U.S. Retail Game Sales Continue Decline [Aug 09, 2012, 8:28 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
NYTimes.com has the report from the NPD Group on retail sales of video game hardware, software and accessories in the U.S. for July (thanks Neutronbeam), confirming indications they have dropped for the eighth consecutive month (though digital sales continue to rise). Word is:
Overall sales fell 20 percent to $548.4 million, according to research firm NPD Group.
Sales of consoles and portable software — the video games themselves — fell 23 percent from a year earlier to $278 million.
Sales of hardware fell 32 percent to $151 million. Accessories sales rose 8 percent to $137 million.
It must be just the most terrible kind of journalism to report on this with a doom & gloom focus without at least trying to check just how much of that reduction in overall retail sales was just shifted into digital download, dlc and free to play games.
On top of that, the whole recessione thing, no huge games released in the last month or two and oh yes this being a slow period of the year as well. At least compare the number to the number from the same period from earlier years?
Grrr...
On top of that, the whole recessione thing, no huge games released in the last month or two and oh yes this being a slow period of the year as well. At least compare the number to the number from the same period from earlier years?
Grrr...
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