The Video Game Industry is Dying!!!

[Ail]

NJ5 said:

Ail said:

NJ5 said:

Ail said:
The industry as a group has never made as big profits as these last years, the issue is the majority of those are concentrated into fewer companies ( Nintendo + Acitivison probably represent over 90% of the profits)...

And I'd say most of Activision's profit actually comes from Blizzard which doesn't even make video games.

I don't know if your statement is correct though. Especially if one subtracts the losses from the profits..

 

Blizzard doesn't make video games ?:

What exactly does it make then ????

 

If Wow isn't a video game, Wii Fit sure isn't either.........

I usually don't call PC games video games. Anyway, Blizzard has a radically different kind of product, it's almost meaningless to compare them to the rest of Activision-Blizzard or other game publishers.

Ail said:

NJ5 said:

RVDondaPC said:

They may have lost a lot of money (for various reasons including the economy) but did they go bankrupt? No they did not. Are they still in a position of power in the market place? Yes they are. Has the market lost some poorly ran competitors freeing up the market space for companies like Sony to capitalize on it? Yes it has. 

This is not terribly on-topic, but how is Sony in a position of power in the market place? They have a minority of market share in every significant market segment... TVs, gaming, phones, music players, you name it.

 

2009

Movies : 13.9% marketshare 3rd position (1st warner, second paramount) : this change a lot yoy depending on releases, Sony has been in top 4 last 5 years with a marketshare hovering around 13.5%, for example Fox which is never in top 5 will jump there in 2010 due to Avatar).

Music : 22% marketshare, 2nd position...(1st Universal music group), has been stable the last 5 years.

 

These are the facts, they do not acknowledge your claims.

 

I was thinking of electronics, but thanks for adding those.

I'd say the movies part doesn't exactly prove me wrong, 13.9% and 3rd place is hardly a "position of power". So that leaves music where they're 2nd... 

 

 

There is no position of power for movie but 10 companies fighting it out every year, a company number one a year can be number 5 the following year....

Sony and Paramount are those doing better as they are the only one to  have managed consistently to stay in the top 4 the last 5-10 years...