Comments on: Declining sales in video games industry

By: animonk

animonk — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:55:55 +0000

Well they should lower the price of the games, 50 and 60 bucks for one game really sucks.

By: vinman123

vinman123 — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:29:05 +0000

Nintendo Hmmm dropped because they can’t keep up with demand. How they going to sell? If stores don’t have the console.
Someone please tell the CEO of Nintendo….

By: Mr.Pap's

Mr.Pap's — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:14:57 +0000

Hey i am waiting for someone to hack the PS3, then i will buy it and download the games, that’s it. On Yar Face, Industry. And i you think PC games are dead, just wait until Wow’s second expansion to come out later this year and you will see who tops the list.

By: hodad

hodad — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:40:32 +0000

martin you are always putting up these posts. why are you so obsessed with video game sales?

By: fluffy

fluffy — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:11:04 +0000

.. there’s been a distinct trend downwards in game sales for a long time. Piracy is probably the biggest factor in the loss of sales, but there’s also the fact that new releases cost a fortune to develop, and also take years before they are completed. So instead of a developer releasing 10 games a year, they may only do 2.

Adding to this,if the protection on those few games is succesfully bypassed then the potential revenue loss will be substantially more than if it was spread over a number of titles.

So please think a little more about buying those games that give you hours of enjoyment, especially the big ones that will be released over christmas.

I’ve put aside money for FarCry2 already

By: bob

bob — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:19:17 +0000

Ok not to make anyone mad but I was really looking forward to SPORE till i found out EA made a pack with the devil and put securom software on all the discs and also only allows you to install it 3 times before you have to call them to active it. So lets review, Im renting the game from them not owning it and they put a backdoor spyware program packaged with it. So EA GETS NO SPORE MONEY FROM ME. I was so looking forward to building little pond scums and making them kill other worlds online.

By: saiyani

saiyani — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:32:59 +0000

First of all-the piracy is contribute to the overall growth of the game making them more popular(free publicity).
Second of all the consoles are ,for me ,like a substitute milk compare to the real thing (PCs),so a way to make money from gamers, not to improve the game experience.
And at last for the ones who say that the PC gaming is down, take a look at MMORG like World Of Warcraft(I would like to see W.O.W. on the consoles ) and meny others which it became a phenomenon and had been cloned like hell,it seems that is the future…
And I like to thank personally to Blizzard for producing PC exclusive content: Starcraft,Warcraft,Diablo.

By: Ethiopia

Ethiopia — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:27:12 +0000

360s shot up right after the price slash anyways…
Stuff’s just too expensive (PS3), as are the games.

By: m0

m0 — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:31:16 +0000

@22 you are totally right- they just say “decline” because they aren’t making what their projections say. They are just pissed because people are becoming hip to their sales models or selling crap games that need 10 patches and yes….instead of them making 190 mil this Quarter, they made 189 mil. Whaaaaaaaa….crying capitalists they are. And its definitely true pirating has no effect- we would’ve seen a major backlash in the 90’s if that were true.

I remember DOOM’s 1.666 message … hehe

By: orph

orph — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:14:47 +0000

lol@gameflix

Yeah game fly is very popular

By: Newt

Newt — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:24:50 +0000

http://cristgaming.com/pirate.swf

By: ytter

ytter — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:01:25 +0000

@28
kill yourself

By: rochie

rochie — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:46:50 +0000

you are all ghy

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By: B

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:24:59 +0000

@7
in my residence area PSP is sold out for weeks and retailors dont expect it any time soon either. reason is the low cost of modding a psp and the fact that the last few games were not bad either (kiddie and mature) and it is still a great mobile multimedia device.