TWRoO said:
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.
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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)
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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.
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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)
| Console | Monthly | Total |
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579,804 |
16,733,918 |
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367,582 |
20,559,358 |
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135,596 |
6,080,594 |
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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:
| Console | Monthly | Total |
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679,499 |
23,702,786 |
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652,799 |
12,544,386 |
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282,174 |
13,005,705 |
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269,677 |
5,213,237 |
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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)
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