Console sales declining? Market saturation reached?

[Anteaus]

I'm sure that declining sales have nothing to do with the high unemployment rate and foreclosure rates.

Oddly enough, the gaming industry as a whole has done pretty well in spite of the economy. There have been a few developers with layoffs and whatnot, but that can be attributed to poor quality products as much as economic downturn. I guess people take solace in gaming when everything else is crappy.

 

[Stuxnet]

If the original goal was to get consoles out there so money could be made off the software and services, then phase 1 should be considered complete.

 

[Beev]

Yeah during the big economy downturn that happened a couple of years ago gaming was one of the few industries that didn't do too badly.

People like to escape from their shitty world into awesome virtual ones .