Game Market is going down
According to recent findings from Top Global Markets that integrates monthly report from leading providers in the video games industry - The NPD Group, GfK Chart-Track Limited and Enterbrain, Inc., combined video game software unit sales across the world's three largest games markets experienced a decline of 8 % in calendar year 2009 (Jan.-Dec.), totaling 379.3 million units.
The declines had been more modest in Japan, which experienced a 2% decline in software units (5% decline in console software and a 1% decline in portable game software). The United States and UK saw respective declines of 7% and 14%. In the U.S., console and portable software experienced respective declines of 7 percent and 8%, while UK units saw respective declines of 6% and 25%.
Continuing the trend from 2008, the overall gaming software market in 2009 declined in large part due to the shrinking PlayStation 2 software market, which experienced a 57% decrease across the top global markets in 2009 based on units (U.S. -56%; UK -67%; Japan -55%).
2009 Top 5 Video Game Titles Top Global Markets Report (Ranked By Units)
1. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision) 11.86m
2. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo) 7.57m
3. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo) 7.41m
4. Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo) 5.80m
5. Wii Fit (Nintendo) 5.44m
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