RPG's 3 years booming Growth, while Video Games down

[W.A. Hawke Robinson]

According to the hobby game industry trade magazine Internal Correspondence,
it is looking like hobby games, including RPG's, are experiencing an across
the board (pardon the pun) booming growth period 3 years running, while video
game sales were down each year in 2010 and 2011 (still waiting on end of 2012
figures).

http://rpgr.org/blog/role-playing-games-booming-while-video-games-in-decline


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-Hawke Robinson
Role-playing gamer since 1979.
Game master since 1984.
In training as recreation therapist, music therapist, and research
psychologist.
Retired computer scientist.

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My coverage: http://www.examiner.com/article/video-games-sales-down-hobby-games-up-2011

Lots of reasons for this, one of them being the consoles are in their "pre-launch" lull and, due to the economy, are now in a situation where the technology is so expensive to produce a game for the platform that they're having difficulty creating an economic model that will be profitable.

Hmm, need to write another article...