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Video Game Niche? It's huge, but i have questions

by theinfomaven
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I'm considering launching a campaign in the video game niche.

The question is, what kinds of products and profit margins am I looking at aside from world of warcraft ebooks or (paltry) amazon affiliate sales?

The traffic is obviously huge, but i'm curious about the competition and profit margins.

Is it worth it? Who has experience in this niche?

Give me the skinny.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris_Willow
    I've helped a few people with projects in this niche. 2 of those were sort of video game sites earning revenue from ads, third one was an instructional DVD on a video game selling for $47.
    If you can get traffic, I'd say a review site/blog/forum/news portal about video games is the way to go (if you can put a twist on it). a bunch of 14 yr old kids are not likely to pay for a big dvd home study course (it didn't go so well), but they are likely to click ads and spend their life in forums discussing the latest video game stuff.

    Either way you'd need to put some new twist on it since there are already a bunch of established sites in this area.

    Hope this helps

    Chris
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  • Profile picture of the author Ty Wagner
    Game testing is a good niche to be in. It gives every person that plays video games a reason to pull out there credit card.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kael41
    I've made good money in the ebay affiliate area with the Wii. I time my marketing efforts with big release launches. I'm a gamer at heart so i know when the big releases come about. The profit margin is huge in the beginning, but with Adwords when more and more people start jumping on board a few days after a launch, the ppc goes up and the profit goes down...
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    • Profile picture of the author Matthew Moyer
      the get paid to test games niche is complete bs

      unless you don't care about scamming people I'd
      recommend to stay away from that niche
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  • Profile picture of the author LB
    Game "testing" is IMO about as viable as paid surveys.

    Most companies are testing games in-house with a very small crew of locals and when they are widely available they do open betas that are unpaid.

    I think the idea of being a "paid tester" is unrealistic and ebooks are capitalizing on an unrealistic opportunity.
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