GameDaily's biggest story of '07: Record shattering game sales

by Alexander Sliwinski { Dec 21st 2007 at 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)

Tags: 2007, gamedaily, year-review

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

roxxxo @ Dec 21st 2007 5:30PM

i wonder where all that money goes

ThornedVenom @ Dec 21st 2007 5:35PM

Into more bags of money.

Robotochan @ Dec 21st 2007 5:39PM

Into the development of the next "It Prints Money!" picture I'm guessing

Robotochan @ Dec 21st 2007 5:33PM

Ducktales Awoo ooh! Siril Snear would also be a good candidate for loaning manufacturing space although there are reports of Racoons foiling such business opertunities

Fernando Rocker @ Dec 21st 2007 5:44PM

Nice picture =)

LaughingTarget @ Dec 21st 2007 5:58PM

I await the day that a Dr. Evil reference will work with the game industry.

One hundred...BILLION dollars!

That won't happen in my lifetime...

roxxxo @ Dec 21st 2007 6:01PM

we could use a "one meellion dollars!" pic to show activision being a bitch to harmonix this week...

Anticrawl @ Dec 21st 2007 6:20PM

@roxxxo

Don't think of it as Blizzavision being a bitch to Harmonix. Think of it as Blizzavision being a bitch to MTV. It's much easier to take that way.

roxxxo @ Dec 21st 2007 7:31PM

well really they're just being bitches to people who already bought gh3 or were thinking about it...which would be their own customers

once bitten, twice shy

Marty @ Dec 21st 2007 6:13PM

Man... when are they gonna release Ducktales Season 3?

Fernando Rocker @ Dec 21st 2007 6:17PM

By the way: Anyone remember Rubang B.?

I use to like his posts.

Anticrawl @ Dec 21st 2007 6:26PM

Yes Rubang was a cool guy and Vlad has always been the biggest dick. Got my account banned because I simply didn't agree with something he said, wasn't anything irrational or angry. I haven't seen him around here in a while, kinda ducked outta the whole Joystiq(and sister sites) scene when he was a big contributer.

Fernando Rocker @ Dec 21st 2007 6:28PM

Yes... I remember Vlad...

He was the biggest dick blogger.

Anticrawl @ Dec 21st 2007 6:49PM

Gonna start a site for the "National Douche Awards" and present Vlad with the "Lifetime Achievement Award."

Haha...

Mr Khan @ Dec 21st 2007 7:20PM

Damn

People on VGChartz sure like to hate on joystiq

Rubang was awesome though, willing to call people out on their BS. I also recall how Vlad was a laughingstock by the end of his career here, after his notorious "round eye" comment that got a comment thread shut down because a race war flared up, and that liveblogging of his friend's reaction to the Wii, which got people leveling all sorts of accusations at him

christmasfish @ Dec 21st 2007 7:24PM

I can't be mad at Vlad because he has such a cute little gray kitty. I can't possibly bring myself to dislike people who take care of their animals.

Yes, that's pretty much my standard for liking people.

Shiro @ Dec 21st 2007 11:15PM

Seriously?

Maybe I wasn't paying attention, but I never noticed that Vladimir was any more of a dick than anyone else...

But now that I think about it, I do remember some talk of the "round eye" thing and haven't seen any of his posts for a long time.

What was the story behind the eye comment?

playwhutyalike (hates games lists) @ Dec 22nd 2007 10:12AM

Yeah, no shit. Rubang was (and still is) the man in my opinion. He has all the facts about anything, and he isn't a dick about it.

Come back Rubang.

Mr Khan @ Dec 21st 2007 7:24PM

Activizzard was only big news because it came out of left field like that. It really hasn't had that much of a significant change on policy yet (although it assuredly will).

Record breaking sales is news, boring news, but news.

I would nominate the Red Ring of Death thing, because it was a stunning reversal in Microsoft's hitherto denial-laced policy to something incredibly consumer-friendly, at a very significant cost to a division that is still struggling to make itself profitable

Shiro @ Dec 21st 2007 11:09PM

I'm sure the policies of the new Activision merger will indeed change in relation to what they would've been like as two separate companies, but the question is how.

Will we actually see any noticeable differences in how they run/ what kind of products they make? We already know Blizzard is keeping their unusually high level of freedom, and that's great news, but I'm not so sure we consumers will even notice a change in anything else the "new company" will put out.

So it's not only difficult to say whether the overall story is even that big now, but who knows if we're even going to remember this a year from now?