GameDaily's biggest story of '07: Record shattering game sales
by Alexander Sliwinski 
on Dec 21st 2007 5:26PM
The
Red Ring of Death's
billion dollar climax,
Blizzavision, and
year two of Wii Shortages were all bested for
GameDaily's biggest story of the year by the gigglebucks of cash the video game industry made in 2007. Not just Nintendo, but everyone (
except Atari), rolled in the sweet smell of dollars, pounds, euros, and yen this year. We already know the
UK is breaking records, but leading up to
November's NPD numbers, the US video game industry is up 50% to $13.2 billion, with guesstimates saying it'll cash-out around $18 billion by year's end. That $18 billion would also be
NPD-tracked numbers and would not account for online subscriptions, casual games, micro-transactions and other incidentals. The video game industry is slowly catching up to the film industry and
surpassing the music industry.
If you're looking for a refresher on 2007, GameDaily covers most of the major incidents from the big
Take-Two CEO ousting in March to recent incidents like
Gerstmanngate. It's definitely worth checking out all the things that made this a crazy and profitable 2007.
Read - The 20 Biggest Stories That Rocked Our World in '07 (part 1)
Read - The 20 Biggest Stories That Rocked Our World in '07 (part 2)
