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TWRoO on 04 July 2008
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Slimebeast said:
TWRoO said:
JaggedSac said:

So you are telling me with the largest increase in revenue in 10 years, that the video game market is not expanding faster than it ever has?

"As we have discussed before, Nintendo has operated based upon our basic strategy to "Expand the gaming populations" and have been able to significantly expand the total video game market in the last two years." - Nintendo.com

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/080425/06.html

From their mouths.

Of course it is expanding faster, in revenue.

In sales it is still expanding just like it always has done. And at the moment Nintendo is the main reason for that (last two generations it was Sony being the main reason)

What? "like it always has done"?

Last gen (average on 6 years):
PS2: 16.5 mill per year
GC: rufly 3.5 mill per year
Xbox: rufly 4 mill per year
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= 24 mill per year

2007: 33 mill PS360+Wii

2008: 48 mill PS360+Wii

This year will see double console sales of average in last gen. That is not expanding like it always has done. That is HUGE expanding of video game market.

 

 

Firstly this is USA only.

3rd gen - approx 40 million (34 for NES)
4th gen - approx 45 million
5th gen - approx 65 million
6th gen - approx 85 million

That is your generational increase. (home console only) Now for the time into gen.

This is the sales of 6th gen America as of June 2003 (2.5 years after launch of PS2, 1.5 after other two)

ConsoleMonthlyTotal
579,804 16,733,918
367,582 20,559,358
135,596 6,080,594
109,833 4,528,470

That's a total of about 31 million home consoles (not including over 4 million Dreamcasts)

This generation we have this:

ConsoleMonthlyTotal
679,499 23,702,786
652,799 12,544,386
282,174 13,005,705
269,677 5,213,237
236,895 11,836,392

A total of about 30 million home consoles. LESS than last gen (mainly due to the market leader being the early bird in 6th gen, had it been Wii to launch first it would probably be slightly over last gen)

Handhelds have a different launch period DS+PSP have been out for a year and a half longer than GBA had (and there ae two consoles compared to one)