well I can see why, there aren't that many games that are coming out that I personally want. It's been a while since I saw an ad for a game that I must have. Apart from madden every year which is a must for fans of the franchise.

1) Game publishers need to come up with something new and different, not just sequels to successful games.

2) I'm not if these new figures account for digital delivery of games. Many opt for downloading games through their Valve Steam Account rather than going into a GameStop or Best Buy.

3) Many people are using their "game time" to play social games on the likes of Facebook.

4) Even through the recession people were buying games. Perhaps the bad economy has caught up with the video game market. It will pick back up.

I am buying games in the past month spanning over april i have purchase Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2, Mass Effect, and Street Fighter 4 for Ps3.

Games have become lame. I can't remember the last time I played a game and really liked it. Maybe I have become older? nah It is definitely the games have become too generic. You played one you played em all.

I want somthing innovating like MGS, just don't see it anymore.

Another reason that would contribute to plummeting sales would be Piracy. Why buy it when I can download for free from http://www.#######.com .

Plus with so much choice involved for gaming (IPhone, PC, PSP, PS3, XBox, Wii, etc) means division of gaming industry. Even if you make a really good game for one of the systems, if you don't make it for others you will restrict yourself to that segment of the market share.

It's just a complete mess IMHO, and there is no easy fix.

The main reason games sales decline is still the ever increasing amount of piracy, now ever more openly condoned by both ISPs and governments with vague laws that state that while providing copyrighted material for download is illegal, downloading and using it is not.
Another reason is the ever increasing popularity of MMORPGs, especially the Korean F2P pvp grinders, which cost tons of money to play (again, especially the "free" ones with their item malls which can cost a serious player hundreds of dollars a month).

The ever decreasing originality of games is a distant third there, but not something to be forgotten.

O yes forgot the MMO's!

Gawd it's worse the crystal Meth, cause noone will admit they have a problem and they are addicts to the games. Parents will take a stance well at least they aren't getting shot or into drugs. MMO's as much as I love them need to end. IMHO.

The minimum salary in my country is only 200$, so I can`t afford giving money on games.

We have Groundhog Day - every game is the close to the same - largely as the people who build the games also dream them up. Akin to a movie cameraman writing the movie script. The industry has got away with it - as it's all new - just like the movie industry in the 20's and 30's. But, there are many more attractions today. The end is nigh for so many developers.

Just take a look at the comments of so many game bosses -eg "we have so many ideas internally we dont need outsiders suggesting game ideas". Crap - and crap eventuates.

i usually dont buy games often because: price, price, price, and also that i dont know if it will work with my computer, i also hate steam.

however im thinking of buying battlefield bad company 2.

My guess is that there were few realese during the time period at question. When World of Warcraft Cataclysm is realesed i promise you sales will be up a lot. I am how ever not intrested in wow, as said before games are too much alike these days. But I have great hope for Guild Wars 2 . What I've heard of the game so far it will revolutionise the MMORPG genre.

//K0nserv

same here i cannot wait for gw2

My reason for not buying games during April is because there really is barely ever anything with an April launch date.Most of the games that people are looking forward to heavily usually come out either June-July or beginning of winter(holidays) for sale. It's not that people wont buy the games its just that the developers of the games that have the most hype don't release them until the months when they will have the most sales being Nov-Dec, June-July,its kinda the same trends with movies O.o

i know why....1st...WE hate steam...u know why...
and nowadays..most of them DOWNLOAD the games from the web which some stupid ass cracked it or do watever thing to post it online and let people download it for free.
from there...it caused the sales dropped...i did buy games..but in my country...some games was like so 'special' and not available in my country...so i download it...tats why...

I think it is because of crisis.And i think that, people will buy the game when the game is designed to work on small configuration of graphics card and processors.

it will bcoz of price,and may be due to the need of highest configuration of graphics card and processors

Yea, I hate steam also, has too much condensation as it cools.
It's time to move on; the next generation or the one after will likely rediscover the thrill of those retro-computer games only they won't be playing them on a computer as we are already moving onto Nintendo, Xbox, Wii, Ipad, android, and that steam variant THE CLOUD! talk about hot air; that is if we survive 2012;)

I'm a PC gamer, seeing as I'm not in America and the price for thise consoles would bankrupt a guy after buying just one game. I used to buy PC games, but then it just wasn't worth it. I like FPS games too, but they are all the same, only considering online functionality. So I just get them online, get a crack and play the single player, or crack it for LAN play with friends.

Even if i could get a console, There aren't any games that really pull me in. My PS2 games are the same as the PS2 ones, jus without the graphics boost

Blah blah blah. What happened to Super Mario World eh?

Go buy some Metriod games too!

(Sorry I don't have an X-Box 360 or a PS3 so I love the old games...)

javanoob101

Blah blah blah. What happened to Super Mario World eh?

Go buy some Metriod games too!

(Sorry I don't have an X-Box 360 or a PS3 so I love the old games...)

That's what emulators are for.