5395b0 No.16029542
http://archive.vn/tdXfB
According to a report from the ESA and the NPD Group, video game sales reached a record-breaking figure of $43.4 billion this year.
>$7.5 billion of that comes from hardware and peripheral sales, a 15 percent increase from the 2017 figure of $6.5 billion. Likewise, software, in-game purchases, and subscriptions made up $35.8 billion of that record-breaking number, an 18 percent increase from $30.4 billion in 2017. Those numbers come from NPD, with additional figures covering purchases from mobile platforms provided by Sensor Tower.
ESA President and CEO Stanley Pierre-Louis says:
“The impressive economic growth of the industry announced today parallels the growth of the industry in mainstream American culture. Across the nation, we count people of all backgrounds and stages of life among our most passionate video game players and fans. Interactive entertainment stands today as the most influential form of entertainment in America.”
Mat Piscatella, video games industry analyst for the NPD Group Says:
“2018 was another record-setting year for the U.S. video game industry as consumer spending jumped 18 percent to over $43 billion. Whether it was playing on the go on a mobile device or at home on a PC or console, consumers of all ages and interests found compelling content that delighted in 2018. Console, PC, and mobile platforms all saw significant growth, while developing portions of the market like subscription and streaming services gave us a peek into a future full of possibilities for the industry and gamers.”
Thoughts?
d22820 No.16029544
1dfd33 No.16029547
>majority of it is from microtransactions
Well thats that, we're fucked.
2450b3 No.16029552
cba76d No.16029559
but /v/ told me the crash was happening right now?
c8a495 No.16029563
>>16029542
That was the whole last year
it was until recently that normalfags started to notice the shit
So ill wait for next year report
1dfd33 No.16029568
>>16029563
>inb4 20% increase
I hate to be that fag but this can't go well, whales will spend even more with the economy going well.
2e85c3 No.16029572
>>16029542
>all sales lumped together
>not broken down by platform
>no explanation of how they got those numbers
f47546 No.16029573
>>16029552
Fuck you nigger, i am sure you are one of them most likely. Everyone here is a fucking hypocrite virtue signaling to fit in with the current. So much for supporting the developers and buy games because "i am not a nigger gib me dat" right??
1dfd33 No.16029578
>>16029572
True, the larger portion does need to be broken down. The whale menace must be exposed.
692335 No.16029594
>>16029572
>no explanation of how they got those numbers
This.
It's easy to cook up numbers.
Articles like this just screams "throw all your investment money at us!"
If anything, this year it feels like I'm watching an entire house of cards finally starts falling.
It'd be interesting to see what kind of stunt they'll pull next year to kick the can further down the road, and what happens when they finally run into a wall.
964763 No.16029611
I'm still not gonna buy any of your games
2450b3 No.16029613
>>16029573
death to normalfags
228478 No.16029623
>>16029572
inb4 it's all mobile gaming, dlc and whales
3f822b No.16029630
With each year I find myself growing more and more complacent.
Am I becoming a normalfag? I am so tired of resisting
06e6d4 No.16029648
>>16029630
>I am so tired of resisting
Yes, yes, go to sleep goyim.
8a9406 No.16029725
>>16029630
Resisting what? There are no games.
92d522 No.16029727
>video game sales reached a record-breaking figure of $43.4 billion this year.
And you can bet your ass, this attracts all the despicable parasites who think they can get a hand of that money by making tarsh their games.
it's going to get worse.
686b00 No.16029733
>>16029542
I think you'll see something like this happen to the industry in coming years. Most of that money is from loot boxes and other shit, but with governments clamping down hard you may see that loot box money disappear.
69997f No.16029735
We're well past the point of no return
92d522 No.16029736
>>16029733
but they are chasing the commi chinese market. but they underestimate communism and fail to understand china is not capitalist.
686b00 No.16029739
>>16029736
I don't believe for a second the chinks won't pull some bullshit and block western games at some point. We're already seeing tensions rise with the DoTA 2 situation going on.
328752 No.16029806
>>16029739
That would be the best fucking thing to happen to games.
>chinks get blocked off and remain penned in their filthy containment zone
>investors who were relying on the chink speculation get spooked, pull out
>valuation drops, causing more people to pull out
>no more chinks online
>the world is all the better because of it
The second best thing that can happen is that the chinks get fucking nuked, but that's just wishful thinking at this point.
4ecf5c No.16029818
b-but I saw a stocks graph somewhere fall 2% t-the crash is coming!!
e8dd5e No.16029842
Kek, I'd still rather play amateur DOS games from 20 years ago.
