shio said:
Pineapple said:
Don86 said:
4 billion dollars?
The console market revenue is around that right IIRC? WOW.
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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).
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The Console software revenue is less than $20 billion, and probably closer to $15 billion. PC games revenue was estimated to be $13.1 billion in 2009, so it could be $14bln or more in 2010.
Although Nintendo's revenue was $15bln, it also accounts handheld software, handheld hardware, console hardware and accessories revenue, and probably some other stuff.
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What's the source on the PC games revenue? The Forbes article puts the combined PC revenue at just shy of 8 billion, excluding DLC and services you pay monthly for.
The console revenue being less than 20 billion dollars does seem logical. I forgot that I was including the hardware sales with Nintendo's revenue.
