First-party game sales increase more than 10%
Who says console exclusives no longer matter? According to analyst Evan Wilson, sales for games made by Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony are up more than 10 percent for the same period last-generation.
In the first half of 2007, sales of first-party games on Xbox 360, Wii, and PS3 made up 30 percent of total games sales.
By comparison, sales of first-party games during last generation for the same period in 2002 were at less than 20 percent of total revenue.
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"[First-party games] compel consumers to upgrade to new hardware, especially in combination with third-party games," Wilson told GameSpot. "However, it has made it difficult for a few large publishers to maintain their historical percentage industry market share. The net result can be positive or negative depending on the individual publishers, although in every case it exacerbates competition in what is already an ultra-competitive year."
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Translation: And increased number of first-party games is a good for console manufacturers, not so good for third-party publishers whose games sometimes take a back seat to first-party ones.
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