UKResistance has published some hardcore statistics relating to the sales of videogame hardware in the UK. The figures show the immense growth that the UK games industry has experienced, but interestingly the Xbox 360 clearly leads the home console market this year with 3.14 million units sold in comparison to 1.57 million for the Wii (limited by supply perhaps) and 930,000 for the PS3.
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A look into the sad trajectory of indie games from high successful releases to complete irrelevancy in just a few weeks or months.
That's the thing with gaming there's always new experiences to have why spend months or years playing a single game when there's a new experience right around the corner.
Indie or AAA if your building your game expecting long term player counts you'll probably be disappointed as gamers often enjoy something for a few weeks and move on only to return if it's truely a classic.
Out of all the generations I've experienced there's games from 30 plus years ago I still dust off and play like super Mario bros, earthbound, vice city and san Andreas being games I treasure and revisit every few years but I'm not going back to play a game designed to keep me engaged for months on end because it's also designed to milk my wallet in most cases.
Build a great game that people love make it playable offline and ask does it matter if the concurrent player count is under 100 a year post launch more often that not it doesn't
GL: "Staff writer Shaz reflects on his small library of physical games he's kept throughout the decades, and how a recent move made him nostalgic."
I lost my drive for collecting physical games due to many discs lacking the whole complete game. Instead, of collecting games I started collected figurines.
I am a collector have a room dedicated with a couple original arcade cabinets, physical game library, old and new consoles and controllers backlit with LED lighting. It’s very cool to have but with emulation being so strong and prevalent, I sometimes feel foolish because the hobby is expensive and like another said, the full game is not always on the disc. Could probably spend more wisely but I enjoy it.
...more facts for you to avoid and remain in denial.
@2: One bubble is the price I paid for the truth.
@3.1: Bubble for you sir.
@4: Everyone is bias right?
Maybe thats why Phony will be forced to reduce their price on the PoS3, because everyone is "BIAS". Laughing@Lemmings.
@1.1: Read again sugar hill
"...the Xbox 360 clearly leads the home console market this year with 3.14 million units sold in comparison to 1.57 million for the Wii (limited by supply perhaps) and 930,000 for the PS3."
@3.3: Word up bro, bubble for you everytime I see you post. pe@ce.
@8: Another lemming in denial.
I wonder why?
Quit Trolling.
And Quit calling people names thats not nice :)
Go play some video games.
take in account the 33% failure rate and we got? A joke and a garbage system called xbox. Close your eyes blind xbot its going to be a scary year for you. This means nothing for a dying system and noone will miss it.
Why woudl you trust anything from them?
One of hte most bias I seen