the problem is you're assuming 40 dollars profit which is not true. Developers have said it takes over a million, it wasn't me.

Nintendo is king and EA is on their way out. All is right with the world.

man if 500k made a profit on HD systems nobody would be losing money right now. Even Bionic Commando would have made a profit.

I didn't read the last few paragraphs but this guy is not very educated. His graph alone can completely contradict his whole article. There are periods in the past in which the industry saw three years in a row of declining retail sales however in the long run the industry only grew. Not only that, the chart is for retail only and each year retail plays a smaller and smaller percentage of video game revenue.

Yes many places have shut down but that doesn't mean the industry is dying it means that there is reorganization within the industry and it is cutting out the fat and making it more efficient for today's market. Developer studios have been shut down but each year indie developers become more and more prominent in the market. So if we are looking at the industry as a whole there is not much drop off.

yea and 20 million has been quoted time and time again as the average.  Bionic Commando is probably right around the average, it shipped 600k and was an epic flop.  Haze sold over 800k and the studio had to close down.  Dead Space sales were called a "dissapointment" and that sold 1.5 million.

Then you should have read it RVDondaPC, because that's not what he was showing with the graph. He was using the graph to show that despite declines this year, Game sales are still at near all time high levels. He's not saying sales are declining. He's saying that despite huge sales, developers are in trouble.

And he's right. If games are selling so phenomenally well, why is it that so many companies have closed down and so many people have been laid off? Try reading it. It's a good read.

dont worry sony will save the day.
you cant blame sony for overall bad sales this year.
but you can blame the red-box. (bad sales)

and you cant forget about the amazing games that sony makes.

its the ECONOMY!!!!!!!

not this guys logic.

that is why companies are going bankrupt the ECONOMY!!!!!!!!