Video games finally falter as sales drop 17 percent

By on Apr 17, 2009 at 12:33 PM
Retail April 17, 2009

While video games may have been able to sail through the recession in the past, it seems that March proved to be a rather tough nut to crack for an industry that provides a great way to escape ones woes. The NPD Group reports that sales of video games in the US fell 17 percent in March to $792.8 million while hardware sales fell 18 percent, bringing in only $455.6 million. A drop of this magnitude did come as something of a surprise, though many analysts attribute the decline to two major differences between March 2008 and March 2009: First, Easter was in March in 2008. Also Super Smash Bros. Brawl was released, a game that went on to be the fourth best selling title in all of 2008. Just in case you’re the type who loves keeping score, the Wii reigned supreme in March with 601,000 units sold followed by the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 at 330,000 and 218,000 units respectively.

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  • jazzyl

    1.

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  • Goodman Holiday

    The Wii is a fad. People are going to lose interest in it any day now. You’ll see.

    (Just thought I’d get that out of the way.)
    :-)

  • dtest54

    good. they need to falter so they can change their sales models.

  • celz

    yea the wii is a fad after it reaches complete market saturation around 2015 it will drop to number 2 or 3

  • Rosario

    @Goodman Holiday

    I don’t know why but that made lol

  • 1adonis1

    Not many good games being release.

  • http://boygeniusreport.com wellington armelin

    yeah the sells will go back up a good game comes out

  • damiaking

    is not like wee didnt see this coming plus not good game have been relesed this and last month

  • StevenGlansburg

    Here is part of the problem… NO NEW, GOOD GAMES… when I actually have time play my xbox, it’s nothing that came out in the last year… it’s Halo 3. These companies need get back to making good games rather than worrying about revolutionary their systems are.

  • Darren

    When there are really no new games released, of course sales will fall. Sales will pick up when better games are released.

  • C

    Sales fell in march because there was no new games in march (that are worth mentioning)

  • BlackberryMAX

    Hmmmmm. I had purchased Street Fighter 4 along with thousands of others. Guess that didn’t make a differance.

  • Galvatron

    @detest agreed the busnesmodel an exclusivity need to change and adapt annobodys going to was good money on shovelware.

  • tylee

    The only good game that came out was resident evil five

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

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