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As a hit-driven business, the great majority of the video game industry's software releases have been commercial disappointments.In the early 21st century, industry commentators made these general estimates: 10% of published games generated 90% of revenue; [1] that around 3% of PC games and 15% of console games have global sales of more than 100,000 units per year, with even this level ...
Consumers' pocketbooks: 10, Video game industry: 0. That's the score the industry is facing these days as year-over-year video game sales fell 26% to $766.2 million in April, according to a recent ...
The video game industry is on the cusp of a turnaround after a tumultuous few years that saw sales come back down to earth from the lofty heights they reached during the early days of the pandemic ...
In 2007, GamePro named E.T. one of the 52 most important games of all time due to its roles in the 1983 video game crash and the downfall of the seemingly unstoppable Atari. It is the only game to make the list for having a negative impact on the video game industry. [28]
The video game crash of 1983 (known in Japan as the Atari shock) [ 1] was a large-scale recession in the video game industry that occurred from 1983 to 1985 in the United States. The crash was attributed to several factors, including market saturation in the number of video game consoles and available games, many of which were of poor quality.
Same-store sales declined. Folks aren't buying video games the way they used to -- and that's a problem, at least for the companies in the industry. GameStop (GME) reported quarterly results on ...
Madden NFL and the Call of Duty series have been on the annual top ten best-sellers list twelve times over the last twelve years. Call of Duty has been the best-selling video game series in the US for the past 15 years. The NPD lists do not encompass the industry as a whole, as some publishers, developers, and the majority of indie developers ...
NPD, a research firm that tracks video game sales, reported that March hardware sales rose, but software sales plunged again. The industry cannot entirely articulate the reasons for the drop ...