Comments on: Game Hurt By Worsening Consumer Outlook But Digital Sales Growing http://paidcontent.org/2011/11/16/419-game-hurt-by-worsening-consumer-outlook-but-digital-sales-growing/ The economics of digital content Wed, 22 May 2013 08:14:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Wayne Bevan http://paidcontent.org/2011/11/16/419-game-hurt-by-worsening-consumer-outlook-but-digital-sales-growing/#comment-86196 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:50:39 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/11/16/419-game-hurt-by-worsening-consumer-outlook-but-digital-sales-growing/#comment-86196 I’m almost certain that if the game manufacturers are producing good games, that they have no worries in shifting stock. The figures from both Call of Duty and The Eldar Scrolls: Skyrim in the last week are more than impressive. Both games offer the opportunity of over 100 hours of entertainment, possibly a lot more. For a maximum price of £40, it’s not only cheap entertainment, but certainly a growing alternative to the rising costs of going out and throwing money at other forms of entertainment.

Remember the increase in board game sales in the 80s? That wasn’t because of a growing economy, it was because people couldn’t afford to leave the house.

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