ICV2 Spring RPG Ranking Out

[delericho]

It is weird. Wasn't D&D doing all those Sundering adventures in the Spring?

According to WotC's website, those came out in August and November. So I guess they had had their moment.

 

[fjw70]

$15 million a year in total yearly RPG sales? That seems low. Is that meant to include all sales, retail stores, online, etc? I'm guessing 5E gives that a big bump.

I won't be surprised if 5e reached $15 million in 2014.

 

[Mercurius]

Hobby channel. That's FLGSs. pretty much. They don't have info on online sales and the like.

Ah, makes more sense. That's probably a fraction of the total RPG sales.

I won't be surprised if 5e reached $15 million in 2014.

Well if we're talking gross sales, at $50 a pop for a PHB, you sell 100,000 and you're one-third of the way there. I'm guessing more than that will be sold, but a lot for them for $30ish ala Amazon.

 

[fjw70]

Ah, makes more sense. That's probably a fraction of the total RPG sales.



Well if we're talking gross sales, at $50 a pop for a PHB, you sell 100,000 and you're one-third of the way there. I'm guessing more than that will be sold, but a lot for them for $30ish ala Amazon.

That's just PH. With PH, MM, and DMG coming out this year with an average of $40 a pop it would only take 125,000 of each to hit $15 million. I expect 5e to sell at least that much. This isn't even taking Sterter Sets of ToD into account.

 

[Tush Hog]

I'm going to go out on a very large limb and predict that there will be a new #1 soon and it will stay that way for a very long time.

 

[jodyjohnson]

I can buy half of Paizo's fall releases and all of WotC's releases and Paizo will win the sales battle.

Map packs, flip-mats, pawns, face cards, APs, card games, setting material, scenarios, adventures, and oh yeah some rulebooks.

All while preferring to play D&D 5e.

If one includes miniatures I'll spend more on WizKids product than the other 2 combined.

 

[TerraDave]

@Tusch Hog, welcome to the band wagon...

(I should put my prediction in my sig or something)

And by coincidence, I just started this thread...

http://www.enworld.org/forum/showth...ht-now-on-quot-Amazon-s-Hot-New-Releases-quot

 

[MerricB]

I can buy half of Paizo's fall releases and all of WotC's releases and Paizo will win the sales battle.

It is a fascinating question as to how much Paizo sells to the hobby channel of its non-AP/core books.

A lot of their other content is not really great value for the money; small 32 page books rarely are. Offering them through subscription allows them to do well out of them, but I very much wonder how many copies of (say) the The Harrow Handbook they'd sell without the subscriptions.

 

[Perram]

Smart alecky, and thereby missing the point. How excellent of you.

Let me rephrase - I'd like to see how download of Basic compares with typical (not holiday season) volume of sales. Better?

It would be an interesting number to see, though I don't know if it would mean all that much. Everyone with any passing interest at all in the game probably looked at the free PDF. Clicking a link on RPG sites is a considerably easier investment than spending $50 on a book. (Or less on Amazon, etc...)

 

[Umbran]

It would be an interesting number to see, though I don't know if it would mean all that much. Everyone with any passing interest at all in the game probably looked at the free PDF. Clicking a link on RPG sites is a considerably easier investment than spending $50 on a book. (Or less on Amazon, etc...)

ICv2, given its limited scope and methodology, already doesn't mean much. It serves only as a flawed measure of interest in particular games.

And, in that sense, I think the comparison could be quite interesting.