Purple Pawn’s 2012 Game Industry Survey

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1. Paul Owen on 08.03.2013 at 22:32

   I was skeptical about one observation in the report: “Amazon.com doesn’t list Monopoly in its top selling games.” In fact, when I checked today, Monopoly appears as #54 among Best Sellers in Games and has been in the top 100 for 2796 days (over seven years).

   1. shadejon on 09.03.2013 at 12:01

      Thanks, Paul. I should have been more specific. I asked for the top five game lines from each company, and Monopoly is not in the top five at Amazon. That it’s not even in the top twenty is remarkable.

2. shadejon on 10.03.2013 at 10:03

   Also note in the report where I wrote: “Mainstream game sales are driven by brands and licenses” should read “Mainstream game sales are often driven by brands and licenses”. Many mainstream games are developed and targeted by their mechanics.

   I apologize for my overreach.

   Yehuda

3. Katja Killingsworth on 04.03.2014 at 20:01

   I find the info above incorrect and I think making this survey world wide suits nobody.
   the list of manufacturers most wanted is totally off. I have been selling 12 years and games Workshop has ALWAYS been the top product worldwide. Most of the manufacturers you list I have hardly even heard off and I do a lot of research on makers that are in style.
   Not sure what kind of stores the people run that send in the surveys…..this is all a little too broad to be truly helpful.

   1. Yehuda Berlinger on 05.03.2014 at 02:28

      Kotja, thanks for your comment. The number of people sending responses was particularly low for the 2012 survey, so that could affect the results. Or it may simply reflect a broader market than the one you survey.

      If you would like survey results for a particular distribution area, you are welcome to contact me for more localized survey results.

      In order to have the best results, your input – and the input of other stores like yours – to this year’s survey is important.

      Yehuda

4. Lewis Pulsipher on 09.03.2014 at 09:14

   Games Workshop is its own separate hobby. Where their products sell, they sell extremely well. But in most places involved with games they don’t sell at all.

5. Tommy on 02.04.2014 at 09:40

   Just a thought, but I would recommend a greater focus on playing card games. There are 100s of thousands of people playing cards every night across this country. Keep up the good work.

   1. David Miller on 02.04.2014 at 11:54

      What do you recommend focus more on card games? The survey? The website? And in what way?

6. Charles Phillips on 04.04.2014 at 12:01

   We’re one of those very small one-product table-game companies. We also are strong believers in the multiple benefits from table games. The feel of physical objects, the physical actions, the natural sounds, the visible emotional reactions, the time to think and reflect and strategize, the naturally induced laughs and gasps, the player controlled pacing of the action, the emotions behind the drama, the depth of interaction, the conversation, personality discoveries, the range of benefits. Of course these elements vary from game to game. If a product offers these, it may take time, 5 years so far for us now, eventually through random occurrences, it should get through the cultural traditional definition of games and onto the playing table. We’re hangin’ and hopin’.

   Keep up the good work.

   Charles

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