Why you shouldn't get your Video Game News from the WSJ

From Joystiq

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When you want the very latest on old guys, money and old guys' money, you turn to The Wall Street Journal. When you want news about video games, you could probably do better, as evidenced by this quote from a Dow Jones Newswire piece the publication ran today about that THQ takeover speculation:

 

"Take-Two has a number of strong franchises and a number of wholly owned Internet Protocols. Wholly owned IPs not only carry higher profitability, but also are more valuable to media companies because they could be adapted into movies, TV serials and online destinations."

 

We'd make a joke here, but there's literally nothing we could say that would be funnier than that quote.

lol, what did they mean by that?(ips)... trademark? domain name? and what the fuck does wholly owned even mean? Adapted into "tv serials" or "internet destinations". is this quote verbatem?

wtf are they talking about? domain space?

intellectual property

mario is an ip (not internet protocol)

oh that explains it. But they still called it internet protocols.

  On 9/23/2009 at 8:34 PM, Obel said:

  On 9/24/2009 at 4:10 PM, T35513R said:

  On 9/23/2009 at 8:34 PM, Obel said:

Hahaha!

Where the fuck have you been man!?

sorry

stick to finance, wsj.

  On 9/23/2009 at 9:05 PM, Bubba69 said:

lol, what did they mean by that?(ips)... trademark? domain name? and what the fuck does wholly owned even mean? Adapted into "tv serials" or "internet destinations". is this quote verbatem?

They are CLEARLY referring to intellectual properties. Seriously, the WSJ knows what the term "IP" means in this context, just a slip up in copy editing.

  On 9/24/2009 at 4:21 PM, Obel said:

  On 9/24/2009 at 4:10 PM, T35513R said:

  On 9/23/2009 at 8:34 PM, Obel said:

 

Hahaha!

 

Where the fuck have you been man!?

lol busy as all fuck . . . nice avatar you gots there ;-P