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In my case it's due to an almost total depletion of funds due to equipment failures, family events, college finance, and changes in my situation down the road.

heh.. thought this was gunna be due to Bliz nerfing WoW again. 

If they want sales, gotta get rid of that $60 price. There was talk of that awhile back but still all I see is new games at $60.

She continued, "Our latest gamer segmentation study suggests that more than 4 million new 'players' have entered the games market since last year, so certainly the decline isn't due to less folks participating in the industry . Some of these are new retail consumers and some are playing online for free, and others are a mix of both.  The trick is to continue to figure out how to monetize all the gaming that is going on across PC, mobile devices, and video game systems.  Certainly there is plenty of opportunity in the industry, but the rate of change in many areas of the industry presents a lot of challenge as well.

I think I read much of the increase is in female gamers. Won't sell many shooters there.

In terms of hardware, Nintendo still remains dominant, but Wii figures are nowhere near as impressive anymore. The DS sold another 766.5K units while the Wii sold 361.7K.  Xbox 360 followed with 240.6K while Sony's platforms trailed behind. PS3 sold 164.7K, PSP sold 163.5K and PS2 sold 152.7K. 

Frazier noted that Xbox 360 was “the only platform to have realized a unit sales increase over last June,” and year-to-date, “both the 360 and NDS have generated an increase in unit sales.” Additionally, although Wii demand has trailed off a good deal in recent months, Frazier believes the sales pace for the console is still quite decent. "While Wii sales are down from last year, the platform is still realizing very strong sales month after month.  Compared against historical performance of other systems this far into the console lifecycle, the unit sales performance is still strong," she said.

FWIW Wii down 45%, I think. Somewhat anomalous unless the market is approaching saturation. Also unusual in that you'd xpect women to be more Wii-oriented than 360, but online free PC play could account for that.

(Side note, uki, no change in Quake Live for Mac/Linux. I checked coupla days ago.)

Last edited by Bat (2009-07-17 6:15 pm)

I didn't have a handy Steam vending machine to feed pocket change to.

Disability sucks.

Just skip a couple of lunches and you're there

At a meal/day, that'd mean 25-80 hours without food.

Last edited by Bat (2009-07-17 11:15 pm)

Metacell wrote:

NightCougar_37 wrote:

If they want sales, gotta get rid of that $60 price. There was talk of that awhile back but still all I see is new games at $60.

Oh hell yeah!  $60?  I'll wait till hits the bargain bin.   I'll pay $40 for the gold version with expansions.  The game's just as much fun a year later.

Same thing here, if they wanted me to buy it new instead of used so they could move more carts than lower the damn price. The last game I paid full price for was when MGS:4 was released. I pay max $2 an hour for a game, so if a game is beatable and than gets boring after 12 hours I won't pay more than 24 bucks for it, etc.

Last edited by Aaron_R (2009-07-18 9:35 am)

I just don't have the time anymore. And a lot of games are crap. I'm finding it more palatable to shell out >= $10 for a decent iPhone game that I can play on the go. The age of decent demos is on the decline and like many, I'm unwilling to take a chance with $60 on an unproven title. There are way too many devs hocking way too many titles each year. It's time to cull the herd. Unfortunately the high cost of development for modern PC and console games means that each title has to be a blockbuster in order to make any money.

Senior Design and my car have cost me about 3k in one month, and nothing has come out in a while that has been an enticing buy, I'm borrowing Infamous from a friend for a bit.  But Bioshock 2 and L4D2 will definitely be on my shopping list, that is when each is on sale on Steam.  That is if I can save up the 50-75 total...   Graduate School tuition is not cheap, and I start in the fall

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