Armchair Speculation Pt 2

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Friday, March 01, 2013, 15:52 (4288 days ago) @ narcogen

So the contraction in the total market may be smaller than it looks from just the retail market figures. He's not even sure that digital sales don't completely make up for the shortfall, which would mean that as far as developers and platform holders are concerned, there is no contraction-- there is only a shift from retail to digital. He can't be sure which is the case because nobody reports those figures in a way comparable to the NPD's retail figures, so there's no reliable metric for it.

There is a huge contraction even accounting for digital sales. Pretending digital sales make up for it and saying there's nothing wrong is how bubbles start.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-02-25-industry-turmoil-worst-since-80s-crash-says-bleszinski

One of the biggest designers in the business even says he won't come back till things straighten out.