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Monday, April 20, 2009
GAMA Trade Show ’09, Hasbro down
While this year’s GAMA Trade Show may have been down in attendance by 18%, that’s still ahead of the prevailing trends – it was just announced that Hasbro’s 1st quarter profits are down 47%. The economy’s down, for certain – according to one casino dealer a friend spoke with, his casino had laid off one-quarter of all its dealers. Even when the weekend rolled around, Las Vegas restaurants and stores remained uncrowded (walking the strip, which is free, remained popular). So one can hardly blame the game industry for struggling a bit as well.
I’ve got a few recordings to finish formatting, and some other goodies from the show. I’ll have those up as soon as I can.
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Troy_Costisick Says: April 28th, 2009 at 3:42 am
Did they parse out how the sales/profits at WotC are doing? Or did they just release numbers for the whole company?
Asylos Says: April 29th, 2009 at 3:17 am
How are the goodies coming?
Allan Sugarbaker Says: April 29th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Finally have the audio interviews from GTS ’09 wrangled:
http://ogrecave.com/2009/04/29/gama-trade-show-09-interviews-and-the-gaming-news-update/