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23 Feb
Posted by Yehuda Berlinger as Card Games, CCGs, Classic Board Games, Miniatures, Modern Board Games, RPGs, War Games
Purple Pawn checked over 8,500 companies who make money from analog, tabletop games from across the globe to see if they were still operating. We conducted our annual survey of over 6,900 operating companies and received 391 responses. You can download the 18 page report for free here [PDF].
Summary
Over the course of a year, around 7.5% of the companies in our db closed. Single-game game companies, brick-and-mortar retailers, and miniature manufacturers closed at a higher frequency than other companies. Sometimes new retailers open in the same locations as ones that closed.
We received 391 responses from 35 countries and 39 US states. 2011 apparently was much like 2010. Of those companies that didn’t close, the overwhelming majority are doing fine or even better than last year – only 13% report doing worse than last year.
Among the responding retailers, the top performing game lines from last year – MtG, Catan, Dominion, and Warhammer – were the top again this year (and in the same order). Pathfinder products outperformed D&D products by 2 to 1 (last year they were about even).
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Hi, could you share the complete version of the 2011 Game Industry Survey?
Click the link in the article to download the results. Contact me directly if you require more extensive analysis of the responses.
Yehuda
We have been selling the card game GRASS since 1981 to retailer and via mail order.
It is well received by game players and does generate it own sales based on packaging and game play. “Since 1981!”