Comments on: News: Making No Bones About It

By: Julian 'SiliconNooB' Taylor

Julian 'SiliconNooB' Taylor — Thu, 01 May 2014 17:48:28 +0000

Happy to oblige!

By: Ferchu

Ferchu — Thu, 01 May 2014 09:46:47 +0000

I don’t understand what Microsoft is thinking with their decisions. It looks like decisions taken by desperate chickens about to be headless, clean and sent to the oven .

SN – Keep these microsoft news related articles coming, they are excelent and give me such a fuzzy, warming heart feeling xD . Great article!

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:27:30 +0000

I expect they will use their Nokia purchase to enter the handheld market like the nGage. Hurray for that happy day !

By: Julian 'SiliconNooB' Taylor

Julian 'SiliconNooB' Taylor — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:00:11 +0000

Yeah, I can’t really make sense of M$’ comments either – perhaps they are just telling investors what they want to hear?

By: Brettsuo

Brettsuo — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 19:04:14 +0000

Every story you write about the Xbone selling poorly warms my heart. If it is true that Microsoft would have to pay a fee to change their contracts, I fail to see how it is good business sense to do so, assuming they think they can sell all their surplus eventually (which might be a terrible assumption). I suppose the reason could be that they want to minimize their losses in the short term, either to please investors or to spin their numbers later in the year to make them look something more like pure profit, but that seems like a terrible way to maximize overall profits.

I had no idea Zynga has been falling that far that quickly. More heart-warming news.

I am quite sad that I did not hear about the wealth of classics available for Vita while they were still live. I would have been one of many, I’m sure, to fork over a load of money to get a lot of these games on my favorite portable gaming solution. Come on Sony, suck it up and get your classics licensed so you can make a buttload of money already.

Great post as always, SN!

By: James 'Gyme' Pagel

James 'Gyme' Pagel — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 22:24:45 +0000

I do think Facebook is the most likely landing spot of the three, however, Google or Amazon could make a bit more sense if they try to make a push into the social gaming market. Still, I agree that Zynga is bad value proposition in every sense of the phrase and would probably serve as more of a last resort acquisition for Google and Amazon.

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 15:53:23 +0000

I can hardly imagine Amazon or Google buying Zynga. It’s too obviously a bad value proposition. However, with FaceBook’s recent acquisition of EyeWall (neé Oculus Rift), they might want some shitty games to go with their shitty peripheral.

Look forward to FarmVille 3D, coming soon!

By: James 'Gyme' Pagel

James 'Gyme' Pagel — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 05:38:40 +0000

Zynga’s fall has been fun to watch and I don’t see anything to indicate that things will change. An added benefit of Zynga’s collapse is the tumbling of King’s share price shortly after its recent IPO. I think it is only a matter of time until Zynga is bought out by either Google, Facebook, or Amazon.