92d522 No.16029854
e8dd5e No.16029864
>>16029854
Good shit, Maynard. But I think most of those are actually commercial releases. The pic I posted is literally a Galaga clone someone wrote in QBasic. Kind of like teenagers used to do for fun in their bedrooms on their Commodore 64 in the 80's.
http://www.petesqbsite.com/reviews/action/mooncrap.html
There was also the whole shareware scene that lasted throughout the 90's that was kinda cool. Lots of budget stuff, but some real gems in there too. They got a bigass dump of that stuff here now:
https://archive.org/details/ThesharewareDosCollection
fc640b No.16029875
there are MOBILE GAMES making hundreds of millions of dollars in pure profit
6dcce3 No.16029902
>>16029739
What Dota2 situation?
27cc56 No.16029927
>>16029572
>>16029594
Not to mention the choice of the words sales and revenue rather than the important metric, profit. If the industry was seeing record profit then there would be no reason for them to not refer to that metric instead in their fluff piece. That simple detail by itself tells you that their profit is much less impressive by comparison, if it's even turning a profit at all as a whole, that is.
8504a4 No.16029951
>>16029613
>>16029552
this, I hope some plague wipes out a good amount of population, normalfags are as bad as niggers
003ad0 No.16029965
>>16029573
>pirating games hurts the industry
Said no one ever
5aba66 No.16029981
>>16029559
Retards who think a crash is coming are just as bad as the faggots who think this industry is going to get better. Neither is going to happen, the industry is just going to be a decaying and bloated corpse.
be8f59 No.16030003
>>16029542
These are the two main points for (((them)))
>the most influential form of entertainment in America.”
Means, how can we use this to (((influence))) people? and
>while developing portions of the market like subscription and streaming services gave us a peek into a future full of possibilities for the industry and gamers.”
Means: how can we make even MORE money from people while simultaniously removing private ownership and having full control of the market?
08fc4b No.16030005
>>16029927
Aren't most game studios still located in horribly expensive locations? Can't get much profit with conditions like that.
314e9f No.16030012
>>16030003
since you have a knack for pointing out the obvious why dont you go ahead and spill the beans for me, out of all of human existence why were we born in this particular age?
c8ebaa No.16030017
Post your face when you didn't fall for the free market capitalism meme
f2be99 No.16030023
>cawadookie gay ops 4, red pozz redemption 2, God of Soy, and Spiderpozz lead sales
Normalniggers were a mistake.
be8f59 No.16030024
>>16030012
Just to suffer.
>>16030017
Free market ain't free. It has to be controlled by the consumer. Sadly, most consumers are borderline retarded. Also, it's not like the government is any less evil than big corporations.
843dee No.16030038
>>16029559
the real crash is the hope we lose along the way ;_;
1a6337 No.16030051
So the market grows, but the corporations suffer. Good, very good.
db1a23 No.16030077
>>16029927
This, record revenue means little when paired with record spending, they could be losing money for all we know
1c7607 No.16030119
>>16029927
The problem in your theory is that it's completely normal for companies to divulge gross revenue and not profit. At best you'll also have an estimated cost with a good deal hidden alongside the gross revenue. That's the norm for movies, for instance. But disclosing gross revenue instead of profit is about as surprising and damning as them using english for the press release.
f421f4 No.16030176
>>16029542
They still cry about piracy while endless money is pouring in from normalfags who defend microtransactions and ad-ridden mobile shit.
57bc15 No.16030208
>>16029542
>whether it was playing on the go on a mobile device
So, mobileshit makes money. Great, we already knew that. Now why does that matter to /v/? No one here except faggots in general threads play mobile games. I'd be okay with mobile dominating the market if it meant shit-sucking devs would leave PC and console games to the niche market (us). Anyway, the whole thing reads like a marketing statement:
>consumers of all ages and interests found compelling content that delighted in 2018
for example, sounds so phony and ham-fisted that it makes me think they are either intentionally leaving things out or trying to sell something to someone (or both).
80f767 No.16030216
I don't get it the economy is booming game sales are way up. Why are Activision and EA tanking on the stock market and missing revenue predictions? The entire increase in microtransactions is that waifu rollers are mainstream now.
80f767 No.16030220
>>16030216
Nintendo even said they are going to be putting out 3-4 mobile games a year now to sure up revenue. Specifically stating the success of Fire Emblem the game that sold Nowi fanservice stuff. Their other mobile games besides Pokemon have been a disaster.
b884d8 No.16030221
>>16030012
You weren't born "in" this particular age, you were born "into" this particular age.
>>16030017
>Post your face when you didn't fall for the free market capitalism meme
57bc15 No.16030223
>>16030220
Who would have thought that the only games that sell well are the ones with cute anime girls to fuck? If they put out a mobile Peach + Daisy game where you got to see them in progressively lewder outfits as you "played" read: paid more, it would fly off the shelves in a day.
