This's a huge report, includes costs, franchises and a quite depth analysis on markets.

http://www.slideshare.net/timmerel/global-video-games-investment-review-290310-tim-merel-ibis-capital

Basically:

Wow, incredible number!

I wonder the what the percentage of profit is. Maybe a lot more!

ok... umm... what is this report. Why should I care. How do they calculate revenue when there is TONs of unknown revenue factors in the PC market from indie developers being paid through sources like PayPal. Does this even include PC, and that last line makes zero sense other than the gamestop part.

Wow the Wii is really underperforming. It has 49% of the marketshare, but only 47% of revenue.

Slackers.

It doesn't include pc, it's global console revenue. Only question is does it include handhelds??

Wait what do they mean by reducing the chances of the 9th gen?

aren't we in the 7th gen?

Or dot hey mean the one after nex gen!!!!!!

so nex nex gen?

{faints}

actually it includes 2 sectors from the PC market, web based and MMOs. From what I could tell, no handheld. I;m rather disappointed that they didnt include a full view of the industry. Lot of data there, useful in some ways, useless in others.

I'd estimate that if you included PC properly and handhelds into this, overall revenue of the gaming industry would be well over 120 billion.

it states expected 8th generation consoles in 2013 - 2014

next-next gen in 2023???

They're talking that we probably won't have a 9th generation because of DLC, non-disc games and so. A 8th generation is something that is going to happen but after that nobody knows.

there can be a 9th generation, easily. retailers would just sell download cards like for the PSP Go. Console power would be increased dramatically in a ten year space. DLC might make things hard to track, but hardware can be.