Highlights from Midway's 4th Quarter financial report

[William_C]

This is almost two weeks old, but I havent seen it posted here. But Stranglehold, Unreal Tournament 3 go Platinum, and Mortal Kombat 8 is announced to show on Midway's Gamer Day in April.

"Our first true next gen. multiplatform title Stranglehold sold over a million units and provided an affirmation that our standardized technology tool set for a next generation titles is on the right track with core underlying game play technology and animation systems."
"Over the last year we’ve had three titles become million plus unit sellers. Stranglehold as we mentioned earlier, Rampage which originally launched in 2006 but has been a perennial catalogue seller and hit 1 million units last year and Unreal Tournament 3. Unreal Tournament 3 for the PC and the PS3, have now shipped over a million units total. While it may seem the PC market is slowing as indicated by NPD sales for this title. That is not the case internationally, where PC sales continues strong in a number of markets."
"As we expected our European PC sales of Unreal Tournament 3 are outpacing North America and overall the title is turning out to a success."
"The PC in general as you know performs over-performs relative to US and Europe, and we saw PC titles like Hour of Victory and certainly Unreal Tournament for the PC has performed better percentage wise in Europe than in the US."
"Later this year, we are scheduled to launch the Xbox 360 version of Unreal Tournament 3 and expect it to perform equally well. We set a number of goal, I’m sorry we set a goal a number of years back to grow our European sales to be on par with the rest of the publishers in the industry and we have exceeded that in a faster timeframe than we expected."
"We’re very excited about the prospects for Wheel Man an innovative high action cinematic driving game, scheduled for the second half of the year. Wheel Man stars Vin Diesel an iconic figure amongst gamers who’s been involved in the developing of the game."
"And then later in the year, we expect to launch the next generation debut of our perennial top selling franchise Mortal Kombat. The Mortal Kombat franchise has sold over 7 million units during the PS2 console cycle and we will be unveiling details on the next iteration at our Gamers Day event in mid April."
This is Vegas is one of the highest testing game concepts we have ever tested and we’re particularly excited about the sales potential of the game. This is Vegas, is an ambitious new intellectual property from our Seattle studio that we believe will deliver on the promise of open world gaming evolved. Players will be able to live their Vegas fantasy in a vast open world, lifestyle action experience. Game players will be able to experience those classic Vegas moments as they fight, drive, party and gamble in the first true Vegas open world."
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[Figs]

I want Midway to finally call it quits and go bankrupt. They're like the Fox of the video game industry.

To think how the last 3-4 Mortal Kombat games would have turned out if they were allowed to push the release date to fix up the final touches.