November sales numbers drive stock correction

Stocks across the board continue to close lower following the digestion of November sales numbers. Since December 24, Take Two's Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (PSP), -6.80 DKP (-3.09%), shares declined 24.7% from 282.97 DKP to 213.20 DKP (forecasts 2.13 million copies sold worldwide over lifetime); Sony Corp.'s SOCOM: Combined Assault (PS2), -2.00 DKP (-1.56%), fell 14.7% from 148.33 DKP to 126.50 DKP; Sega Sammy Holding Inc.’s Sonic the Hedgehog for the Xbox 360, -0.72 DKP (-1.38%), dropped 9.0% from 56.40 DKP to 51.30 DKP (513,000 copies sold worldwide over lifetime) DKP while the PS3 version dropped nearly 15% from 48.92 DKP to 41.63 DKP; and Activision's new Tony Hawk installment, Project 8, for the Xbox 360 fell 9.7% from 92.84 DKP to 83.80 DKP after falling from over 104 DKP just the week before. These are just a highlight of games whose stocks have fallen as initial sales disappointed expectations ahead of the year's biggest month of video game spending.