PushStartSelect: "NPD numbers are released, and as many of you know this is the “official” sales numbers of every video game out there. I expected sales to be somewhat dwindle, but of course people take the numbers and create a panic by calling it failing numbers. While the numbers are indeed low, lets take a second to step back and look at the outside sources causing lower sales numbers. Before you jump to conclusions, no the Angry Birds market is not stealing the buyers…."
Over the last 25 years, there has been a fair few South Park games, and here GameSpew has ranked them all from best to worst.
We are going to see a lot of crap South Park products since they sold out to paramount years ago. It's their IP they can sell out, of course; it just means the quality of their show has tanked and other products as well. Nevertheless, they put on excellent musicals, but those haven't been sold to a mega corporation.
"Global indie publisher ESDigital Games is thrilled to announce its participation in London Games Festival 2024 from 9th - 20th April at venues across the city." - ESDigital Games.
Game Rant chats with the creator of No More Heroes about who he would like to see play the role of Travis Touchdown in a live-action adaptation.
Actually Ryan Gosling makes a ton of sense.
Edit: If this can be done in a Scott Pilgrim movie kind of way that would be dope.
I wish the article was right but there are a number of sources that are showing the game industry is failing.
Don't trust the NPD numbers. For one they don't track digital sales, which are becoming more and more popular. Plus if I remember right big retail chains like WalMart don't disclose their numbers.
Also, the reason why sales are down is because we're at the end of the generation. It's a fact that sales tend to slip near the 4th or 5th year, which usually is the end of a console's life cycle, then the new generation systems come out and numbers go back up. But since this generation has gone on longer than any other, the sales seem dire, but it's natural (the weakened global economy doesn't help either). Once the Wii U and the other next gen systems come out, then sales will pick up. It's a cycle that always happens and for some reason these experts can't pick up on that but some asshole like me that spends way too much time on the internet can?
Nope, it's not. NPD doesn't paint the whole picture. Not just of things here in the States, but because of things like economic pressures and the rise of digital sales, the "official" numbers of games will be off by quite a bit on many- if not most- games.
Console sales slowing is affected by the first half- the economy- at the least, and there are definitely some who have bought all the consoles they're going to buy this generation.
People really need to stop making decisions based on partial information.