Sequel Fatigue Cause of Slow Sales?

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday February 8, 2006 @05:09AM from the holding-my-breath-for-the-next-sonic-game dept.

The NYT has a piece which argues that the new console iteration is not the cause for slow sales at the end of the year. Rather, gamers are tired of all the damn sequels. From the article: "... In an industry that has a reputation for growth, the decline certainly clashes with expectations. And there is also evidence that gamers may no longer be as enticed by the type of games that publishers have been putting on store shelves. For the first time in several years, the industry did not have a breakout hit in 2005. Two releases from 2004's holiday season, Halo 2 and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, generated enough anticipation among hard-core gamers that they lined up to buy copies. 'Last season you had some events that drove people into stores,' said Josh Larson, director of industry products for GameSpot, which tracks interest in new games; he was referring to the last two months of 2004. 'There wasn't anything that filled that void,' in the 2005 holiday season, he added." Update: 02/08 18:07 GMT by Z : As much as I like the letter 'q', fixed title.

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Sequel FatiQue? by boldtbanan · 2006-02-08 05:14 · Score: 0, Redundant

Yeah, you have to love that sequel fatique....and how /. moderators know how to spell so well. I mean, the Q key is halfway across the keyboard from the G key (on a qwerty) so don't be calling it a typo ;).