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Phoenix Games: world's worst game publisher? UPDATE: Working on Wii games, chkpst 975
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Phoenix Games Ahead of it's Time
With a small elite team of 6 people specializing in licensing, marketing and publishing of value priced games, development and manufacturing are bundled through outsourcing and collaboration. This approach suppresses our fixed costs and enables a revolutionary low price strategy.
We boast the shortest time required from development to product release in the industry. Ordinarily the average development period for a game is 18 months, whereas Phoenix need a mere 3-5 months. With integrated standards (:rotate:) in production and packaging it is now possible to realize low costs through stabilization of variable costs and suppression of fixed costs. In the case of fixed costs we are suppressing development costs per product unit by maximizing the sales volume through a low cost strategy and also both diminishing advertising and promotional costs and maximizing operating profits by securing a dependable fan base (8)) through an identifying packaging of a series.
With long-term strategic partners based all over the world, Phoenix Games (Holland) B.V. is perfectly situated to be able to recognise and effectively work with the challenges of price policy, competition, languages, region accessibility and most importantly, to ensure a profitable relationship with its distribution partners.
Phoenix Games (Holland) B.V. has become the leading European publisher for Value Priced Games. To this end Phoenix has adopted for PS2, PSOne & PC formats, a completely different approach to product publishing and distribution. Phoenix aim is to bring quality product (:lol:) to the market at remarkable prices, thus maximising sales for the developers.
PSOne: £6.99 - PS2: £7.99 - £8.99 - £12.99
The complete collection of premium budget product on these fast moving formats will be successfully sold through the many thousands of retail outlets offering quick turnover consumer goods where the general public does its everyday convenience shopping. Such as 24 hour stores, Newsagents, Garage Shops etc. marketing the ranges through these diverse outlets means they will get high exposure and this will result in high sales levels. Although the ranges will be sold at low retail prices of £6.99, £7.99, £8.99 and £12.99 respectively, they will not be short on quality. The retail price points are incredibly competitive considering the quality of the content. This, together with eye catching packaging represents exceptional value for money (:lol:).
How does Phoenix do it ?
Software Publishers are committing ever greater resources to an ever diminishing number of product releases. In commercial terms it is seem to be more prudent to invest money in the next Tomb Raider sequel than it is to invest in some new and speculative venture. Major corporations are solely geared to money making and sometimes lose grip of the nature of the creative enterprise in which they are engaged. The creators of original products are usually independent development companies that have a creative dream. Commercial success is important, but the product comes first and developers live or die by the quality of the product they create. More and more, the smaller developers are being taken over by large companies and there tends to be a vacuum between people who want to get involved in the games industry and people working on commercial products. The smaller developers have less chance to get their original new product to the market. This is the main strategy adopted by Phoenix, to give the smaller publishers their opportunity to launch their products at retail, with a high degree of success already assured.
WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF PHOENIX - VALUE FOR MONEY GAMES
http://www.phoenixgamesgroup.com/uk/company.html
With a small elite team of 6 people specializing in licensing, marketing and publishing of value priced games, development and manufacturing are bundled through outsourcing and collaboration. This approach suppresses our fixed costs and enables a revolutionary low price strategy.
We boast the shortest time required from development to product release in the industry. Ordinarily the average development period for a game is 18 months, whereas Phoenix need a mere 3-5 months. With integrated standards (:rotate:) in production and packaging it is now possible to realize low costs through stabilization of variable costs and suppression of fixed costs. In the case of fixed costs we are suppressing development costs per product unit by maximizing the sales volume through a low cost strategy and also both diminishing advertising and promotional costs and maximizing operating profits by securing a dependable fan base (8)) through an identifying packaging of a series.
With long-term strategic partners based all over the world, Phoenix Games (Holland) B.V. is perfectly situated to be able to recognise and effectively work with the challenges of price policy, competition, languages, region accessibility and most importantly, to ensure a profitable relationship with its distribution partners.
Phoenix Games (Holland) B.V. has become the leading European publisher for Value Priced Games. To this end Phoenix has adopted for PS2, PSOne & PC formats, a completely different approach to product publishing and distribution. Phoenix aim is to bring quality product (:lol:) to the market at remarkable prices, thus maximising sales for the developers.
PSOne: £6.99 - PS2: £7.99 - £8.99 - £12.99
The complete collection of premium budget product on these fast moving formats will be successfully sold through the many thousands of retail outlets offering quick turnover consumer goods where the general public does its everyday convenience shopping. Such as 24 hour stores, Newsagents, Garage Shops etc. marketing the ranges through these diverse outlets means they will get high exposure and this will result in high sales levels. Although the ranges will be sold at low retail prices of £6.99, £7.99, £8.99 and £12.99 respectively, they will not be short on quality. The retail price points are incredibly competitive considering the quality of the content. This, together with eye catching packaging represents exceptional value for money (:lol:).
How does Phoenix do it ?
Software Publishers are committing ever greater resources to an ever diminishing number of product releases. In commercial terms it is seem to be more prudent to invest money in the next Tomb Raider sequel than it is to invest in some new and speculative venture. Major corporations are solely geared to money making and sometimes lose grip of the nature of the creative enterprise in which they are engaged. The creators of original products are usually independent development companies that have a creative dream. Commercial success is important, but the product comes first and developers live or die by the quality of the product they create. More and more, the smaller developers are being taken over by large companies and there tends to be a vacuum between people who want to get involved in the games industry and people working on commercial products. The smaller developers have less chance to get their original new product to the market. This is the main strategy adopted by Phoenix, to give the smaller publishers their opportunity to launch their products at retail, with a high degree of success already assured.
WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF PHOENIX - VALUE FOR MONEY GAMES
http://www.phoenixgamesgroup.com/uk/company.html
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Except that crap was actually licensed. It at least was ET: The Extraterrestrial, and Pac-Man, and not "Super Hampster Ball", "Paccie", and "Snow White and the Seven Clever Boys".
This is worse than ET (2600). I hope that Phoenix Games realizes this.
When are these games set to come out? The reviews will be delicious.
Also the inevitable lawsuits.
These have been out for years, but I haven't seen any reviews for them. Interestingly enough, I haven't also heard anything about lawsuits either.
Is this... real?
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Good start to the day. Pity it's going to be the worst one of your life. The light is now on.
i seem to remember hearing it when i lived in london, reading it in books and seeing it in that first episode of "the office."
i thought it was general term of offense for people from pakistan or, more probably, any guy that looked like he might be middle eastern. have i made this up?
This is the real Revolution!
Forsake, Warlock of Stonemaul
Just wow.
Not even the games. The fact that a company like this takes itself seriously.
yeah i think its spelt pakkie, i seem to remeber bush made a gaffe where he said "the indians and the pakkies" in some speech
so I can strangle them
i think bushs gaffe was that he called pakistan part of the arab world.
on topic: these games might not be the worst in the world. if they work, they still have something up on big rig racing or whatever that game was. that game had bridges i just fell through and a level that wouldnt load.
Hey, they make PC games too!
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Oh why can't I stop laughing.
i wish i could find that thread about games to play with your girlfriend so i could post this as a suggestion.
This is a PS2 game. :lol:
Hell, there's way too damn much to paste here. But the amount of crap in their PS2 section is ASTOUNDING.
http://www.phoenixgamesgroup.com/uk/playstation2a.html
Furry Tales, Son of the Lion King, "Girl Zone," etc. etc. Check it out, now.
Edit: Okay, just one.
Edit edit: How could I forget Extreme Spring 3010! It's too extreme for 3000!
Why haven't they been sued?