Video Game Sales Crash, Only Make Several Billion More Than The Entire Movie Industry

Posted by | November 13, 2009

Quoted off the Wall Street Journal, because if anyone knows gaming, it’s those boys.

“The NPD Group will release sales data for October late Thursday afternoon. Analysts on average are expecting sales to decline about 11% from the same month last year, according to a tabulation of estimates by MarketWatch.”

This follows a slight bump upwards in September, but the numbers are somewhat deceptive. They’re a comparison to October of last year, which saw the release of little, unnoticed titles like Fallout 3, Fable 2, and Guitar Hero: World Tour. In comparison, we’re getting more, ah, unique games like Brutal Legend (buy it) and Borderlands (buy the console version). The release of that Modern Warfare 2 game should help, a little. I guess. People seem to like it, right?

Gaming sales are also seeing a boost after the major players cut prices on their consoles, especially Sony. …

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Flaccid Game Sales Expected To Rise

Posted by | October 15, 2009

The last few months have not been the game industry’s best, although by no means a reason for any executives to jump out windows. Sadly. The slump has been blamed on economic factors, as jobless lepers crouched under the freeway overpass with the rest of the dispossessed and downsized tend to spend their meager remaining coins on food and not top titles. Which leads into the other issue, a desolate retail wasteland utterly lacking in top titles to sell to those grizzled survivors who remain ensconced in house and hearth.

But with the release of Ghostbusters, the new Batman, Brutal Legend, Madden 10, and a few others (some FPS type game, what was it?), sales are turning back away from their lemming-like dive off the Cliffs of Insanity.

By the end of August, video game sales had barely cleared a pathetic, meaningless, no money or …

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