deck with 32GB

Darren Allan | Aug 8, 2023 1:05 PM CDT

Valve's Steam Deck comes with 16GB of RAM, and you can't upgrade that - at least not in theory, but where there's a will...

Dreaming of a Steam Deck with more RAM? This modder has equipped their Deck with 32GB

Balázs Triszka achieved this feat just as you'd expect, using a BGA rework station, desoldering and removing the existing RAM modules inside the Steam Deck, and replacing them with beefier ones.

While this is clearly a trickier prospect than simply upgrading the storage on the Steam Deck, the modder notes on Twitter (as spotted by OC3D) that the task isn't that difficult "if you have the skills needed for bga rework" (naturally), adding that "there is no glue under the chips."

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Zelda Tears of the Kingdom sells 18.51 million copies, made up 35% of total Q1 software sales

Derek Strickland | Aug 8, 2023 12:32 PM CDT

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has amassed nearly 19 million sales in its first quarter on the market.

Zelda Tears of the Kingdom sells 18.51 million copies, made up 35% of total Q1 software sales

Tears of the Kingdom is a staggering success on the Switch. According to Nintendo's latest earnings report, the new landmark RPG has sold 18.51 million units in little over a month. To put that number into perspective, that's more than Elden Ring's total sales in its first six months and almost as much as Elden Ring's total-year sales of 20 million.

The new Zelda did so well that it helped Nintendo hit a new Q1 record for first-party game sales, with 15.7 million copies sold in its first weeks on the market. Our figures indicate that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom made up 35% of Nintendo's total Q1 software sales.

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FromSoftware made $152 million last year with a 60% profit margin

Derek Strickland | Aug 8, 2023 11:28 AM CDT

FromSoftware is pulling in stellar revenues and profits on the heels of Elden Ring's breakout success.

FromSoftware made $152 million last year with a 60% profit margin

According to games industry analyst Serkan Toto, who keeps a close eye on the Japanese games market under his Kantan Games fim, the Dark Souls and Elden Ring developer FromSoftware is doing incredibly well right now.

Kantan Games' Serkan Toto notes that FromSoftware generated $125 million in total sales throughout the last fiscal year, which ran from April 2022 to March 2023. The Japanese game developer apparently managed to keep costs of goods and total expenses on the low side and made $91 million in operating income during the period. This represents an astronomically high 60% operating profit margin--something that we rarely ever see in the video games industry.

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Want a Steam Deck on the cheap? It looks like Valve may sell officially refurbished handhelds

Darren Allan | Aug 8, 2023 8:58 AM CDT

Valve could have plans in the works to refurbish Steam Deck portables and sell them, if fresh clues spotted online are anything to go by.

Want a Steam Deck on the cheap? It looks like Valve may sell officially refurbished handhelds

PC Gamer reports that Pavel Djundik, creator of SteamDB, spotted that Valve had concocted some listings for 'Certified Refurbished' Steam Deck models in all sizes (64GB, 256GB, and 512GB).

Those listings in the Steam database have since been removed, as expected with leaks such as this, but it's a pretty solid suggestion that this is Valve's plan in the future. Or at least that the company is exploring this as a possibility.

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Blizzard is busy banning Diablo 4 players who used the 'unplug your internet' exploit

Darren Allan | Aug 8, 2023 8:16 AM CDT

Diablo 4 has a well-known (at this point) exploit that was facilitated by temporarily disconnecting yourself from the net, but it has now been fixed - and Blizzard is taking action against those who abused the trick.

Blizzard is busy banning Diablo 4 players who used the 'unplug your internet' exploit

For the uninitiated, the exploit came in with the new season, and allowed for swapping items or gold from the Eternal Realm to Seasonal Realm.

This could be done by grouping up with a friend on the Seasonal Realm, then briefly unplugging your internet, allowing you to log back in as an Eternal Realm character with all their goodies - which can then be transferred.

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Baldur's Gate 3 expansion sounds unlikely - and if it happens, it'd take a long time to arrive

Darren Allan | Aug 8, 2023 6:27 AM CDT

Might Baldur's Gate 3 get an expansion? Those hoping to play a further adventure, post-level 12 - the cap for the RPG - might have their fingers crossed, but it sounds like it's unlikely to happen given what we've just heard from the developer.

Baldur's Gate 3 expansion sounds unlikely - and if it happens, it'd take a long time to arrive

PC Gamer reports that despite the theoretical potential for an expansion that allows characters to level up beyond the current cap of level 12 in Baldur's Gate 3, Larian founder Swen Vincke very much played down any possible such outing.

In an interview, Vincke told PC Gamer:

"Honestly, we haven't started on an expansion."

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Square Enix pays off Final Fantasy XVI's dev costs, causes Q1 profits to drop

Derek Strickland | Aug 7, 2023 1:07 PM CDT

Square Enix's kicks off a new fiscal year with plummeting operating profits and net profits, but there's a good reason for this significant drop.

Square Enix pays off Final Fantasy XVI's dev costs, causes Q1 profits to drop

Square Enix's Q1 FY24 report gives key updates on the status of the Japanese publisher. The company saw a strong uptick in net sales, delivering 85.669 billion yen ($592.619 million) primarily due to the Digital Entertainment segment, which benefited from the performance of Final Fantasy XVI, MMO revenues, and multiple smartphone/PC games. Net sales grew +14.4% year-over-year on a yen basis and +7.7% YoY on a USD basis.

That's where the good news really stops, at least insofar as numbers. Square Enix's Q1 operating income and net profits were down heavily during the quarter. The publisher reported operating income of 3.097 billion yen ($21.423 million), representing a nearly 80% year-over-year decrease, and total net profits were also down by 65.7% to 18.355 billion yen ($43.58 million).

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