Shrinking List of Video Games Is Dominated by Blockbusters - NYTimes.com (30/09/13)
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The lower output of publishers makes the stakes higher. In 2012, only half as many new games were released in American stores as in 2008, NPD [a market research company] said
The development costs on Grand Theft Auto V were likely to have been more than $100 million, and its marketing $50 million more, said Evan Wilson, an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities.
Restoring growth in the video game industry is difficult partly because players are spending more time with cheaper and free games. Revenue from the various methods of selling games online, like a $3 version of Angry Birds for the iPad or the $1 required to buy extra lives in the otherwise free game Candy Crush Saga, is by most accounts not yet big enough to reverse the slide in overall sales.
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