{"id":59637,"date":"2013-10-27T00:26:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T22:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=59637"},"modified":"2013-10-27T00:28:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T22:28:05","slug":"musica-losing-money-on-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/59637-musica-losing-money-on-gaming","title":{"rendered":"Musica losing money on gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African music and entertainment retailer Musica has revealed that the company is losing gaming sales.<\/p>\n<p>Musica saw a 14.7% decrease in gaming sales from 2012 to 2013, with market share falling from 9.8% (2012) to 7.3% (2013).<\/p>\n<p>PwC recently released their annual analysis of the South African entertainment trends in their 4th Annual South African Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2013 \u2013 2017 forecast, and the reports showed that the <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/59619-sa-pc-game-market-in-decline-report.html\" target=\"_blank\">SA PC gaming market is slowly declining<\/a> while the console and mobile market is still on a growth trend.<\/p>\n<p>MyGaming also caught up with <a href=\" http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/59191-rand-exchange-leap-and-its-sa-retail-effects.html\" target=\"_blank\">local retailers to find out how the market is doing<\/a> and how they are reacting to the exchange rate.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clicksgroup.co.za\/IRDownloads\/AnnualResults2013\/AR2013-Management-Presentation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Clicks Group annual results<\/a><\/h6>\n<p><b>More gaming news<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nintendo 2DS: SA pricing and availability announced\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/59278-nintendo-2ds-sa-pricing-and-availability-announced.html\"><b>Nintendo 2DS: SA pricing and availability announced<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/59533-fnb-xbox-360-bundles-offered-to-customers.html\">FNB Xbox 360 bundles offered to customers<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/59314-sa-pc-game-prices-where-are-the-cheapest.html\">SA PC game prices: where are the cheapest?<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/59346-ps4-sa-pre-orders-can-you-risk-waiting.html\">PS4 SA pre-orders: can you risk waiting?<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SA retailers sees a decline in gaming revenue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":59638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11590,21,7195,2752,5793,11591,5794],"class_list":["post-59637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-gaming-sales","tag-headline","tag-musica","tag-sa-gaming-market","tag-sa-gaming-news","tag-sa-gaming-sales","tag-sa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}