| joeorc said: wait a min..FUD...Home Media magazine also tracks the market in a representative fashion just like VGchartz do though the do it for Mainly Movies instead of Video Game's. Home Media magazine is quite respected. do not try to pull out that card of it was not representative of the market. that's like saying NPD is not. they are all tracking services. as for Convenient being the main drive..once again collecting is. and Digital Downloads require a high bandwidth , which is being capped. So I don't see how that's going to be anymore Convenient as for getting physical Media at the brick an mortar store's as you can do right now. when the ISP's keep capping the speed for internet. www.newamerica.net/.../Bandwidth%20Caps%20for%20High-Speed%20Internet%20in%20the%20U.S.%20and%20Japan.pdf |
Yeah I know all about bandwidth caps etc. NPD tracks about 95% of the U.S. game market and for what it doesn't directly track it has excellent estimates. On demand means -> Streaming, direct download, cable companies on demand, satelite on demand, kiosks.
Of those you have
- Major cable companies
- Porn companies
- Kiosk based distribution which is growing quite fast with Redbox etc and they are likely thinking of creating proprietary media for direct download.
- Major internet services like Netflix, iTunes
- Consoles
if you consider cable companies alone that probably already blows through the $200m estimated download revenue. Netflix alone would take up almost half of it if you consider at most 1M people whom mainly use it for their online service.
Tease.
