The once High Class Publisher is Losing Money, Losing Is Big Brand Franchises and about 50million per Year. Acclaim has released its financial report for its fiscal year ending on March 31st, and the numbers aren't good: In the past year, the company ...
To add insult to injury, Acclaim has lost two if its biggest remaining franchises, mostly because of failure to pay royalty fees. The Major League Baseball Player’s Association has dropped All Star Baseball from its list of licenses, meaning Acclaim can’t use the names or likenesses of MLB players in its game, effectively making ASB worthless. More embarassing, however, is that Acclaim no longer holds the rights to Turok. The first-person shooter that made a name for the publisher (in both a good and bad way) was taken away from them last month from Classic Media, creators of the franchise.
These latest two franchises lost can be added to the list of big-name games taken away from them. The first to go, of course, was the then-named WWF series of games to THQ, and recently Criterion’s Burnout series to EA. With virtually no licensed or familiar game properties left in their lineup, Acclaim’s future is very bleak, if they even have a future left.
Just to put into perspective how bad it is for Acclaim, their stock price on the NASDAQ is currently around $0.25 a share, which is well below the $1.00 minimum stock price the index requires its listees to hold.
Source: PlanetGamecube
Definitively done with the Wii U now.
Because Gate Rune and Dunan Unification War is too long to fit in a title.