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Computer game sales near $3 billion
MERKINS are buying computer games despite the economic downturn.
According to NPD statistics they bought more than $3 billion worth of computer games in November, despite cutting back on other Crimbo shopping.
The US retail sales of video game hardware, software and accessories jumped 10 per cent last month from the year-ago period to $2.91 billion.
The reason appears to be strong sales of Nintendo Wii, the Vole's Xbox 360 and the shooter game "Gears of War 2."
NPD analyst Anita Frazier said games also provide a relatively cheap form of stay-at-home entertainment, other than books of course, but reading takes effort.
She claimed the industry is still on track to rack up $22 billion in US sales this year. This is odd as all the big software publishing companies have not been making much in the way of cash this year. µ
L'Inq
AP
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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.
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.
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!
... 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.
The latest World of Warcraft expansion came out in November... I'm sure the 5+ million that play didn't hurt sales too much.