April 2016 NPD Thread! Hardware and software up!

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Shadow1980 said:

ZhugeEX said:

*chartz*

Do these include handhelds or just home consoles?

Both

jason1637 said:

ZhugeEX said:
Thanks to Aqua for providing some valuable insight on the Games Industry in the US this month.

Some really great data and talking points here, especially how the software market is now dominated by the same top 10 publishers with 90% of all dollar sales.

Thought these 3 images may help show what's happening in the industry as well-


With less dollars available in the packaged software market, for those outside the top 10, the number of Publishers bringing games to retail has dropped as well. Retail is now very narrow with only core AAA games in certain genres selling exceptionally well.




Number of unique games published at Retail in the US between 2009 to 2015. Went from ~800 to less than 200.




As the number of unique games published at retail in the U.S. decreases, so does the total dollar spend.

Didn't you tweet a few days ago that digital makes up 30% of EAs revenue? I could see why retail sales are going down.

 

Yup, but even adding digital sales shows the decline in spend. (Which is being made up for through extra content sales)

 

Besides, the above is to demonstrate the state of retail with less games and publishers.  At retail the only games that stand out are big AAA titles with not much room for anyone else.