SCi reveals lower revs, new Hitman, Tomb Raider

Eidos parent SCi touts sequels during downbeat earnings report, says PS3 price cut needed.

With Tomb Raider enjoying a high-profile rebirth just last year and Hitman receiving a feature-film adaptation in November, it would seem foolish to pack those franchises away in the mothballs now. Little surprise, then, that Eidos parent company SCi Entertainment confirmed in its fiscal year-end results today that it has sequels in the works for both brands, as well as for other recent hits.

"We are looking forward with much anticipation to the sequels to Just Cause and Battlestations: Midway, which are already in development, and new versions of world-leading franchises Tomb Raider and Hitman," chief executive Jane Cavanagh said in SCi's year-end report.

That was the good news from the company's fiscal-year recap. The bad news was that the company posted lower revenues than it had the year before, and £30 million ($60.8 million) in losses before tax. For the prior year, SCi managed to turn a profit of £8.1 million ($16.4 million).

Steep price cuts on PlayStation 2 games were cited as part of the reason for the declining revenues, as the publisher had to allocate £14.5 million ($29.4 million) for price protection charges to offset those drops. That wasn't the only Sony-related headache for the publisher, as it also expressed concern over the near-term prospects of the PlayStation 3.

"The Board continues to believe in the long-term commercial success of PlayStation 3 but believes this may take more time than originally forecast by Sony," SCi chairman Tim Ryan said in the report. "The Board is of the opinion that the key driver to the acceleration of the installed base of PlayStation 3 will be a further hardware price cut."

As for the recent rumblings that SCi could be acquired, the company's only update was an acknowledgment that it has entered ongoing discussions with a number of possible acquiring companies.

154 Comments

  • lastexile665

    Posted May 5, 2009 7:04 pm PT

    Everyone who played Blood Money...the ending was truly amazing the credits rolling and you shake the analog stick to get up woooow!! i luved that game...matter of fact im playin hitman silent assassin >>contracts>>blood money

  • lastexile665

    Posted May 5, 2009 7:01 pm PT

    every single**

  • lastexile665

    Posted May 5, 2009 7:01 pm PT

    i have single hitman this is my favorite adventure game 4 real...to me its up there with GTA and the other greats...cant wait to c it on next gen consoles

  • Gamer4Life234

    Posted Jan 15, 2009 12:12 pm PT

    When is it coming out already!!!!!!!?

  • drumbreak1

    Posted Oct 1, 2008 7:15 pm PT

    yup i had hitman blood money awhile ago for ps2, and me and my cousin had some great fun with that game, now i might buy it again but for x360, just for some more great fun and achievments can't hurt

  • shady00_

    Posted Jul 31, 2008 7:28 pm PT

    Hitman: Blood Money was arguably the most fun I ever had playing through a game.

    The settings and characters created an amazingly intense atmosphere

  • Slipstream720

    Posted Jul 31, 2008 7:06 am PT

    The Hitman 5 page hasn't even been updated in a year!

  • Mr-47-47

    Posted Jul 29, 2008 5:19 pm PT

    the best game of assassination " HITMAN "

  • domot

    Posted Jul 19, 2008 12:21 am PT

    YAY HITMAN 5 hope it has an online mode

  • astor47

    Posted Jun 27, 2008 9:15 pm PT

    ANOTHER HITMAN GAME **** YEAH!

  • KwonBoAsoCool

    Posted Jun 23, 2008 5:01 am PT

    HITMAN! awesome! cant wait for it to be released!!!

  • Gideon89

    Posted May 26, 2008 10:48 pm PT

    Hells YES! HITMAN ROCKS! BLOODMONEY KICKS ASS!
    more Hitman,More Hitman, MORE HITMAN! yeah about that hitman dying thing. When I first played it, I didn't realize that was the last level and you could play I just thought it was a credits scene. I was sad then infuriated that 47 just dies and that was that, then one day I went over to my local Hastings entertainment store and picked up a strategy guide on Hitman Bloodmoney and started to read it and saw that you can actually play the level, I found out how, then I went on and beat it on all difficulties even though the hardest one took me about five hours.

    LONG LIVE 47!

  • Agent-CSim-47

    Posted May 21, 2008 12:10 pm PT

    YAAAAY! A new hitman

  • Killingspree303

    Posted Mar 29, 2008 6:13 pm PT

    Hitman 5... sweet!

  • zunit88

    Posted Mar 27, 2008 1:56 pm PT

    finally...hitman...
    and addition on what trusake3 said...it was DIANA who woke em up, she put something on her lips and then kissed him, then he wakes up making a Massacre...cant wait for another hitman

  • trusake3

    Posted Mar 21, 2008 11:54 pm PT

    Hitman DIDN'T die at the end, he was injected with the experimental drug that slows his heartbeat down, if you played the game you should've hit the mouse button several times and he comes back to life, and THEN you gotta kill everyone, either running out of the church and shooting them one by one or using the priest as cover when he approaches you. You HAVE to FIND everyone on the map and kill EVERYONE, even the Priest, and then the game has a finale cut-scene.

  • minhaz123456789

    Posted Mar 18, 2008 11:07 am PT

    wait i thought hitman died in Blood money. wasnt he in a coffin with his 2 guns? i thought that was the end of the series.

