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JaggedSac on 13 November 2009
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Mudface said:
elticker said:

you forgut that they also have to buy the game and there are other big mmos. i would say 60-85% is from mmos and rts.

They don't have to buy the game every year, though.

I'd suggest reading this before you start commenting on PC sales, you might appear less ignorant.

 

We take a step to the world stage. 13 Billion dollars is the entire PC games market in 2008. In terms of the split, Chart Track [a UK-based market research firm] believes 24% is retail, 46% online revenue services (i.e. Subscriptions, micro-transactions), 22% is digital distribution and 8% is ad-revenue...All this compares to 32 billion dollars from all console sales.

Retail = $3.12 billion

DD = $2.86 billion

OR = $5.98 billion

AR = $1.04 billion

 

Subscriptions, microtransactions, and ad revenue brought in $7.02 billion dollars.  Direct sales of games brought in $5.98 billion dollars.  That is very interesting.