Here's an artcle from Multimedia Wire (9/16/97) that shows
ATVI is moving up nicely. Note: The majority of ATVI titles
have not shipped yet...Heavy Gear, Zork GI, Quake II, Dark Reign
(Tomorrow!), etc. This year has mainly seen the shipment of
lowerer priced Quake add-on packs, etc...likely accounting for
the large increase in shipment volume without the corresponding
increase in sales. This also makes me you realize just how important
a single big hit can be.
Tom C.
Title: Devil Made Me Do It: CUC Software Improving on Stellar 1996 Perfomance
Midway through last year CUC Software was muscling its way
through the PC gaming world, racking up $70.9m through the first six
months and eating up 17.3% market share, according to PC Data. How
could they possibly improve? With Diablo, that's how. Riding the
strength of its devil-infested multiplayer game, it has leaped to
$93.6m in sales through the first six months of 1997, gobbling up
almost 19% of the market along the way. Hasbro has also performed
especially well in 1997, and Electronic Arts [ERTS] and GT Interactive
[GTIS] are also up. Meanwhile MicroProse [MPRS], Broderbund [BROD] and
Interplay are lagging.
Key:
Publisher
Jan. to June - 1997 Jan. to June - 1996
Sales Share Units Share Sales Share Units Share
1. CUC Software
$93.6m 18.8% 3.2m 16.9% $70.9m 17.3% 2.0m 14.5%
2. GT Interactive
$45.9m 9.2% 2.3m 12.2% $38.2m 9.3% 1.4m 10.5%
3. Electronic Arts
$42.6m 8.6% 1.4m 7.6% $33.6m 8.2% 1.0m 7.4%
4. Microsoft
$27.3m 5.5% 763k 4.0% $20.1m 4.9% 573k 4.2%
5. LucasArts
$26.8m 5.4% 734k 3.9% $22.9m 5.6% 603k 4.4%
6. Virgin
$25.3m 5.1% 792k 4.2% $18.8m 4.6% 540k 4.0%
7. Hasbro
$21.0m 4.2% 669k 3.5% $3.8m 0.9% 98k 0.7%
8. Activision
$16.9m 3.4% 585k 3.1% $16.0m 3.9% 422k 3.1%
9. MicroProse
$15.1m 3.0% 493k 2.6% $19.3m 4.7% 529k 3.9%
10. Interplay
$14.8m 3.0% 461k 2.4% $18.7m 4.5% 526k 3.9%
11. Maxis
$11.6m 2.3% 366k 1.9% $13.8m 3.4% 390k 2.9%
12. Mattel
$9.9m 2.0% 322k 1.7% - - - -
13. Broderbund
$9.5m 1.9% 363k 1.9% $13.6m 3.3% 321k 2.4%
14. Access
$7.9m 1.6% 282k 1.5% $5.4m 1.3% 205k 1.5%
15. Eidos
$6.7m 1.3% 197k 1.0% $1.3m 0.3% 35k 0.3%
16. Nova Logic
$6.3m 1.3% 165k 0.9% $3.0m 0.7% 84k 0.6%
17. Learning Co.
$5.0m 1.0% 460k 2.4% $3.2m 0.8% 310k 2.3%
18. Disney
$4.9m 1.0% 199k 1.1% $2.6m 0.6% 86k 0.6%
19. New World
$4.8m 1.0% 164k 0.9% $3.3m 0.8% 110k 0.8%
20. Graphix Zone
$4.5m 0.9% 182k 1.0% $2.3m 0.6% 86k 0.6%
21. Accolade
$4.4m 0.9% 144k 0.8% $3.5m 0.9% 91k 0.7%
22. Expert Software
$4.2m 0.8% 371k 2.0% $5.4m 1.3% 452k 3.3%
23. MindScape
$4.1m 0.8% 195k 1.0% $4.7m 1.1% 168k 1.2%
24. Interactive Magic
$3.8m 0.8% 92k 0.5% $1.8m 0.4% 41k 0.3%
25. Strategica Sims
$3.5m 0.7% 148k 0.8% $6.7m 1.6% 218k 1.6%
26. Bethesda
$3.0m 0.6% 78k 0.4% $1.4m 0.3% 46k 0.3%
27. DreamWorks
$2.9m 0.6% 69k 0.4% - - - -
28. Psygnosis
$2.9m 0.6% 145k 0.8% $2.0m 0.5% 90k 0.7%
29. Sega
$2.7m 0.5% 82k 0.4% $588k 0.1% 14k 0.1%
30. Simon & Schuster
$2.7m 0.5% 89k 0.5% $1.9m 0.5% 50k 0.4%
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