  • karthik_9840

    Posted Feb 25, 2008 9:15 am PT

    i am waiting for this series pls give soon

  • tjdeep_2007

    Posted Feb 11, 2008 7:21 am PT

    hitman....omg...........bloodmoney was awesome.......

  • jack_sparrow_28

    Posted Jan 30, 2008 8:16 pm PT

    HITMAN ROCKS! TOMB RAIDER ROCKS! JUST CAUSE ROCKS! AWESOMENESS WHEREVER I LOOK!

  • killerkool07

    Posted Jan 30, 2008 9:41 am PT

    im looking forward to a new hitman game

  • Venetians

    Posted Jan 27, 2008 11:45 am PT

    Got to kill Diana and see what happends.

  • DoomBringer2010

    Posted Jan 26, 2008 1:06 pm PT

    cant wait for the new hitman 47 will return

  • gifteddie

    Posted Jan 2, 2008 11:47 am PT

    omg a new hitman!!???!! sweet

  • DarkStreetDev

    Posted Dec 22, 2007 8:23 am PT

    Can't wait to see what these games will offer.

  • str8Demarco

    Posted Dec 20, 2007 3:46 am PT

    Cant wait for the next Hitman it should be rather amazing however what is up with the Ps2 getting the hitman trilogy but the Xbox and Ps3 didnt get it? Very bad decision in my opinion and I also think Kane and Lynch is another very bad decision. Hitman Good give us the trilogy too.

  • WestCoastRida

    Posted Nov 29, 2007 9:36 pm PT

    i want info and the name of the new Hitman already!!!

  • oumir

    Posted Nov 25, 2007 9:51 pm PT

    nice

  • adam160

    Posted Nov 25, 2007 6:57 am PT

    cant w8 till the next hitman wonder when will it come out 2008 maybe, hope so .

  • monkeyman10989

    Posted Nov 21, 2007 1:53 pm PT

    Just Cause 2!!!! holy crap, this game needs a next gen sequel. i really believe this game was overlooked by many

  • adelhorror

    Posted Nov 9, 2007 4:15 am PT

    Why They Forget LEGACY OF KAIN ? it deserve next-gen game and i wonder why they make movies to games that don't have the best story that game will give like LOK .after LOK Soul Reaver (1999) i cant stop thinking about what the movie will look like if they make it .i wish it will bee soon .

  • lil_d_mack_314

    Posted Nov 8, 2007 1:50 pm PT

    yeeah HM 5, FTW!!111!

  • Siz2005

    Posted Oct 27, 2007 1:04 pm PT

    Hitman 5 on PS3, cool. I wournder what name they will give this Hitman game.

  • Johannes89

    Posted Oct 27, 2007 11:30 am PT

    perhaps more levels and more guns now, then hitman will be complete

  • zimaking

    Posted Oct 25, 2007 4:44 pm PT

    Yes bring Lara to PS3..hurry!!

  • maoriboy8

    Posted Oct 22, 2007 11:14 pm PT

    finally i hope the next hit man is as good as blood money, the movie doesn't look that good though

  • Markner

    Posted Oct 20, 2007 11:53 am PT

    I "love" Hitman come with the game noooooooooooooow!!!!

  • xeyz81

    Posted Oct 17, 2007 5:05 pm PT

    tomb raider for WII is the best, you get the best gameplay with OUR WII Wimote, goooooooooooooo wii

  • MarineXXII

    Posted Oct 15, 2007 5:41 pm PT

    YES! ANOTHER HITMAN, i cannot wait

  • Nostradennis

    Posted Oct 7, 2007 8:09 am PT

    I'd like to see a next gen Legacy of Kain video game from Eidos.

  • drake2metal

    Posted Oct 3, 2007 5:32 pm PT

    can't wait for the new hitman

  • Cbordi

    Posted Oct 3, 2007 6:55 am PT

    they should really make blood money for the ps3..
    cuz my pc crashes on the seccon assasination..
    and so does the 5 other pc's ive tried it on

  • zunit88

    Posted Oct 2, 2007 6:47 am PT

    HITMAN!!!! ill b waiting 4 him

  • dynomitemasta

    Posted Oct 1, 2007 4:29 pm PT

    They are not even releasing Anniversary for the PS3, . . not good. I have it for the ps2 but stopped playing it when they announced it for the 360, Tomb Raider on the 360 spoiled me., thats how I want to play it , It looks horrible on the ps2 in comparison. A new Hitman will do really well on the 360, I can't wait. Oh, I refuse to buy another PS3 game that's not an exclusive until my controller rumbles. Ok Sony?

  • JoePiervincenti

    Posted Sep 30, 2007 9:31 pm PT

    Except an enchanced Tomb Raider Anniversary!

  • Jebril

    Posted Sep 29, 2007 1:31 pm PT

    No games for the Wii, XD

    They must hate that thing.

  • eminem_trick_01

    Posted Sep 29, 2007 12:33 pm PT

    i'm looking so badly to the new hitman game for the ps3 .

  • KingSigy

    Posted Sep 29, 2007 10:45 am PT

    Finally, something to conclude Tomb Raider Legend's ending. Hitman also is a great thing to hear, I just wish they would change the gameplay for once.

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