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From: "Todd Tuckey" <tntqual...@aol.com>
Newsgroups: rec.games.video.arcade.collecting
Subject: State of the Industry Survey is out---Look at this!
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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:12:15 GMT
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Got my Playmeter magazine a couple days ago...which is for the whole 
amusements industry.  The annual State of the Industry survey was quite 
interesting...The change from 2006 was this...in 2007, the arcades were 38% 
fewer, Street locations 12% fewer, Family Entertainment Centers 60% fewer 
(!)...total locations down to 225,000 (down overall 12%)...however, it also 
said equipment on location is up 15% to 1.5 billion machines!  BILLION!  The 
industry gross was 5.8 billion for 2007. Average weekly gross of a dedicated 
Video Game is $88--the high point in the last 5 years was in 2005 with $129. 
Average weekly gross of a Video game Kit conversion was $71--a high point in 
2005 again with $86.  Deluxe Video Game Simulators averag $102...a high in 
2005 of $179.  Total of these units in locations in 2006 was 386,000.  The 
high for the last 5 years was in 2004 with 602,000 games!  (the high year of 
2005 had 549,000 games)  Average weekly gross for a pinball is $47--down 
from $48 a week from last year, from $54 a week in 2005, but in 2004 and 
2003 it was $48 a week.  But total games on location is at 33,000 
pinballs--up from 26,000 in 2006!  They took in 81 MILLION..In 2004, there 
were 45,000 pins in location---.total brand new machines purchased  in 2006 
was 2500 (I doubt this reflects games sold directly to the home.)  Of 
course, this does not account for the accounts that do NOT participate in 
this annual survey too...so the number on location is much more.  Anyway, 
does that make anyone feel any better??  Todd from TNT Amusements