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Europe, Middle-East and Africa lumped together. Interesting

Huh, i never realized how large a portion of the global gaming market MMO's occupied o.o

Makes sense though i suppose. They are hugely popular in places like South Korea, the FTP MMO model has proved quite profitable, and the MMO's that manage to pull off the subscription model rake in several million a year (sometimes hundreds of millions a year). I can believe all of that adds up to 20%+.

So they expect for market share:

Tablets +8.4% (3.63x)
Phones +5.6% (1.53x)
MMOs +2.9% (1.14x)

Consoles - 4.3% (0.88x)
Social -2.9% (0.72x)
PC - 4.0% (0.59x)
Handhelds - 5.9% (0.40x)

I always knew consoles were more profitable than PC but 43% vs 9% is more than I expected.

Can't wait for flappy bird 2

PC master race right? All of 9% (-7%YoY). :P

Sorry, couldnt resist. I game on the PC aswell, but i think that master race thing is so dumb. ^^

I am honestly wondering how many huge AAA games we will have if they couldn't "profit" on the consoles.

I honestly am not surprised by this, I saw a study once that showed that the majority of games on steam are bought at a huge discount. PC gamers don't like to admit it but the truth of the matter is that the "Masterrace" couldn't even remotely support the AAA industry on its own.

2 interesting things.
How the hell is PC gaming shrinking? Especially with that solid growth of MMOs. Really weird. You'd think it would be growing with all that indie stuff. But I guess the pc gaming mom demographic that moved to mobile was a pretty big chunk.

 Apparently the Chinese gaming market is just as big as West Europe.

Who cares about Flappy Bird?

Bring on the next wave of Brave Frontier content. Want Lunalith for my mono-dark squad.