These numbers are awful only because we are used to amazing numbers. Video games have grown in sales so much the past few years, it had to slow down eventually.
December 2003 NPD sales for example, even when the economy was doing great:
PS2 - 1.8M
Gamecube - 1.10M
Xbox - 990k
This is so similar to the current three this month - and these numbers were by no means terrible back then.