314e9f No.16030340
>>16030221
>you werent born during during this particular age, you were born within it
sounds like ill be here a while
21dfdc No.16030352
>>16029729
>preferring hot white female for the role
But I thought there was only one race, the human race?
5df18a No.16030356
>>16030119
No, he's right and you kikes will be butchered in the street.
3b1f41 No.16030443
>>16030017
>free market capitalism
Nothing free about corporatism and state capitalism.
a6b57a No.16030475
>>16030017
Who the fuck draws ears like that? It's practically on her cheek
f2be99 No.16030491
>>16030220
Do you think she gets wet from riding that broom?
91e338 No.16030516
>>16029542
Normalfags are fucking idiots
80f767 No.16030592
ccb135 No.16030604
>>16029542
M-muh crash tho
5df18a No.16030617
>>16030604
Your company is failing pajeet.
cbe276 No.16030781
>>16029902
Short version
>pinoy pro players say racist slurs against Chinks during stream
>chinks get ultra mega butthurt, China bans them from entering country
>problem: for the first time TI was moved to China this year
>pinoy pro players are now banned from the largest DOTA 2 tournament
>chinks screeching to keep them out, everyone else screeching to move TI back to NA because we shouldn't have to dance to communist tune
a117e4 No.16030804
>>16029552
>>16029547
>>16029559
This is actually positive as more countries are getting ass blasted they can't tax microtransactions and are planning to cobble them with generic underage gambling. Companies are moving towards a F2P business, but once they'll do that they're going to get the full hammer of "justice" on their precious coinage. Then we'll truly be free, as the only normalfags dumb enough to play f2p shit are those who actually want that sweet dopamine shot of microtransactions.
>>16029736
Actually the chinese pose an even bigger threat in vidya, since they're soulless goblins who are a-okay with censorship in their media. It'll just give more pull to the executives when they wanna remove some wrongthink. It'll hurt the chink sales.
>>16030017
When you give corporations more rights than the individual it stops being capitalism and becomes corporativism.
b05280 No.16030820
>>16029542
Well fuck. Time to work on a counter-attack.
My goal is this: by 2025, global industry revenue is down to $300,000 annually. Plan includes sabotaging events like E3, Game Awards, assassinating criminal ringleaders like Jeff Kaplin, dirty bombs/briefcase nukes detonated at HQs of Sony, Microsoft.
74e3b3 No.16030827
>>16030443
>Nothing free about corporatism and state capitalism.
<haha, the entities competing in free market will do it for fun of it, like children playing basketball after school, and nobody has ambition to become monopoly by any means available
<information asymmetry doesn't exist, and if it does, you should conduct a month-long investigation of each and every product on your shopping list because neither has obligation to disclose its contents
FUCKING KILL YOURSELF YOU BRAINDEAD MUTT RETARD, HOLY SHIT HOW ARE YOU EVEN CAPABLE OF EXISTING
>>16030017
2b9303 No.16030835
>>16030820
>Videogames have become so shit people are planning terrorists attack
I'm in
I guess videogames do cause violence after all.
74e3b3 No.16030842
>>16030820
If I get enough repeating digits will this happen faster?
57bc15 No.16030846
>>16030842
Not the way you're going about it.
11334f No.16030849
>>16030820
>>16030835
>>16030842
I just wanted to play video games
92d522 No.16030853
74e3b3 No.16030860
>>16029729
>appears to be caucasian
I wish I had a 56% face on hand.
a4d641 No.16030861
>>16029547
I think it's just a very small minority of paypigs who are actively fucking over everyone else.
6dcce3 No.16030863
Disheartening but whales are going to always be whales and there's not much I can do about it. I'll still sticking to shit I like so I'm not really that broken up about it.
bad2e2 No.16030902
Whales ruin gaming yet again. No wonder they want to make more addicts than good games.
7d112f No.16030910
>>16030908
Sup jewpill faggot?
7d2c7a No.16030913
Seems to be a little bit too lucrative for that industry. How does that revenue compare to the energy sector's?
5860ac No.16030914
>>16030908
No one's going to go into oblivion with autistic jew. Give up yourself
7d2c7a No.16030924
>>16030908
Stop freaking out, comrade. Get a copy of a game engine of your choice and make your own game. You don't voice actors or a huge marketing budget to make an awesome game and you can sell it on Steam. Unless you're too depressed to start it then you might as well take up tightrope walking. It's great because there's a very high chance you'll lose your balance and fall to your death.
d198cc No.16030930
>>16029733
Not really.This isn't a matter of economics,this is about vidya becoming the main form of entertainment.Also most money comes from software(steam),not loot boxes and other shit.
5df18a No.16030943
>>16030827
Stay mad /intl/