| crissindahouse said: i was talking about pc games in shops and our shops here have more pc games than console games. i don't fking care about how many americans download their games because we europeans download them as well...and still we buy as many pc games at retail shops as the americans do and they have a population 4 times bigger. i have absolutely no clue why you don't undertsand it it's a well known fact that in europe pc gaming is much bigger compared to usa in comparison to console gaming. i give you numbers showing how many euros the retail made in germany and usa with pc games (almost the same) because the guy said shops don't have pc games anymore and i said it depends where you live so what's exactly your problem? do you think only you download pc stuff and we not? "the numbers are uselees because americans downlaod so much" yeah sure you downlaod everything and we don't...but what i said i don't care i was talking about retailers and their shelves full of pc games. you just should walk through a retailer here to see what i'm talking about. there are even shelves only for tractor simulations and shit like that bigger than the whole 360 shelve lol btw all numbers are from 2009 so, in 2009, digital downloads were the same in usa as retail numbers. that's what npd said so you can double the 400 million to 800 million (ok downloads were less expensive so not 400 million) against german 400 million + x digital downloads. so even if we wouldn't have bought any game online we still would have double the ratio than you in america per capita but we downlaod as well so i think it's still 4x as much. "The NPD Group, in 2009, 21.3 million PC Game full-game digital downloads were purchased online in the U.S. compared to 23.5 million physical units purchased at retail during the same period. While NPD’s point-of-sale research shows that PC physical retail sales experienced a year-over-year revenue decline in 2009, it was still slightly larger than PC digital download sales on a unit basis. PC digital downloads represented close to half of unit sales across digital and retail at 48 percent in 2009, and accounted for 36 percent of dollar sales." |
*pounds face on table*
MMO gaming is massive in the US. Your data does not factor in any part of MMO sales outside of retail boxes, which constitutes a very small portion of overall revenue. As I mentioned earlier, most stores in the US don't even carry a decent stock of PC games anymore. It's bloody hard to buy things at retail if you can't find it in a store.
Not. Hard. To. Understand. Your data is so incomplete as to be entirely useless. Well over 50% of PC games sold in the US are digital downloads.
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