Piatnik Increases Sales in 2009
The Austrian publisher Piatnik doesn’t get a lot of attention from the BoardGameGeek crowd, but every so often you get a reminder that the world of games extends far, far beyond the borders of BGG. Take, for example, this press release, which states that Piatnik increased sales in 2009 by 5% over the previous year for a total of 26 million Euros, with about 80 percent of those revenues come from sales outside Austria. Break down the numbers by titles sold, and that equals 10,000 games and 100,000 cards sold every single day of the year.
What’s more, the party game Activity – a game nearly two decades old, with fewer than 200 registered owners on BGG – has now sold more than five million copies. That’s an amazing amount of activity going on under the gaming radar!
Posted by W. Eric Martin on Mar 13, 2010 at 12:00 AM in Game News, The Industry at Large / 582
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It’s not Piatnik’s games that are “under the radar”, it’s the type of games that the BGG crowd enjoys. Posted by Greg Aleknevicus on Mar 13, 2010 at 01:06 AM | #
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