Why you shouldn't get your video game news from The Wall Street Journal

GSBot · Sep 23rd, 2009, 12:58 PM

When you want the very latest on old guys, money and old guys' money, you turn to The Wall Street Journal. When you want news about video games, you could probably do better, as evidenced by this quote from a Dow Jones Newswire piece the publication ran today about that THQ takeover speculation:

"Take-Two has a number of strong franchises and a number of wholly owned Internet Protocols. Wholly owned IPs not only carry higher profitability, but also are more valuable to media companies because they could be adapted into movies, TV serials and online destinations."

We'd make a joke here, but there's literally nothing we could say that would be funnier than that quote.

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fat spartan · Sep 23rd, 2009, 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by GSBot

When you want the very latest on old guys, money and old guys' money, you turn to The Wall Street Journal. When you want news about video games, you could probably do better, as evidenced by this quote from a Dow Jones Newswire piece the publication ran today about that THQ takeover speculation:

"Take-Two has a number of strong franchises and a number of wholly owned Internet Protocols. Wholly owned IPs not only carry higher profitability, but also are more valuable to media companies because they could be adapted into movies, TV serials and online destinations."

We'd make a joke here, but there's literally nothing we could say that would be funnier than that quote.

read full article on joystiq...

Esix · Sep 24th, 2009, 09:18 AM

i dont understand

fat spartan · Sep 24th, 2009, 09:23 AM

They're talking about IP's. In this context IP means intellectual property. Whoever wrote the article thought it stood for internet protocol (which it also does but obviously not in this context).

Esix · Sep 24th, 2009, 09:40 AM

ohhh lolz

lolz