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On the 250th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...

by Eric Forhan · in General Discussion · 11/26/2003 (5:04 am) · 3 replies

250 Video Games Expected for Holidays.

Wow.

-Eric F
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Torque 3D Owner Frogger
#1
11/30/2003 (4:29 pm)
Whoh! Plenty of children are gonna be pleased this year. And if each game sells an average of 1000 of them, that's 250,000 games sold! And, if each game has an average price of 25 USD, then thats 6,250,000 USD made! I may be over (under?) exaggerating, but thats pretty close... (not including taxes :~)

Torque Owner Davis Ray Sickmon, Jr
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#2
11/30/2003 (11:46 pm)
Under exagerating. Games have a multi-billion dollar sales figure as an industry. The holiday season is one of the big sales points - this probably represents around 1/6th of thier yearly sales. To put it in perspective - games now pull down more than Hollywood does.

Torque 3D Owner Eric Forhan
#3
12/01/2003 (12:34 am)
From the article:
Quote:An estimated 250 new games are expected in this pivotal season for game companies - it accounts for about half of the industry's $10 billion annual sales.

Ten billion clams. That's a lot of shellfish!