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The state of face-to-face gaming...
Mar. 15th, 2006 09:22 amI picked this up from the City of Heroes forums. Here's the key quote from the post:
In speaking with the director at a major industry marketing firm, I learned that over 1100 brick and mortar retail stores selling games have closed down in the past year; less than 200 new stores have opened in that same time period. That's about 25% of the industry's distribution network. Also, overall industry sales figures are down somewhere in the order of 30% (I forget the exact number, but it's around there).
Some of this is clearly contraction from the state of overexpansion that arose from CCGs and various mini games. But what is the real state of the industry today? Is it an overexaggeration to think that the pen & paper RPG genre is dying as well?
( More ponderings on the future of gaming )
In speaking with the director at a major industry marketing firm, I learned that over 1100 brick and mortar retail stores selling games have closed down in the past year; less than 200 new stores have opened in that same time period. That's about 25% of the industry's distribution network. Also, overall industry sales figures are down somewhere in the order of 30% (I forget the exact number, but it's around there).
Some of this is clearly contraction from the state of overexpansion that arose from CCGs and various mini games. But what is the real state of the industry today? Is it an overexaggeration to think that the pen & paper RPG genre is dying as well?
( More ponderings on the future of gaming )
