In a note on the official Gears of War 2 site, titled "The Gears Guide to PAX '08", it's been revealed that there will be walkthroughs of the "Sinkhole" level in Gears 2 at the Microsoft booth, and for those who are looking to actually play the game, there will be 5-on-5 multiplayer kiosks at the booth, too. Frank got to sit down with the multiplayer mode at X '08 recently, and it sounds pretty impressive.
@Just_Ben, What's your reason? There's no reason for them to do so. It would be stupid for them to exclude sales of one SKU from their PR while they could draw a better picture of their franchise and its popularity if they didn't. I can assure you that 360 SKU hasn't reached to 4m mark yet (and probably won't reach ever.)
@Just_Ben, Where did you get that 5m sales for GoW? I saw people repeatedly using it but I couldn't find any source for it. At GDC Epic Revealed that Sales of GoW had reached to 4.5m copies and I'm pretty much sure they talked about 360 and PC SKU combined. The 360 SKU alone probably hadn't reached 4m at the time and I'm almost sure hasn't reached yet.
Really? GoW sold over 5 Million copies. It released on a much much smaller install base and before Halo 3 and CoD4. Both drove the hardware. So the potential market for this game should now be greater. It should reach 7 million units.
@Just_Ben, I didn't go short on CoD4, Rock Band and Guitar Hero. At that moment, either I didn't join simEx yet (I join on Dec 07), or I didn't play GLS stocks yet (I was focusing on futures from Dec to April).
About pilias' long on this stock, as long as he didn't add more stock into his long position (something that you need to calculate manually, every certain period), then it is possible that it is an old long position, that he hasn't sold yet because he didn't need the money yet (I have some stocks that I personally think is overpriced, but I didn't sell yet and I let it grow since other still think the stock is underpriced).
One Top 10 member is long, while 4 Top 10 member is short. This is a risky stock with BIG potential profit (and loss).
I think, it depends on buying power if you can invest more.
That pilias is long here, makes me worry that this is at least right valued at the moment, not overvalued. And if you are shorting it, it is most likely him, buying it up again. Not that he is never wrong, but a top10 member, long on a stock this hyped screams to me to be careful.
@apujanata, Call of Duty 4? Rock Band? Guitar Hero? I could make this list longer ;o)
From what I can remember from previous Just_Ben report, popular GLS always have many more players positive than negative. This may help the minority players make more profit if they are correct as you can invest more at higher price ;-)
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