Tuesday, June 14, 2011

May NPD

Courtesy of the Qt3 forums:
360: 270,000
Wii: 236,000
PS3: 177,000

Also, here's some entirely discouraging news from NPD's Anita Frazier:
“This month's story really is about a light new release schedule as compared to last year. There were 42 new SKU’s introduced in May as compared to 58 last May, and 72 in 2009.”

That's a reduction of over 40%, and I don't think it's a one-month story. That's just part of the suicidal "only release AAA games" strategy that almost every major publisher is following now, a strategy which, for most of them, will end in ruin.

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