This issue includes: Spring 2022 market reports and top seller lists for games and comics/graphic novels. Also features the full year 2021 market size analysis and breakdown for hobby games and comics.
Best selling RPGs in Spring 2021: Cyberpunk RED RPG climbs the charts
Working with CD Projekt to compliment Cyberpunk 2077 and to fit into the timeline just before it, team Pondsmith released Cyberpunk RED. It’s a tabletop prequel to the computer game.
The Game Manufacturers Association to vote on a dramatic restructuring
GAMA also makes 70% of its revenues from events. That’s hardly healthy in a world of lockdowns and the group needs to diversify.
ICv2’s retail chart puts Pathfinder behind D&D as best selling RPG of the winter
D&D, as you would expect, tops the ICv2 bestseller RPG chart autumn 2020 composed of data taken from retailers, distributors and manufacturers in North America.
ICv2’s latest best-selling RPG chart is full of mysteries
ICv2 is a site about the tabletop hobby industry (board games, card games, wargames, etc) which is primarily intended for shops and press.
Thousands of American game stores affected by Asmodee USA distribution changes
Thousands of games stores in America can now order games directly from Asmodee, even if they’re not an Asmodee game.
Sci-fi RPGs outnumber fantasy 3:2 in the latest RPG sales chart
One of the sci-fi triumvirate is the Star Wars RPG, which has been in the top five for the previous 9 years.
License dispute stops The Cimmerian: Queen of Black Coast orders
The US giant Diamond Comic Distributors no longer makes mention of Ablaze’s uncensored Coman series The Cimmerian: Queen of Black Coast.
Two of the three best-selling RPGs in the last quarter were sci-fi games
Other issues in the RPG landscape discussed by retailers included the dangerous cost of Kickstarters, Amazon’s ability to discount Wizards of the Coast products and the leadership of GAMA.
Comic book and graphic novels sales rebound in North America
A historic shift is playing out as the market grew, primarily in the book channel, in 2018.
