SEC To Investigate Members of the Gaming Industry

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The Securites and Exchanges Commission, or SEC, is set to investigate Acclaim, Activision, and THQ for their accounting practices.

The investigation is because of a US $900 million increase in sales over the past two years.

It is possible that the investigation could at some point be extended to the entire videogame industry.

[Daemos]

The investigation is because of a US $900 million increase in sales over the past two years.

HAhaha! 900 million? How could THAT not be noticed earlier? :o

[My Best Day is Gone]

those companies make sucky games... there is no way in hell that they gained that kind of money.

[ChaiOgawa]

Yea, Activision makes THPS. That game sucks there is no way it made 900 million! Acclaim I never really liked and everybody knows THQ is really bad until they come out with Full Spectrum Soldier or whatever. 900 million..Maybe they should have played some of thier games..

[My Best Day is Gone]

Yea, Activision makes THPS. That game sucks there is no way it made 900 million! Acclaim I never really liked and everybody knows THQ is really bad until they come out with Full Spectrum Soldier or whatever. 900 million..Maybe they should have played some of thier games..

I think THQ had a hand in publishing Sonic Advance 1 and 2 for Game Boy Advance

[ChaiOgawa]

Yea but GBA games don't exactly sell extrmley well.

[::RFY::]

is a GBA that thing that plays Super NES games that were remade after like 10 years. Oh and old genesis games? Its like $90 too, right? Yeah, I heard of those, never knew they were popular....or worth mentioning and wasting time in a post on the dojo. ;)

[My Best Day is Gone]

Yea but GBA games don't exactly sell extrmley well.

Check the sales charts, oh yes they do SELL well...

[ChaiOgawa]

And a waste of a post on this topic as well.

[Gattsu]

I like my GBA.

I'll be damned if I'm paying thrity quid for a game though.

Acclaim, Activision, and THQ all make "Cash - in" games. You know, film and sports licenses mostly.

Those are the kind of games that sell well, not because they are good, but because people like the sport/movie.

But I seriously doubt they could make that much off them.