Video games are hot but playing to the same old crowd. Where’s the future?

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Video games are hot but playing to the same old crowd. Where's the future?

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Video games are hot but playing to the same old crowd. Where’s the future?

A large crowd of video game enthusiasts fills the Xbox game booth at the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo.



Posted: Sunday, December 6, 2015 12:00 am

Video games are hot but playing to the same old crowd. Where’s the future?

By Todd Martens/Los Angeles Times

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The newest “Call of Duty” title raked in $550 million globally in its first three days on the market, a figure that its publisher, Activision Blizzard, touted as the largest entertainment launch of the year — bigger than any movie or album. Days later, game studio Bethesda Softworks said its new “Fallout 4” could bring in sales topping $750 million this holiday season.

But the blockbuster sales numbers obscure the video game industry’s Achilles’ heel: Sales continue to be driven by the hard-core gaming audience that’s been playing the same or similar titles for years.

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