Viacom: Rock Band falls apart

The company that produced the video game Rock Band is sold by the company which bought it for just $ 50. Be union?
Millions of copies sold of a series of Rock Band games, but apparently the company that manufactured them now worth only $ 50. Viacom Company, bought in 2006, the game developer, a Rmonix for $ 175 million - it now sells investment company New - York Columbus - Nova for a fee of U.S. $ 49.9 - The cost of a single copy of the game.
Of course doing so it has a rational reason - doing so got rid of Viacom of duties and requirements that has about the game and sends those to the buyer (which would save her $ 100 million). In addition, the sale will the company significant tax benefits - about 50 million dollars, resulting due to the loss caused investment buying Rmonix.
Viacom had hoped to ride the success of Rock Band, but failed later in leveraging the brand and had to deal with the decline of music games culminating in 2009 and 2010. Today it is even legal battle with the previous owner of Rmonix financial matters related to the sale of 2006, which was far from serving her as she had expected.
Acquiring Company Columbus - Nova said it was "very excited to be a quality team has consistently produced great games, and help them grow their company's brands. "