Game Spendings On Hold

January 16, 2001 7:30 AM

ZDNet has a story about a decrease of sales in the video game industry last year, the first decrease since 5 years. Pretty much all areas were affected, software, actual console sales, and accessories. It seems a lot of people were waiting for the Playstation2, and are still waiting for the Gamecube or XBox. Unfortunately the article is about video games only, not giving any numbers on the sales of PC games or hardware. Anyone here holding out, waiting for the next generation of hardware and games instead?

According to a study to be released Wednesday by NPD Group Inc., a market-research firm in Port Washington, N.Y., sales of video-game machines, software and accessories such as joysticks fell 5.8% to $6.5 billion in 2000 from $6.9 billion in 1999. Sales of consoles, including the older PlayStation machine, Dreamcast and Nintendo 64, declined more than 21% to $1.1 billion from $1.4 billion in 1999, as the number of units sold decreased to 8.2 million from 11.8 million. Sales of game software fell to $4.09 billion in 2000, down 2.6% from $4.2 billion a year earlier.

Maarten Goldstein

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January 16, 2001 7:31 AM

A First Post?
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  January 16, 2001 8:11 AM
  
  A post by any number, is still taking up space on the shack servers harddisk.