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May was a bad month....

“We expect investors to remain spooked by the May results, as they are beginning to reinforce the notion that the video game industry is in a state of persistent secular decline. We think it is inevitable that there will be a shift in delivery of video games away from packaged products and toward digital downloads, but we don’t expect the shift to manifest itself in a material way in 2010. Rather, we believe that the publishers and developers of games have created more robust multiplayer content in recent years that has resulted in core gamers playing the same games for much longer, on average, than they did in the past, leading to lower sales of new games. We expect the publishers to monetise the value created by online play, led by Activision.

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/39854/Pachter-Industry-in-permanent-decline?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+mcvuk/oXMK+(MCV:+games+industry+news)

What if they stop releasing a bunch of games per month?



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Great news.



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i don't get what he is saying exactly.  sound like he is saying that companies shouldn't release games so soon to each other?  which is great to hear.  i mean heck madden is almost now becoming a game that doesn't come out as often as many others, ha who would have thought that woudl ever be.

but then also sounds like he is saying going to not physical media but digital?  i woudl think the PSPGO woudl scare investors off that route



What if we got a good game that would last for a few years instead of a crappy one that has a sequel released every year?  This would eliminate the problem completely.



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