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# Someone collated MobyGame’s entire archive (!) and made these graphs
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/someone-collated-mobygames-entire-archive-and-made-these-graphs/
- Published: 2013-01-02T17:00:12.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T14:43:47.000Z
- Description: These graphs, from a larger paper done by Mike Zuurman of Xentax, show a dramatic decrease in the number of games released since 2009. As the author notes, this may be due to decreased reporting by gamers (entries at MG are user-generated), because it doesn’t seem to square that the real number of g
- Author: Joseph Bernstein
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

These graphs, from [a larger paper done by Mike Zuurman of Xentax](http://www.xentax.com/?ref=killscreen.com), show a dramatic decrease in the number of games released since 2009\. As the author notes, this may be due to decreased reporting by gamers (entries at MG are user-generated), because it doesn’t seem to square that the real number of games would plummet at the same time that the casual market has exploded. Still, worth a look and a longer read.

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/figure1.png)](http://www.xentax.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/MobyGames%5FQuantifyMe%5F2012%5Fv1%5Fxentax%5FMWZ.pdf?ref=killscreen.com)

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/figure3.png)](http://www.xentax.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/MobyGames%5FQuantifyMe%5F2012%5Fv1%5Fxentax%5FMWZ.pdf?ref=killscreen.com)