Slimebeast said:
shio said:
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).
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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.
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Yeah but I believe DFC overestimated the revenue from online subs and from advertisement big time.
Anyway, the $25 billion console game rvenue was my own ruff estimate.
(if US accounts for $11 billion, EUrope shuld have rufly $10 billion and Japan $5billion... but I can see now that I mite have low balled the numbers. It could be $12 billion NA, $11 billion Europe and $7 billion Japan/rest = $30 billion)
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The US Console games revenue was only $6.6 billions in 2007, while the Japanese Games revenue was $3.3 billions (and includes handheld games sales I think). Much lower than you're thinking.
And the Online Revenue of PC includes not only subscriptions but also micro-transactions, which is very popular in Asia.
