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<blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 2744315" data-attributes="member: 3586">Just a note:In 2004, the C&amp;GR figures that Ken Hite use put Wizards at about 43% of the RPG market. (or thereabouts). White Wolf was 22%, Steve Jackson Games at 5%, with everyone else below that.Because online and book trade figures are not included in those figures, Wizards could well be somewhat *higher* than that percentage. Charles Ryan claimed last year that Wizards was about 2/3rds of the industry. That might be a little high, but otoh... hmm.I'd love to know how White Wolf are doing. They're in a state analogous to that of Wizards in 2000-2001, with the major revision of their core brand having occurred recently.The bit-player stakes of everyone else is really represented by that 5% SJG figure. It's not an insignficant portion by any means, but it's much lower.(Lovely quote from an anonymous, probably unreliable distributor: &quot;Dungeons &amp; Dragons sells four times World of Darkness and World of Darkness sells four times everything else.&quot;)<a href="http://www.gamingreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&amp;name=Sections&amp;file=index&amp;req=viewarticle&amp;artid=133" target="_blank">http://www.gamingreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&amp;name=Sections&amp;file=index&amp;req=viewarticle&amp;artid=133</a>Cheers!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MerricB, post: 2744315, member: 3586"] Just a note: In 2004, the C&GR figures that Ken Hite use put Wizards at about 43% of the RPG market. (or thereabouts). White Wolf was 22%, Steve Jackson Games at 5%, with everyone else below that. Because online and book trade figures are not included in those figures, Wizards could well be somewhat *higher* than that percentage. Charles Ryan claimed last year that Wizards was about 2/3rds of the industry. That might be a little high, but otoh... hmm. I'd love to know how White Wolf are doing. They're in a state analogous to that of Wizards in 2000-2001, with the major revision of their core brand having occurred recently. The bit-player stakes of everyone else is really represented by that 5% SJG figure. It's not an insignficant portion by any means, but it's much lower. (Lovely quote from an anonymous, probably unreliable distributor: "Dungeons & Dragons sells four times World of Darkness and World of Darkness sells four times everything else.") [url]http://www.gamingreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=133[/url] Cheers! [/QUOTE]

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