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darthdevidem01 on 22 January 2009

Packaged Video Games Outsell DVD and Blu-ray in 2008

Last year, retail video games outsold DVD and Blu-ray discs worldwide for the first time, according to a 2008 wrap-up and 2009 forecast by Media Control GfK International.


Video game sales were up to 53 percent of the media market in 2008, thanks in no small part to Nintendo’s Wii, which drove software sales up by 20 percent from 2007. GfK predicts that video games will take 59 percent of the market by the end of 2009.

In Italy and Spain, video games already reign in the home entertainment war, constituting for 67 percent of the market.


Meanwhile, DVD sales dropped by 4 percent, bringing overall DVD and Blu-ray sales down 6 percent from the previous year. The U.S. market played a major roll, with sales for these movie formats dropping by 8 percent.

All told, video game sales reached $32 billion and movie sales came out to $29 billion for DVD and Blu-ray. It should be noted that rentals are not included in the report.

GfK’s findings weren’t without precedent. Earlier this year, Verdict research predicted video game sales would be up 42 percent in the UK, and would surpass music, DVD, and Blu Ray disc sales.

Although they were almost correct, Steve Redmond of the Entertainment Retailer’s Association had a more accurate prediction, suggesting to CVG that games wouldn’t overtake all three other forms of retail electronic media.

Remond said Verdict Research’s report was overstated, and that "games will overtake video by the end of this year, but not music and video combined."

ASTONISHING!

Video Games is slowly becoming the TOP Entertainment Medium!

thanks wii!

http://pc.thegamereviews.com/story-2842-Packaged-Video-Games-Outsell-DVD-and-Bluray-in-2008.html



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killeryoshis on 22 January 2009

Quit clicking here. If you keep doing that I'll lose my job



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Shadowblind on 22 January 2009

Woo-hoo! Whether your a wii,360, or ps3 fanboy, this is fantastic news for the video game industry. I don't know about many of you, but I still remember the time when video gaming was considered wierd or abnormal. Look how far we've come .



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darthdevidem01 on 22 January 2009

@killeryopshis??

last time I checked the wii isn' the console which is being rumored to be discontinued every 5 min

so dunno where your coming up with hate for wii



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Kasz216 on 22 January 2009

Hm. Interesting.

DVD 4% dropped Blu-ray & DVD combined by 6%.... despite Blu-rays growth.

Seems like you can get Blu-rays growth from those numbers but i'm too lazy to do the math right now.

Wait... that seems... backwords doesn't it?

Wouldn't that mean Blu-ray saw a drop in sales too?



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killeryoshis on 22 January 2009

Maybe I should start playing my wii instead of playing Gamecube games instead.



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Bolshack on 22 January 2009

hurray for video games!! we should celebrate xD



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darthdevidem01 on 23 January 2009

bump



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Kantor on 23 January 2009

I never thought I'd say this, but....

Thank you, Wii!



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Kasz216 on 23 January 2009

I'm still perplexed by combined DVD and Blu-ray being down this year by 6% when DVD was down by 4%.

It would seem to indicate blu-ray was down YOY... which isn't what i've been hearing before.

Which makes me suspisious of this until i can figure out what i'm doign wrong here.