Are Board Games a Threat to Video Games?
Posted by Jeremy M. Zoss at 9:51 AM Feb 04, 2010
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According to members of the toy industry who met this week at the Nuremberg Toy Fair in Germany, the global decline in video game sales is permanent, while the popularity of traditional toys like board games is on the rise.
Richard Gottlieb, a US consultant who chaired the Building Our Future conference at the gathering, said that board games would rise to fill in the gap left by declining video game sales because "Board games are cross-generational. They bring the family together. Children get a tremendous sense of self-satisfaction from being able to beat their parents in a game."
Gottlieb pointed to the rise in popularity in the US of more complex board games like Settlers of Catan (which also has a video game adaptation) as evidence that board games are coming back into vogue. He also cited games like Farmville as driving down interest in retail games - the logic being that as free games gain popularity, consumers will be less willing to pay for digital game content.
Gottlieb and the other experts at the Nuremberg Toy Fair offered no hard numbers to back up their claims that traditional board games will take up the market segment lost by video games, but I can see the thought behind it. Unlike video games, physical board games can't be made available for free or pirated. But the decline in sales of video games is widely attributed to the economy, not a lack of interest in digital games. For the decline in game sales to become permanent, they will have to stay down after the economy rebounds, something that no analyst is willing to predict when video games are more a part of daily life than ever before.
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Is this satyre? Video games sales have been on the rise since the economy fell in the gutter.
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Posted 02/04/2010 at 08:02:22 PMI'm an avid board game player. I've been to board game conventions. A developer asked how many people in the room played computer games, not a single person didn't have their hand up. I doubt very much that anyone is forgoing one for the other. I think it's pretty much the same audience.
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Posted 02/04/2010 at 08:36:18 PMIt's the other way around. In my country, "children" are more into computer games than board games.
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Posted 02/04/2010 at 09:10:44 PMI don't know about taking over, but my mates and I (all big gamers) routinely have board game weekends as they are a lot of fun. Playing video games is not the same as have 6 mates sitting round the table, eating snacks, drinking beer, laying down the smack talk etc.
We have a large variety of games that can take from 30minutes to a day or two so we can bust out something we like.
Check out Settlers of Catan and Carcassonne for starters and also look at www.boardgamegeek.com for more infor on something you might be interested.
Posted 02/04/2010 at 09:51:57 PMBoardgames can't be pirated? LOL. Of course they can! Example: Magic the gathering... photocopy friends cards... print them from all the huge databases of them on the internet, and put them in card sleeves. I mean.. the materials most board games are constructed out of require no more than kindergarten level arts and crafts skills to reproduce. The real reason video games sales are down, is that they're about 10 time the price they should be. $60 a game? I think $3 is a more reasonable price. I'd spend hundred of dollars at that price... but at $60 a pop... I'm spending ZERO. We're sick of being ripped off.
Posted 02/04/2010 at 11:17:31 PMBeing a board game retailer, I have to say that we've seen an uptick in sales. On the other hand, I doubt we'll ever over-take video games. It's a different mind-set and different type of game, which I don't think will ever become as popular as video games.
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