March Game Sales Trend Downward

kukyfrope writes "This is the third consecutive month video game sales have declined from their marks in respective months from last year. March 2006 sales are down 18% from their marks in March 2005. Are gamers saving for expensive next-gen systems or are there a limited number of games worth buying?" From the article: "The estimate also reflects $122 million in sales contribution from new platforms (Xbox 360, PSP and DS) representing year-over-year growth of $58 million (the PSP and DS were available last March), which was unfortunately more than offset by a steeper decline in sales of current generation software (-33% or $157 million)."

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Zoinks! What are we doing wrong here!?

[TheSkepticalOptimist]

Big brand game console developer 1: "We have hyped for 3 years now about a new game console, and delayed shipment to the end of the year, but we can't understand why people are no longer interested in buying our current generation consoles and software titles?"

Big brand game console developer 2: "We hyped about our new product for 2 years, released it too quickly with tons of flaws and lousy game support and we can't understand why nobody is buying our new console and software titles?"

Big brand game console developer 3: "We are nearing the release, but keeping it secret, of our revolutionary new video game console that is somewhat more powerful the the failed console we released 3 years ago, but hoping that gimmicks will make it a huge success. We know why nobody is buying our consoles and software titles (because they are all crap) but we hope that by applying the same concepts and rehashing the same crappy games we will succeed in our next generation game console!".

Video game enthusiast: "Ah f*ck it, just by a PC already! They do more, cost less and are available now with tons of great games, and I can upgrade in a year or two rather then waiting for those schmucks to get their act together and release something good!"