Nikosandros
Golden Procrastinator
Do they also have data for the more recent books?
I believe you were reading that wrong.I do not think this is true. Slaying the Dragon has supposed 1st edition sales numbers, according to them Basic D&D (which would be the red boz) was selling 500,000 units a year in the early 80s and the 1st edition PHB and DMG at the time were each selling over 200,000 units a year.
Here is one post from the past on this:
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D&D General - TSR D&D sales numbers compiled by Benjamin Riggs
D&D historian Ben Riggs--author of the upcoming Slaying the Dragon, which is a history of TSR-era (not that TSR, the real one) D&D--compiled some sales figures of AD&D 1st Edition's Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide from 1979-1990. Behold! Some actual D&D sales numbers! While...www.enworld.org
I believe you were reading that wrong.
The PHB was only in the 2-300 000 range for three years. Most of the lifespan of 1e, it was selling in the 1-200k range.
Heh, when I was a kid in the mid-to-late 80s, just about all my D&D books came from Waldenbooks. I never knew back then that there were gaming stores.I've seen them there, I just assumed (for no particular reason I guess) that they didn't sell much. I've never thought of buying D&D stuff at a bookstore.
I don't think there's any doubt that 5e is the most popular version of D&D. I don't think that can be disputed.
What blows my mind though is that it keeps growing. We still haven't peaked. Year on year of fantastic growth and it's still chugging along.
I remember when 5e was the Hail Mary edition to try to keep the lights on.
Why are you saying that?Newer adventures are selling around half the older ones in their first few weeks. Not sure what that indicates. Edition fatigue maybe or to many adventures if you've been buying for a while idk.
Why are you saying that?
I've also read the claim that the newest releases are selling less well, but I haven't waded into the 2-hours+ video and that's why I made my earlier post. I was hoping someone had watched it and could corroborate or confute.Why are you saying that?
Thanks.I watched the 2 hour video which included the sales for the first 4 weeks.
Older adventures will generally have higher lifetime sales.
The newer adventures aren't selling as well comparatively.