The Zombie Industry is taking a $5 billion bite out of the American economy yearly; half of which is from the gaming industry, tying them with film for first on the list. Here's what the experts at MSNBC had to say concerning zombie video games:
… Series of games under such franchises as "Resident Evil," "Doom," "Dead Rising," "House of the Dead," "Call of Duty" and the new wave of PC and tablet games like "Plants vs. Zombies" are worth millions of dollars. The various "Resident Evil" titles from Capcom have sold roughly 46 million titles. Doom sold more than 8 million copies. And the Nazi zombies were responsible for many more expansion packs and raw "Call of Duty" sales. In fact, many observers believe that, when it comes to zombies, the video game industry is larger than the movie industry. To smooth out the sales through time, we used a theoretical $29.99 average per "Resident Evil" title for a low-ball figure, which comes to more than $1.3 billion. By the time we add the used video game title market, the arcade segment, console sales, and the PC and app-version games, the figure has to be at least $2.5 billion. And that is conservative.
They add that,
In all honesty, this tab is grossly undercalculated in each category. By the time you add the money spent in total around the zombie genre, the figure is much higher.
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With the recent, massive success of The Walking Dead, I'm not surprised that there's such a enormous following and it's only logical that it would translate into the gaming industry.
Let's just hope it doesn't translate into real life.
