2K Sports isn’t really the most profitable division of Take-Two Interactive, especially in relation to Rockstar Games, another division of T2, and is the studio behind Grand Theft Auto IV.

Strauss Zelnick, chairman of T2, feels that things will turn around soon, expressing confidence at the quality of the games from 2K Sports, whose franchises include Major League Baseball and Top Spin.

Such is his confidence that Zelnick even strikes a jab at competing studio, EA Sports. Talking at the 28th annual Piper Jaffray Consumer Conference, Zelnick remarks:

We pride ourselves on our quality. When we go head-to-head with ‘Brand X’ we out-rate them significantly. We outsell them when we go head-to-head. It’s sort of an unheralded accomplishment. This is a tough business.

Brand X, as can be easily construed, refers to EA Sports. Zelnick is disappointed that the sports business won’t become profitable this fiscal year, but he believes that once hardware sales gain more penetration in the market, things will turn around.

Of course, this could also hold true for EA Sports, as both studios release games on multiple platforms, so in terms of hardware, neither have a monopoly. As Zelnick implied, the battle isn’t in the number of platforms the games were release in, but in the quality of the games themselves.

source pc.qj.net

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We’ve been hearing (and seeing) a lot about Gas Powered Games‘ Space Siege, the futuristic take on the popular Dungeon Siege franchise. While the aforementioned game is looking promising, there’s still a pretty big contingent of Computer gamers who are hoping that the developers decide to take the franchise back to its roots and create Dungeon Siege 3. However, it doesn’t seem that this will be happening any time soon.

Gas Powered Games boss Chris Taylor pointed out that they don’t have any official plans to make Dungeon Siege 3 but they are playing around with the idea of doing so: “We have not made any official announcements, or have any official plans, but we’re kicking ideas around, and that’s no secret.”

So there you have it folks, it seems like they don’t have any official plans for a new Dungeon Siege. Now that I think about it, this might be for the ideal. After all, I’d rather wait for a good game than pick up some generic, buggy title with a large name franchise slapped on it to make it sell duplicates.

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