The numbers are in and the gaming industry
had a record breaking year in 2005. Barely.Sales of video game related products in the U.S. passed the $10.5 billion mark in 2005 for the first time. The milestone just eclipses the previous high of $10.3 billion set in 2002. The numbers could have been much worse, and, if it weren't for the likes of the Nintendo DS, they would have been.
NPD analyst, Anita Frazier, said, "The real story for 2005 was the incredible expansion of portable gaming, The GBA continued to realize stellar sales, and the introduction of the (Nintendo) DS and PSP to the market brought older gamers to the portable format."
Here at DS Fanboy, we aren't so sure that the PSP should get too much credit for driving game sales given the lack of actual games for that platform, but this is overall great news for the portable gaming community and especially the DS. The momentum continues.
