Games To Outsell Music, Video In UK

The BBC reports that for the first time, spending on games and game hardware will outstrip sales in the music and video industries. Quoting: "In the last five years the video games market has more than doubled in value, while music sales have stagnated. The good news for game makers in the report was balanced by grim tidings for high street retailers. 'The music and video market is not just suffering from a slowing of growth but a massive transfer of spend to online,' says Malcolm Pinkerton of Verdict Research. It is online sales of CDs and DVDs that have grown rapidly, rather than digital downloads, which still only account for around 4% of music and video sales."

Comments

Re:Duh

[Darkness404]

Yes, but look at the hour to price ratio. A CD is about an hour long, whereas a game is usually at least 30 hours if not more. A CD costs around $20 and a game around $50. The CD costs a whole lot more per hour than the game does.

Poor Comparison

[kramer2718]

They are including games and games hardware. To be fair, they should include dvd players big screen TVs and stereo systems.

Re:Poor Comparison

[petermgreen]

Yes and no, your TV and DVD player will work for any movie released over the last decade and probably the next decade.

In contrast if you want to continue following a game series you will have to buy a new console every 5-10 years (and then sometimes to piss you off even further they go and make one of the games exclusive to a portable console with maybe a re-release on a normal console a year or so later if you are lucky).

In any case you need the TV for gaming as well and DVD players are dirt cheap now so I doubt it significant impacts the comparison.