Eidos Announces Plans, Profit, Changes

Thanks to Yahoo! for hosting the press release announcing Eidos Interactive's return to full-year profitability, despite the disappointing critical reception for the latest Tomb Raider title, as Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, TimeSplitters 2 and Championship Manager 4 "each sold circa one million units during the year." Eidos comment on Lara's transfer to developers Crystal Dynamics as bringing a "fresh look and feel" to the franchise. Elsewhere, the massive-selling Championship Manager soccer sim franchise will no longer be developed by creators Sports Interactive, raising questions of "how Eidos will manage to deliver anything up to CM's standard" for the 2004/2005 version, and Eidos won't be publishing TimeSplitters 3, since developers Free Radical own the rights to it.

Eidos Announces Plans, Return To Profit

[pizza_milkshake]

good plan!

Eidos is reading Slashdot?

[vasqzr]

1. ?
2. ?
3. Profit!

Re:Eidos is reading Slashdot?

[evil-osm]

Perhaps, but they seem to be one step ahead of us:

1. Plans
2. ?
3. Profit!
4. Changes!

I'd be more impressed...

[skyknytnowhere]

If they announced plans to start making good games again.

skye

Re:I'd be more impressed...

[Acidic_Diarrhea]

Exactly. I love how they announce that it is time to make profit. Like they weren't trying to make a profit before.

"Well, we have done some research and decided that we need to move in a different direction, our 'don't make profit' business plan seems not to work. So now we're on a 'make profit' business plan. We feel that this will help the company a lot." -Eidos guy

They clearly need to make changes but if they came out with an announcement which recognized that their games have been sub-par and that they

Re:I'd be more impressed...

[Militant Libertarian]

What are you talking about?? Hitman 2 was an awesome game!

If you want to talk about games that are totally crappy/bugged to hell, talk about EA games. EA single handedly ruined Global Operations (the would-be best multiplayer game of all time).

Re:I'd be more impressed...

[a_peckover]

Obviously Championship Manager 4 passed you by.

Championship Manager

[a_peckover]

I don't really see how this is going to work out well for Eidos - they know full well that people aren't going to be fooled if they see a Championship Manager game with no Sports Interactive logo on it, and they also know that as soon as SI announce their new football game the Championship Manager brand will die.