| JaggedSac said: ^^They do show the amount of increase in revenue in the article. I believe it went from $12 Bil to $18 Bil. Inflation is nowhere near that much. Including inflation in these numbers show that the video game market prices remain relatively constant and yet the total amount of revenue grows, thus someone else in the world is getting into the video game market. As long as revenue increases at a larger rate than inflation, the market is increasing. AND when hardware increases its revenue the most and software drops(even with a $10 increase in price), there are more units being sold than usual. This market increase has to come from somewhere. You cannot sit there and tell me an increase of around 6 billion dollars does not mean an increase in market size. |
That is what I said, they only show revenue increase. (if they considered inflation then yes there would still be an increase but it wouldn't be so huge)
Like I said, the main reason for such a huge increase is the higher prices... and software did not drop in revenue, only in percentage of revenue... this just shows that a slight increase in some games price didn't make as much of an effect as the massive increases in hardware prices.
Market size has increased because market is measured in revenue... revenue is not = to console sales. The number of consoles sold each year (in numbers not revenue) hasn't really made much of a significant bump (it was destined to be higher than the previous year because the consoles were just released)
I made my post to disprove your point about Wii selling to new gamers.... of course it is true to a point because it is every new generation, but it is nothing significant just yet (probably due to poor Wii availability)
