Video game sales surpass DVD / Blu-ray for the first time

Hold on to your caps, folks -- you're about to hear some positive economic news. Baffling, we know. According to Media Control GfK International, worldwide packaged media sales managed to creep up six percent in 2008. Interestingly, it seems that video games were doing the bulk of the driving, as for the first time in recorded history, sales of games exceeded sales of DVD and Blu-ray Discs. Back in 2007, games accounted for 47 percent of the equation, while it scooted up to 53 percent in 2008; analysts are expecting that figure to rise further and hit 57 percent in 2009, though much of this shift has to do with the digital distribution of content and not the disinterest in movies overall. Remember, we're talking about packaged media here. Per usual, loads more numbers await you in the read link if you're the ones and zeros type.

[Via CDFreaks, image courtesy of OrlandoSentinel]

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 24th 2009 6:58AM]

Is GTA part of the blow?

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[(Unverified) Posted Jan 24th 2009 1:49PM]

This should be no surprise, the economy is slumping and games give more bang for your buck... Consider $60 will give you 6hours of entertainment tops with DVD and Blu-ray where with a game it will give you up-wards of 100 hours of entertainment, depending on the game of course, for the same price.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 24th 2009 1:14PM]

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[(Unverified) Posted Jan 24th 2009 3:42PM]

I'm pretty sure Sony is thinking "DAMN! We should have pushed gaming more instead of Blu-ray" :)

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 24th 2009 11:31PM]

I dont for a minute believe that the decline in movie sales has anything to do with Digital Distribution. Their observation about digital distribution wasn't a particular keen one (you take DD revenue, and it's not making up the loss on DVD/BD...so I have no idea why they think it is). I didnt see anything in the article to support engadget's contention that it was fueled by downloadable content.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 24th 2009 11:41PM]

These figures are for net sales instead of unit sales, so this is not surprising considering the fact that the rise of current-gen game consoles have brought about a $60 price tag for new releases (and those $150+ music packages a la Guitar Hero and Rock Band). Couple that with the slowly declining price of regular DVDs and these figures will be less misleading. Now if we could just see BluRay titles continue to drop in price! ;)

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