Video Games Set a Record for Quarterly Sales

Americans stuck at home have flocked in droves to video gaming, sending sales to a quarterly record. From a report: U.S. consumer spending on video games jumped to $10.9 billion in the first quarter, up 9% from a year earlier, research firm NPD Group said in a report released Friday. Game content reaped the lion's share of the spending, $9.6 billion, up 11% year-over-year, NPD said. Top titles included Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, DOOM Eternal, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, Fortnite, Grand Theft Auto V, Minecraft, MLB The Show 20 and NBA 2K20, according to the firm. Sales gains for Nintendo's Switch console offset declines for other platforms, NPD said, sending game-hardware sales up 2% to $773 million. Accessory sales rose 1% to $503 million.

Better Link

[The New Guy 2.0]

Link to the same article on MSN... [msn.com]

"Personal growth"

[enigma32]

Good thing we're all spending our COVID-19 lockdown time (and money) on personal growth activities that matter.

Re:

[moxrespawn]

But lift your face the Western way baby
Build your muscles as your body decays

--Queen

Or, you could go for that "eternal" in Doom Eternal.

Re:"Personal growth"

[lactose99]

As opposed to commenting on Slashdot...

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[sysrammer]

I resemble that remark, you insensitive clod!

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[Luckyo]

To be fair, Animal Crossing would have been super popular regardless. Its target audience is pretty much the same as Sims.

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[alvinrod]

Look here enigma32, a man can only do so many sit-ups in a day, and for this man that number happens to be 6. That leaves a lot of extra hours of daylight and Doom Slayer ain't gonna battle the forces of Hell by hisself!

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[Dutch Gun]

As a professional videogame developer, I'd like to sincerely thank everyone for supporting my financial growth activities.

Less illogical

[cascadingstylesheet]

The games are less illogical than real life right now, so it makes sense.

Sure, Link can carry ten extra sets of armor, 15 weapons, and 40 meals. But then again, in real life, reefer is "essential" and dentistry is not.

What a waste

[zawarski]

of quality masturbation time.

Tax the hell out of video games

[Randj Herdle]

If any govt were truly Communist, this is what they'd do. From each according to their need? Who actually needs video games? Slap a 20% luxury sales tax on them. Anyone too self-centred to not be volunteering at care homes, delivering meals to the self-isolating, or sorting donations at food banks should be paying for the privilege of staying home with their toys. Shelter, food, medicine are the genuine needs. /satire