"The tentacles of the recession have reached into the video game industry, a business that was long considered downturn-resistant." ( Wall Street Journal / wsj.com)
This article was written in 2009. With further
research in the current year of 2012 the U.S.
retail sales of new video game hardware,
software and accessories fell again in July this year. Overall
sales fell 20 percent according to the research firm NPD Group. The video games
fell 23 percent from a year earlier. Nintendo Co.'s Wii U will be introduced
later in the year and the prediction by NPD is that sales will be down from
last year.
“Feeling
pressure from the popularity of inexpensive and easy-to-play video games on Apple Inc iPhone and other smartphones Sony Corp. said it will start
selling “PlayStation-like” games in October for handsets, including those not
manufactured by the Japanese electronics giant.” Sony Play Station
The company
always viewed PlayStation 3, which debuted in 2006, as a product with a 10-year life cycle
and they don’t plan on replacing it at this time.
“Some component suppliers to Apple in Asia say they have received orders to make more than 10 million units of the smaller tablets in the fourth quarter. That is roughly double the order that were placed for Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablets in the same quarter, these suppliers say.”
(Luk, Lorraine. "Buzz Building for Smaller Apple Tablet" Digits technological news and insights. Wall Street journal Blogs. / WSJ.com / October 7, 2012,) Apple Tablet
The iPad Mini tablet is suppose to have around 7.85-inch screen
and a lower price point to compete with newer tablets from Google and Amazon. Apple's
market share of tablets was nearly 70 percent for the second quarter of the
year. Apple is rumored to be revealing the iPad Mini later this month.
In
the Cash Cow= Playstation 3
The
Star=iPAD, iphone,
smartphones
The
Dog=Wii
The
Question Mark=Android and Kindle
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