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U.S. videogame sales fall again in November

article published on 11 December, 2009

The U.S. videogame industry has fallen once again, says the NPD Group, dropping 7.6 percent for November, lamely entering the holiday season on a low note. Overall, hardware sales fell 13.4 percent while software sales dropped 3.1 percent. "This should not be viewed as a healthy start to the holiday season," says top videogame industry analyst Jesse Divnich. The sales slump is ... [ read the full article ]

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Hellrasin
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_ 		11. December 2009 @ 03:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Of Course there's a "DROP" in Consumer Spending for the Video Game Industry. With the current "State" the US Economy is in Consoles for Microsoft/Nintendo/Sony are going to be 1/2 of what is expected. More
people are buying the games 1st Consoles later when its reasonable to do so. And as a result the Big 3 will speculate that losses are due to Piracy which is the horse used with a downward slopping economy
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SDF_GR
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_ 		11. December 2009 @ 05:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I it is absolutely normal for november, every year we say same things for same news.
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_ 		11. December 2009 @ 08:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Hellrasin:
 Of Course there's a "DROP" in Consumer Spending for the Video Game Industry. With the current "State" the US Economy is in Consoles for Microsoft/Nintendo/Sony are going to be 1/2 of what is expected. More
people are buying the games 1st Consoles later when its reasonable to do so. And as a result the Big 3 will speculate that losses are due to Piracy which is the horse used with a downward slopping economy
The "Big 2" might complain about piracy. Sony can't blame piracy. Why would they with year-on-year rising sales? And why would their sales be "1/2 of what is expected" with a year-on-year increase?

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Tecbot
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_ 		11. December 2009 @ 11:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The ps3 alone did over 760k units sold worldwide during black friday week....a few days ff releases in japan the one console that wont be hurting this season is the ps3, after x-mas it has some amazing titles hitting to keep the ball rolling this year.
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_ 		11. December 2009 @ 11:37 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
And Jagoff Activision's pricing of the "Most popular" game at 59.99 of COD Modern Warfare 2 doesn't help with sales on the PC.
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borhan9
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_ 		11. December 2009 @ 17:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Well we do have to realize this year the world has had a massive decline in consuming things because of the financial crisis that the world was going through and is still going through in the USA soo wait till next year and numbers can or may improve.
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