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Did you know that the gaming industry is worth more than the movie industry and the music industry combined? Dentsu’s State Of Gaming report revealed that last year the gaming industry was valued at $184 billion, whereas the music industry was $28.6 billion, and the film industry was $33.9 billion.
So it is an increasingly keenly watched segment of the larger leisure and entertainment landscape, and at no time is it more observed than across the Black Friday and Christmas periods, as these are key harbingers of economic activity.
Well, bad news, everyone, as this key period is showing signs that the industry in its current form may be stalling out at the top of a curve.
IGN has reported on data churned by analytics firm Circana. This period, 2025, is shaping up to be the worst November for video game hardware unit sales and the worst for physical software dollar sales in thirty years.
Overall hardware, accessories, and console spending has dropped by 4% and keeps falling. Hardware spending is worst of all, with a 27% year-over-year fall and the lowest number of units shifted since 1995.
Xbox Series hardware sales are down 70% compared to last year, PS5 down 40%, and Nintendo Switch 1 & 2 sales combined are down 10%. Physical software sales dropped 14% year-over-year.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 was the top title period, and that saw a double-digit % drop in sales compared to the last instalment.
The issue appears to be that gaming is now just too damned expensive, with the average price of a console touching $500 and games hitting near $70, then killing you with microtransactions and loot crates. Meanwhile, kids seem glued to online, low-cost nonsense like Roblox and Minecraft.
This means that there is only one thing left to do…
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