Nintendo Wii Moves on Heart-Health Initiatives On May 17, a marriage occurred that few in the video game or medical communities saw coming, as the forces of heart health joined with the forces of Mario to combat the country’s obesity epidemic...
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Why Toy Sales Will Strengthen But Won’t Beat ‘03 During this year’s Toy Fair and its aftermath, it became very clear that the buyers on my retail panel are taking a much more positive view of the U.S. toy market than they did a year ago...
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Video Games: Year-End Projections February 2009 was the last month in which the video game industry in the United States showed growth. That is why everybody was eagerly anticipating September as the first month in which this negative spell would be broken,...
11/1/2009
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Summary of Online Toy Reviews TDmonthly Magazine’s Review Scout scours the Web weekly for reviews of new and hot products so you don’t have to spend your time searching. Check this space for briefs on reviews and ratings from across the nation and even the globe...
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Nintendo Wii Moves on Heart-Health Initiatives On May 17, a marriage occurred that few in the video game or medical communities saw coming, as the forces of heart health joined with the forces of Mario to combat the country’s obesity epidemic...
Why Toy Sales Will Strengthen But Won’t Beat ‘03 During this year’s Toy Fair and its aftermath, it became very clear that the buyers on my retail panel are taking a much more positive view of the U.S. toy market than they did a year ago...
4/1/2010
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Video Game Sales Will Stagnate Before Surging After several years of steep sales increases, new video game software and hardware suffered a decline in 2009. This is generally blamed on economic factors that began to turn negative in late 2007 and that, still today, depress purchase motivation for both categories...
3/1/2010
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Summary of Online Toy Reviews TDmonthly Magazine’s Review Scout scours the Web weekly for reviews of new and hot products so you don’t have to spend your time searching. Check this space for briefs on reviews and ratings from across the nation and even the globe...
2/1/2010
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Video Games: Year-End Projections February 2009 was the last month in which the video game industry in the United States showed growth. That is why everybody was eagerly anticipating September as the first month in which this negative spell would be broken,...
11/1/2009
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Toys in the News: 7-31-09 Amid a harsh economic climate, Reed Elsevier has put multiple Reed Business Information trade publications, including Playthings and Kids Today, up for sale...
7/1/2009
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From the Big Screen to the Toy Aisle Just as a movie starring an A-list celebrity will bring in big bucks opening weekend, toys tied to famous licenses can also have smashing premieres. Experts warn, however, that it’s important to be smart when buying...
6/1/2009
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Old Games See New Competition It is rare that a large retail chain totally controls a lucrative product segment, but this is definitely the case with GameStop and its used game business...
5/1/2009
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OnLive Threatens Video Gaming As We Know It After a stellar 2008, the video game market is entering choppy waters. January and February were still decent, according to the numbers, but the advent of OnLive and the expansion of used-game sellers are likely to shake up sales in the near future...
4/1/2009
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Video Games Enthrall With Tales and Technology New technology and expanding storylines are drawing in fans of video games this year. The best and the brightest are those that grasp the prevailing technology and take players to the worlds they want to visit...
3/1/2009
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Have Music Video Games Strummed Their Final Chord? When Activision Publishing’s “Guitar Hero III” and Harmonix Music System’s “Rock Band” were released last year, the consensus of opinion was that a new genre had been born...
12/1/2008
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Even Video Games Can’t Win Against Crushed Economy The NPD numbers that came out for the video game space in October did not make for nice reading. After a disappointing August, September recorded negative growth rates for all three main categories: software, hardware and accessories...
11/1/2008
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Music Gives Video Games “Rock” Solid Standing After an incredibly strong seven months, and with August looking equally good, video game producers and retailers are looking forward to the next four months with trepidation...
9/1/2008
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Women and Tweens Flock to Nintendo’s Wii I thought it timely to take a closer look at the Nintendo Wii consumer and how he or she is different from the Microsoft Xbox 360 or PS3 consumer.....
8/1/2008
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Have Virtual Playgrounds Played Out? At the beginning of the year, I said in my article “Is All This Talk About Webkinz Good?” that the top six virtual playgrounds were beginning to face challenges.....
8/1/2008
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Video Game Market Beats Economic Odds June saw an increase for hardware at a 54.3-percent clip, software at 60.6 percent and accessories at 25.4 percent. The entire category grew by a dizzying 57.2 percent. Growth rates in both hardware and software continued to accelerate...
7/1/2008
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Video Game Market Sees a Slowdown June 19, 2008 – I have again analyzed the NPD data that has just come out on video games. The information tallies pretty well with my own retailer panel data and with what the buyers tell me......
6/1/2008
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Lurking Danger for Video Games Video games and the companies associated with them — console makers, game publishers and retailers — are on a roll...
5/1/2008
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Video Games are Nothing to Cry Over Analysts have been crying “woe is me” all week, looking at the April numbers for video games from the NPD Group and lamenting that the end is nigh...
5/1/2008
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Where Will Wii Be? In January I published several buyers’ best guesses as to the most promising video games for the year. In the last column of the chart below are updates of what has happened since...
3/1/2008
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Gamers to Buy Software First, Consoles Second Buyers at the large video game retail chains recently predicted that although consoles drove software sales in 2007, the converse will occur in 2008 as soon as supply of the Nintendo Wii catches up with demand...
