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Recession: Bad & Good For Games

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2008-03-06 10:40:00 by Harold Goldberg in VH1 Game Break
...recession proof. The upshot? If theres a major recession, the likelihood of the game industry getting hit hard rises. If its a mild recession, the industry wont get hurt much Heres what I think. If there is a long-ish recession, the game industry has it covered with casual games. You dont just buy a PS3, Xbox 360 or even a Wii for console...
 
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Pachter: October hardware sales to indicate industry's recession resistance

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2008-11-10 19:30:00 by Alexander Sliwinski in Joystiq
...recession proof , Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter does think that October's NPD hardware sales numbers (expected later this week) will show how recession resistant it is Pachter believes that all three consoles are going strong into the holiday season and expects an 18% hardware sales increase over last year. If he's correct, he...
 
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Video game industry analysts quizzed regarding a recession-proof market, expenditures

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2008-04-10 01:28:05 by David T. in Xbox 360
...recession proof this year Do you believe, or project, that game consumers will spend less, more, or about the same this year How do you think the various game consoles and handhelds will fare in the market throughout this year? Is any one of these platforms going to face sales challenges because of the slowing economy? Williams remarked on...
 
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Video game industry analysts quizzed regarding a recession-proof market, expenditures

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2008-04-10 01:28:05 by David T. in PSP Updates
...recession proof this year Do you believe, or project, that game consumers will spend less, more, or about the same this year How do you think the various game consoles and handhelds will fare in the market throughout this year? Is any one of these platforms going to face sales challenges because of the slowing economy? Williams remarked on...
 
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Video game industry analysts quizzed regarding a recession-proof market, expenditures

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2008-04-10 01:28:05 by David T. in Nintendo DS
...recession proof this year Do you believe, or project, that game consumers will spend less, more, or about the same this year How do you think the various game consoles and handhelds will fare in the market throughout this year? Is any one of these platforms going to face sales challenges because of the slowing economy? Williams remarked on...
 
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Games Industry Not Recession Proof?

2008-09-26 23:58:10 by Billy Kirk in Video Game Media Watch - The Video Game Journalism Review
 
...recession proof games industry and why that perception may be shattered. First, he outlines the two factors that have likely protected the industry in the past Two factors influence this. Firstly, this sector has a very healthy basic growth figure, which is created by the rapidly growing demographic of videogame consumers. The industrys...
 
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Pachter: recession won't affect video game industry much

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2008-10-14 13:17:31 by Isaac C. in Xbox 360
...recession quite well." This is according to everyone's favorite analyst, Wedbush Morgan's Michael Pachter Pachter says that during a recession, people would actually spend more time in leisure and entertainment activity. Only, people would shift from expensive forms of entertainment to cheap ones. Which is only logical, really Following...
 
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Even Wii isn't immune to recession, says analyst

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2008-11-18 16:01:03 by Glenn M. in Nintendo DS
...recession than the usual gamer market. Screen Digest 's senior games analyst Piers Harding-Rolls explains why He points out that the games market is relatively less affected by recession. "The market is very much driven by its own hardware cycles, and that previous cycles have not been significantly impacted by recessions," he said The core...
 
Tags: games, games market, market, casual market, wii, recession, usual gamer market, social games, core gamer demographic
 
 
 
 
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Recession To Hurt Games, Gamers?

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2008-01-23 11:45:00 by Harold Goldberg in VH1 Game Break
...recession as I write. 1Up had an article yesterday about how the gaming companies are being hurt, too, along with all the other big corporations. Said the site, Since the major US trading opened this morning Take Two Interactive (TTWO) has fallen 3.06% in share value, though competitor Electronic Arts (ERTS) has only taken a minor 0.34% hit...
 
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The videogame industry is recession proof

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