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Zynga's share price dives under $5; lack of interest in social games could be the culprit

GameDynamo - "Famed Facebook game maker and publisher Zynga has seen its share drop 10 percent on Tuesday, as the company continues to have trouble retaining its audience."

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LiamIRL824327d ago

It has nothing to do with the fact they're all s**t

fei-hung4327d ago

The bubble is bursting just like it did with Dubai. When this bubble bursts, all the people who have been speaking of mobile gaming killing the handheld market will eat crow!

1) There are more IOS and Android games than there is demand.

2) The life span of these games is small as they are designed for short plays.

3) They are cheap or free meaning there is no need to invest anything in them.

4) Many, many of them are rip offs and clones of one another.

5) There are too many of them!

If Sony, MS and Nintendo were clever enough, they would take some of the unknown indie devs from the mobile gaming market and buy them out to make PS Mini type games for their tablet controllers, handlheld and mobile phones and online gaming.

DigitalAnalog4327d ago

Sad thing is, you did not need to have any seance power to see through this. And yet, people hopeless try to over-react to one-trick ponies and claims they can revolutionize the future.

Theo11304327d ago

that or they finally got some bad pr for blatantly stealing other people ideas and products.

Reborn4327d ago

Because Facebook doesn't know how to progress, whilst maintaining it's core reason why it was liked in the first place. Until they establish that, Zynga will have it's work cut out.

Fatty4327d ago

You can only get so many requests or see your aunt's wall covered in posts about their terrible games before you block all of the apps. Not to mention Zynga's horrible privacy policies and their willingness to sell your info...

Oh yeah, and the crappy games themselves.

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Take Two's Purchase of Zynga is Practically AOL Time Warner 2: Electric Boogaloo

The acquisition of Zynga by Take-Two Interactive might become the video game industry's version of the AOL Time Warner merger.

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darthv72827d ago (Edited 827d ago )

I have to give props for the use of Electric Boogaloo reference. I don't think many young folk will even know what that is.

On topic... wasn't that where Don Mattrick went after leaving XB?

Lighter9826d ago

I'm not that young tbh. I only remember the reference from Family Guy.

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Zynga hires Matt Wolf as VP of blockchain gaming

Mobile publisher and developer Zynga, with the hiring of Matt Wolf as VP, seeks to reaffirm its intentions to enter blockchain gaming.

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Zynga is preparing for the global release of Farmville 3 after a year of soft-launch in 13 countries

After a year in soft-launch, Zynga's nostalgia-evoking title FarmVille 3 is geared for a global release with the launch of a sneak peek video

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