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2005 Game Sales Set Record
Despite a Holiday slump, 2005 game sales hit all-time highs. Gamasutra reports: "The growth was largely driven through an expanding market for handheld systems. Previously dominated by Nintendo's Game Boy series, 2005 saw the market expand to comfortably support three handhelds: the existing Game Boy Advance, Nintendo's 'third pillar' in the Nintendo DS, and Sony's PlayStation Portable. Portable software sales rose to $1.4 billion, a rise of 42 percent over 2004. The Game Boy Advance, due to its longer lifespan and greater install base, still took the majority of the handheld game market, claiming 52 percent of portable game sales."
Now games do not have to be innovative, many GBA DS games are not really THAT innovative BUT you have to add something new or a really big improvement for the gaming public to warm up.
Your comment made me think just exactly how "innovative" a game has to be for me to buy it... And I decided that I would happy if they would port Myst to the DS. I would be even happier if they would port the sequels. And happier still if they would spice those ports up a bit, making them similar to Trace Memory.
So, your comment is just about dead-on perfect. You don't have to make completely unique games to make people happy, but you can't sell the equivalent of a level-pack as a new game for full price and expect people to give a damn.
And I decided that I would happy if they would port Myst to the DS
You know, I had the same thought earlier today. Actually I'm surprised that RTS games haven't found a home on the DS yet.
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2005 Console gaming sets record. not one mention of pc games in it.
The Game Boy Advance, due to its longer lifespan and greater install base, still took the majority of the handheld game market, claiming 52 percent of portable game sales.
So if the PSP is dominating the handheld market with its distant third, does that mean the Gamecube is dominating the home console market with its distant third?
Just curious, because whenever we talk about the PSP, we always say that it's, uh... dominating the market. Even though its selling less, has less games, and is making less money. *cough*
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Phoenix did get released in the US. But Capcom for some reason pulled it from their online store and copies are hard come by and used titles are going for upwards of 50 dollars on ebay.
PW actually was a game in Japan for the GBA ported to the DS. With one case that makes use of DS's many different input schemes. It's quite ingenious. There are games like that in Japan, where game play is totally different than FPS, RTS. Rythm games, dance games, Nintendogs, things like that. I was looking forward to the PW sequel and other crazy games from Japan, but not quite certain if that's going to happen.