Board Game Sales Up 10%, Video Game Sales Down 29%

5 Comments

1. Drew on 17.08.2009 at 22:10

   To be fair, the low Chaotic sales numbers appear to be due to some strange accounting system.

2. Chris on 18.08.2009 at 03:33

   You must be delighted. :)

   I will note that videogame sales always fall significantly in the Summer, but that boardgames do not usually rise in the Summer to my knowledge.

   Part of the problem the videogames industry is facing right now is its arrogant disregard for the needs of the wider audience. It continues to make the games it wants to play and is then surprised when the wider audience isn’t interested. Personally, after almost fifteen years of this rubbish, I am getting sick of it.

   I’d go back to boardgames, but all I did in that space was lose money. :p

   Best wishes!

   1. shadejon on 18.08.2009 at 04:33

      I think the losses are comparing to the same period from last year, not comparing month to month.

      Yehuda

3. Drew on 18.08.2009 at 08:15

   Chris: I’ve noticed that an unfortunate percentage of fellow designers – both traditional and computer – can design only products they want to play as opposed to what a given demographic desires.

   When I was evaluating a designer for hiring purposes, I’d always ask them what they thought of Candyland. Designers who couldn’t get over their visceral negative response and discuss the product’s appropriateness for that target audience didn’t get hired.

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