Console Market not contracting, becoming more focused

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zorg1000 said:

setsunatenshi said:
Not that it's shrinking exactly in software sales, which is all that matters to the publishers at the end of the day.

As Aquamarine pointed out in recent NPD threads, its something like 75% of all 3rd party software sales come from Activision, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Take-Two, Warner Bros & Bethesda.

That's 6 companies that make up 3/4 of the software market which leaves dozens, if not hundreds of companies to fight over the remaining 1/4.

We are seeing the console market become a few massive publishers while the rest fight for scraps. The same goes for genres where shooters/sports/action make up the bulk of software sales and we are also seeing a smaller number of releases with a handful of massive games taking a majority of sales.

I don't think that's really going to change. The game business will become like the movie business where there's 6-7 big movie studios that release every thing basically.