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Titled: Some Video Game Industry Statistics That May Shock You...
Some Video Game Industry Statistics That May Shock You...
Article Summary: A recently released video game survey report is shocking both consumers as well as industry leaders.
A recent video game survey report (Games Segmentation 2008) was released Monday morning by the business industry analyst firm, The NPD Group. This survey was given to video game fans of all kinds, 20,000 of them to be exact. Although the most interesting statistics come from the segment of gamers known as 'extreme gamers', or those who put in as much time as somebody would in a full time job (45 hours average). It is nice to know that although we do not get benefits or insurance we are still recognized for our button pushing.
The results of their report showed that gamers from this demographic basically help carry the video game market or at least pad it very well. With an average of 24 titles bought every quarter by extreme gamers.
Although extreme gamers only make up only 3% of the estimated 174 million gamers that play on PC's, Macs, and consoles, they are a force to be reckon with. To put it more clearly 5.22 million people are putting both serious time and money into the video game industry. If you where to break out your calculator you would find that at around $40 a game, this ends up working out to just over 5 billion dollars spent per quarter by this small fraction of the gaming market.
However what the report fails to show is that many of the 'extreme gamers' also make up a large percentage of those who mod their consoles and make copies of video games. This is based on industry experience and by surrounding ones self in the video game scene.
I am sure that many of you may be scratching your head thinking, ' game pirates are responsible for such a big chunk of video game sales?'. This is due to the fact that such a negative light has been cast on the game copying industry. With strict laws that contradict the "Fair Use Act", it is no wonder why the government and press portray game copiers as bad people.
But the fact still remains that many gamers are simply trying to protect their investments from losses due to damage and theft. With a new game costing as much as $60 these days, don't you think it is worth protecting from such threats, even if they may be your own children?
Most recently how to guides and tutorials have been surfacing on the internet. These guides take even the most novice of video gamer and teaches them how to make working backup copies of their video games.
The pioneering guide (A Console Gamers Little Black Book Of Dirty Secrets) was made available to gamers everywhere back in December of 2007. Since then thousands of people have flocked to get their hands on this knowledge.
As long as everybody (at least the majority) uses this guide responsibly their should be a positive impact on video game sales. With money being saved by consumers from having to not rebuy their damaged titles there will be more of a chance to expand their gaming horizons.
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Terry Brazil
Written by Xtreme GamerX, chief game copying specialist at http://www.gamecopyingguide.com
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