Retail Sales of PC Games Dropped 14% in 2008

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Slimebeast said:

Only $2 billion of worldwide DD sales for the PC is kinda weak.
If retail amounts to just $700mill in the US, that would mean $2.5-3 billion in worldwide retail ----> $4.5-5 billion.

Add a billion or two for subscriptions and u arrrive at $6.5-7 billion for all PC game sales worldwide.

That's a lot less than the $25 billion or so for consoles. I believe piracy is a big reason for the discrepancy.

No wonder there aren't any PC big budget exclusives made anymore (xcept Blizzard).

 

In 2007 the PC gaming market was estimated to be $10.7 billions by DFC: $3.2bn from retail, $2bn from Digital Distribution, $4.8bn from Online and $800 millions from Advertisement.

Anyway, where did you get the $25bn figure from?

And PC games don't usually have huge budgets because they're cheaper to develop and spend little on advertisement. See Crysis, which only cost $22 millions, and is far, far more technically advanced than any console game.