Ah, surveys. Is there anything you can't tell us that we don't care about? The NPD Group has conducted a survey on game packaging that managed to yield one interesting factoid: 11% of all households own games that are still shrink-wrapped.
According to Gamasutra, the study was a poll of 562 gamers who had bought a game in the past six months. Unless my Windows calculator is on the fritz, that means there's at least 61.82 gamers out there with unopened games. Not sure what's sadder - the fact that there's so many people with unopened games or that there's someone out there who's only considered .82 of a person. Poor guy.
11% doesn't sound like an outlandish figure, though. People get crappy/duplicate games all the time during the holiday season. Gotta be a few rare game collectors out there, too. Personally, I own a shrink-wrapped copy of the 1997 real-time strategy game Total Annihilation. Picked it up with the remaining balance on a gift card I used to buy Alpha Centauri. Will I ever play it? Meh. Too lazy to install it and too lazy to sell it - woe is me.
This site is operated by Cinema Blend LLC. For advertising inquiries, contact Gorilla Nation. CinemaBlend.com is a private, independently owned website which is intended only as entertainment. The views expressed on this website may or may not reflect those of its owner. Don't take us too seriously.
Ah, surveys. Is there anything you can't tell us that we don't care about? The NPD Group has conducted a survey on game packaging that managed to yield one interesting factoid: 11% of all households own games that are still shrink-wrapped.
