I would agree with the above post voicing concern over the dangerous attitude of condescension and assumption pervading the interview
but the problem i have with the stock market's take on video games is:
- they are not coming from a gamer perspective, honestly they have no reason to care if x is a better, more enjoyable game than y, they merely want to see which companies will gain them money in the short and medium terms
-because they are focused on those companies which are publicly traded, as the article says, the companies that get monitored are Activision, Acclaim, Electronics Boutique, Electronic Arts, Atari, Hollywood Entertainment, Midway Games, THQ, Take-Two Interactive, and GameStop. These companies are in no way a good sampling of the video game industry. I mean these are the american companies that tradionally release a slew of the crap on the shelves and you cannot have a good perspective of an industry if you have these blinders on. Analysts always want to talk about a madden, mortal kombat or turok, why? because they only see the gaming industry as ms, sony, nin and maybe half a dozen developers/publishers.
then there are comments which are just asinine "punk kids," Sony learning its lesson with Betamax, lining up "200" games at a system launch, "50 hip hop games," "I will neve understand Tony Hawk"