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Visualizing a tough year for the retail core game industry

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The headlines for falling sales in the core retail game industry have been bleak for the whole year. Here’s a visual representation on just how bad it has been, with double-digit sales declines in every single month compared to a year ago. Statista built the chart from data collected by market researcher NPD.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.