Take-Two profits down in first quarter of Red Dead-free fiscal year
by JC Fletcher 
on Aug 8th 2011 4:56PM
Take-Two's net revenue for its first quarter of fiscal 2012 (which ended June 30) represents a downturn year-over-year -- $334.4 million versus fiscal 2010's $375.4 million (Take-Two
shifted its fiscal calendar since then, in case you're wondering why we're comparing Q1 2012 with Q3 2010), with a net loss of $8.7 million instead of profits of $26.3 million. Last year
around this time, of course, everyone on Earth was buying
Red Dead Redemption, pushing Take-Two's profits into the stratosphere.
With the game sold to all of Earth's residents to date, that leaves only babies born in the interim as the audience for new copies of the game; that market of babies has done well enough for the company to count
RDR and its
Undead Nightmare expansion as one of the leading products in this quarter, with 2 million retail copies of
Undead Nightmare shipped life-to-date and 9 million
Red Dead Redemptions. Other leaders include
Duke Nukem Forever,
LA Noire,
NBA 2K11 and
Carnival Games: Monkey See, Monkey Do.
