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Pineapple on 16 February 2011
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Don86 said:
Pineapple said:

This is interesting. Forbes, a far more credible site, comes with a statement directly contradictin the 1 billion here.

"Steam controls half to 70% of the $4 billion market for downloaded PC games"

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2011/0228/technology-gabe-newell-videogames-valve-online-mayhem.html

4 billion dollars?

The console market revenue is around that right IIRC? WOW.


The console market is far larger than that. Nintendo alone has a revenue of 15 billion or so (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6261400.html?tag=recent_news;title;1). Granted, that's with the DS too, but still, the console market is far larger than 4 billion dollars.

Nintendo accounts for somewhere around 45% of the total hardware sales, roughly 40% of the software is sold on their machines, and they personally publish somewhere around 15% of the software. Short and simple, they might account for around 25-30% of the revenue of the console handheld market, which would make the console handheld market revenue around 50 billion dollars.

The PC has 8 billion in revenue, though (and that's not including MMOs monthly subscriptions). Considering that there are 5 consoles/handhelds, it's bigger than the smaller ones (PsP definitely, maybe Ps3 and possibly X360/DS now).