

Despite declines in its biggest series, Namco Bandai had a good 2012. Not every company is doing poorly, though. Both the machines themselves and the lucrative packaged games to play on them aren’t selling in the numbers that made console games the largest earning force in the $50 billion per year video game industry for years.

As evidenced by earnings reports from Nintendo, Electronic Arts, and Square-Enix in recent days, the console video game business isn’t great at the moment.
