(Taken from Neogaf)

At GC in Leipzig, the PC Gaming Alliance releases its "Horizons" report

- PC gaming was a $10.7 billion industry in 2007
- Previous reports show that $8.3 billion comes from non-casual games
- Therefore, casual games is a $2.4 billion market
- Only 30% of sales come from retail
- $2 billion from digital distribution (Steam, D2D, etc.)
- $4.8 billion from online gaming (WoW, other MMOs) - previous evidence shows WoW at $1.1 billion.

“Our analysis clearly shows incredible growth in online PC gaming, proof that this industry is far stronger than anyone has reported,” said Stude. “Today’s consumers shop where they live - online.”

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A total of $2 billions in Digital Distribution is HUGE. If the average game is sold at $30, then it means that over 65 millions PC games were sold online but not accounted for.

w00t! nice sales

the only PC games i liked were FPS and RTS

Shio is that a worldwide total, or a U.S total? It would also help if you gave the numbers for each console to make comparison easier (A total would help those who don't want to use a calculator to add the different consoles up would also be useful)

I didn't know they released sales information off of steam. Well I guess that is just total sales not individual sales

WoW is just a money-printer

Great sale numbers, I just hope PC gaming go back to the 1990s period and point and click games are popular again.

you aren't looking hard enough, there is an increased support of point and click games compared to the last few years.

With the big amount of cash of the MMO this isnt great surprise.Still ,the retail sales are not very good.When we calculate the Wii-PS3-360 numbers wer arent taking in count Live-PSN-Virtual Machine.

It would be nice to know how much of that is WoW based considering Burning Crusade came out last year.

I have a funny feeling if you look where all that money came from in the non-casual crowd it is probably just these games:

• WoW (and the expansions)
• Half-Life 2/The Orange Box
• Bioshock

There are others but I'm guessing those are the biggens that account for most of that.  Three games does not equal a huge rise.