I can’t say I even knew that there was a Monopoly Go! game:
On Hasbro’s second-quarter earnings call Thursday, the toymaker revealed that the mobile video game has grossed more than $3 billion in revenue since its launch on April 11, 2023. That makes Hasbro the top licenser of video games in the past year, the company says.
Hasbro works with mobile games company Scopely on Monopoly Go!—along with other licensed titles, such as Scrabble Go and Yahtzee with Buddies.
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For the full year, Monopoly Go! is expected to generate roughly $105 million in licensing revenue for Hasbro—and company officials admit they could be underestimating that, as they’re still getting a sense of how players interact with the game.
“We don’t quite get the seasonality yet,” said Chris Cox, Hasbro’s CEO on the call. “However, where I do think we have some bullishness is on the mid- and long-term [prospects] for the game. When you look at games that reach this ‘hyperscale’ like Monopoly Go! has . . . 10 of the 20 best-performing games have been out for five or more years. So, this is a game that’s going to be a really strong and positive annuity for us for a long time to come.”
Hasbro does not make games or toys any more. Hasbro is a bunch of people with a fair grasp of accounting who are dead set on maximizing profits and stock price no matter what gets destroyed along the way.
Apparently, his name is, in fact, Chris Cocks.
I’m a little jealous.
Gaikokumaniakku: “[Corporate America] is a bunch of people with a fair grasp of accounting who are dead set on maximizing profits and stock price no matter what gets destroyed along the way.”
Yeah, nigga. Gotta get those well-deserved returns for those hard-working shareholders. Free market.
So that’s why they lost money on the Soy Wars bullshit, and beclowned themselves with “Magic the Pedo-squabbling”, and become increasingly irrelevant in RPGT with the increasingly stupid and increasingly soy-soaked Duh&Doh bullshit?
Get woke, go broke. They may be “too big to fall”, but then they don’t need «a fair grasp of accounting» any more than Disney and other bloated zombies.