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Akvod on 20 January 2010
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stof said:
Akvod said:
stof said:
gaming_addict24 said:
stof said:
Then you should have read it RVDondaPC, because that's not what he was showing with the graph. He was using the graph to show that despite declines this year, Game sales are still at near all time high levels. He's not saying sales are declining. He's saying that despite huge sales, developers are in trouble.

And he's right. If games are selling so phenomenally well, why is it that so many companies have closed down and so many people have been laid off? Try reading it. It's a good read.


its the ECONOMY!!!!!!!

not this guys logic.

that is why companies are going bankrupt the ECONOMY!!!!!!!!

The economy isn't stopping people from buying more games than at any other time in history.

 

Income goes down, demand for inferior goods go up, normal goods go down.

In a recession (just started taking Macro, so not really that confident in my knowledge in it), people save their money and spend less (sorta fucking us over in the short run, although saving benefits in the long run).

And where has that happened? The top selling games are all full price, Wii Fit, all the music games, Sports Resort, Tony Hawk Ride ad a bunch of others are now charging prices we've never seen before and people are buying at record pace. Again, sales are near all time highs, so the economy isn't effecting the game industry in the same way it's effecting other industries. 

The troubles faced by current developers is in small part the lending crunch, but largely a result of an unsustainable model and a console generation that didn't pan out like anyone thought it would.

The top selling games are, because nobody wants to take a risk since they don't have as much disposable income. You shouldn't be looking at the demand for the top selling games, but the demand for the entire industry as a whole. Since you look at the numbers, unlike me, you can judge if the sales of the entire game industry, are up or down.

I'm just making the safest bet here, that the demand for games, as a whole, is not inelastic and recession proof. It's a luxury, and luxuries are the first things that get cut.

 

I mean, you're really saying that the sales, compared to the last gen, went up? With no 100 million PS2s, $60 games, and a recession? The total ammount of games sold had to have gone down, or else my head will fucking explode.