The latest World of Warcraft expansion came out in November... I'm sure the 5+ million that play didn't hurt sales too much.

... they take far too high a cut, so yes, the development houses don't do so well, as the article states. We don't driver ferraris where I work, but I bet the head of WalMart does.

and can only be read once, unless you have a very bad memory.

300 page book = a couple of days reading, cost of £10.

PC Game is £30 but can be played many times over the next few months.

Books only beat games because there is no restrictive DRM in books, yet.

And as for the whiners complaining that an xbox game is not a computer game, get over yourselves. You sound like Linux whiners!

Consoles, with few exceptions, are not computers (i.e. PCs). Their inferior category of electronic devices should not be lumped in the same category as "computers." The blurring of that distinction has only served to reduce the quality of real computer games as game makers cater to the low standards their *console* counterparts require.

There is a difference between Computer Games (PC + Mac) and Console Games (X360, PS3, Wii, etc.)

They shouldn't lump them together and call them all Computer Games. Very few people think of a Wii or PS3 as a computer.