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06.11.2009 10:34 pm

Video game sales figures will continue to fall

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Any question whether video gaming is surviving the recession can be answered by a visit to your local game store.

There, at a glance, you’ll see used titles outnumbering new ones two to one, as consumers start to prefer pinching pennies…

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03.31.2009 11:54 am

PlayStation 2 price cut could stunt gaming’s growth

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Sony's 10-year-old PlayStation 2 might change our thinking about video games.

Sony's 10-year-old PlayStation 2 may change our thinking on video games.

Thanks to Sony, video gaming may have stopped evolving.

Today, the company announced it was dropping the price of its decade-old PlayStation 2 consoles to $99, plus sales tax, from $130. This…

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01.29.2009 10:30 am

Nintendo says, “Ow, Wii!”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Looks like Nintendo’s Wii console doesn’t sport recession-proof Teflon after all …

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01.28.2009 2:35 pm

For sale: One slightly used PlayStation 2. Cheap.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I have a PlayStation 2 collecting dust. I say this because the revelation will irritate some people.

Especially those people who want a console and don’t have one.

My PS2 sits in a desk drawer atop stacks of spare gaming and computer cables.…

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01.06.2009 7:52 am

Japan’s gaming market down; U.S. will follow

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Japan, which is more game crazy than the United States, suffered its first downturn in the video game market last year, with sales shrinking 15 percent from a year earlier, according to the Agence France-Presse news service.

The market was down about…

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11.13.2008 11:59 pm

Video games defy market crunch, sell well in October

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Consumer confidence is down, but you wouldn’t know that from video game sales the past month. Americans spent over $1.3 billion on video games, hardware and accessories in October — an 18 percent increase from the previous month, market analysts…

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