Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Monopoly itself, while easy to play, gets bogged down in complexity fairly quickly. To have mass appeal it needs to be less complex and grok-able. So while there are the few breakouts, they are few and far between. Famous games sell because they are famous, as with Catan, but I think that there is also something to be said about the veneer of a game having to do with its sales. And these battle card games are all probably like Pokemon and Magic except without the trading.
I’ve tried looking at other sets, but the prices vary wildly from $10 to well over $1,000.

– can’t match the unit sales of games like Apples to Apples or Cranium. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. How Many Card & Board Games Does the Average Gamer Own? I’m trying to find out how many chess boards (and sets) are sold by country or region. Even games like Pandemic -which has sold probably in the realm of 100,000 units lifetime (total guess – could be off!) Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Under $20 (£15) The board games on the cheaper end of the scale are usually card or dice games without many other components. I see that many of the stats are out of date - … I see that many of the stats are out of date – but they still are a good indicator. I was surprised to see how high some sales were and how low other sales were. Way back in 1997, a totally unknown game company called Outset Media released its first board game. Found another interesting list on boardgamegeek today. This one shows the sales of over 200 board games including uber-popular ones like Monopoly and Yahtzee. That said – making a non-complex game doesn’t mean you’re going to have a huge breakout hit either! Today’s gamers have changed, too. While the basic tools of today’s board games–cards, playing pieces, and the game board–may loosely resemble elements of classic games, many modern games are a far cry from Monopoly. That game went on to become a best-seller, with over 100,000 copies sold across Canada.

Thank you, Good morning Jay, thank you for the write up on board games…with so much on the “technology games” I create a Christian board game thatso Fun,builds up one’s Faith in God,and is very inspiring to the youths! ( Log Out / 
I’ve given prices in dollars and GBP. There are four broad pricing categories for board games. There are some exceptions of course, as Settlers of Catan as sold over 15 million units – with an interesting side note that Mayfair plans to sell one million a year in the near future. I wish it was that easy! This one shows the sales of over 200 board games including uber-popular ones like Monopoly and Yahtzee.

Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Apples to Apples has probably sold around 5 million units (again a total guess – but 5 years ago they said they had sold 3 million units right on the cover of their box). Follow this link to check out the list. Last August, the trade analysis magazine ICv2 estimated that the “hobby games” business in 2015 – that is, board and card games produced and sold for a dedicated “gamer” market, rather than toys – was worth $1.2bn in the US and Canada alone. Almost everything else is a "battle card" game hiding in a board game box. A game like Elder Sign might sell a lot because it is Lovecraftian, but it will also turn a whole lot of people off of it for that same reason. ( Log Out /  Found another interesting list on boardgamegeek today. ( Log Out /  https://moneyinc.com/highest-selling-board-games-of-all-time Average cost of a board game. All I find is stats on all games combined, which is too vague. The global market value of board games, alternatively known as tabletop games, was estimated to be around 7.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2017 and was forecast to …

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  I am slowly learning. There’s a direct correlation between the complexity of the game and its sales – with most of the top sellers being party or family games. But I do think that if you want to make a game that will have mass appeal – then you can’t make it too complex – otherwise you’re only going to be satisfying a niche audience. Lora V Brooks.


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