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The latimes.com has some year-end reporting from the NPD Group with sales figures for the game industry in North America in 2012. Word is sales of physical discs and consoles declined 22%, compared with a 9% drop the previous year, as the transition to digital distribution accelerates and the current console generation hits the geriatric stage. Here's more: Total spending in the U.S. on physical game products was $13.26 billion, according to NPD Group. The research firm did not estimate the annual total including other avenues for game spending, but did say that used games, rentals and digital formats accounted for about half of total spending in December.
The bestselling game of the year was "Call of Duty: Black Ops II." Annual sequels in Santa Monica-based Activision Blizzard's military shooter franchises have been the top-selling video games for four years straight.
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Re: NPD 2012 Results |
Jan 11, 2013, 22:34 |
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Parallax Abstraction wrote on Jan 11, 2013, 15:54:
ASeven wrote on Jan 11, 2013, 13:21:
Beamer wrote on Jan 11, 2013, 12:27:
How would PC development would help?
Steam billions of dollars should be all the answer you need about this. PC games can and often do make the difference in publisher's fiscal quarters.
How do you figure this? At least when it comes to AAA titles (i.e. the big publisher driven ones), when PC sales are disclosed, they're always well below console sales. Obviously they're high enough for them to keep doing PC versions but a game that sells a million units between console and PC usually seems barely able to crack 150,000 on the PC platform. Is that trend changing as far as you're able to tell?
Given the very limited scope that NPD uses, I'm still very much in the "they're not useless but certainly not nearly as representative of industry health as they'd like to claim" camp.
Well, reading EA's fiscal papers, or Activision's, or Take-2s, you can see that the PC brings in as much and often more than the Xbox or the PS3. Of course it won't bring in more than the consoles since that's a slanted comparison, a single platform sales against multiple platforms. However when it comes to single platform sales the PC often is head to head with the best sales numbers of the console platforms. |
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