Revenues generated by US consumers on and in games will amount to $20.5bn this year. Approximately $6.4bn or 31% can be attributed to retail sales of new boxed games and another 4% to the retail margin on sales of pre-owned games. The majority of revenues, 65% or $13.3bn, is generated digitally through gaming on consoles, PCs, smartphones and tablets.
Compared to 2012, new and pre-owned game retail sales is expected to be down 10%, a significant improvement compared to the 21% decline in 2012. Growth of digital game spending was slightly over 10%, resulting in a modest year-on-year growth of 2% for the total US games market. Revenue figures include retail margin but do not include tax and consumer-to-consumer trading.
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Of course she did. She's part of the problem and will just tow the company line.
I always wondered why xbox had multiple leaders with similar titles like Phil Spencer, Matt Booty, and Sarah Bond, like, how many heads do you actually need?
Seems to me it would be more cost efficient to cut 2 of them instead of all those studios.
lol Totally skew the % by adding smartphones and tablets, which aren't REAL gaming systems and ONLY allow for digital.
65% Digital with the majority of that coming from the PC!
31% from Boxed Sales! who is that? ALL Consoles with a very small percentage of that being PC.
65% Digital sales! who is that? the PC has the Lions share with small percentages from consoles, smart phones, and tablets.
The PC was projected to over take all consoles by 2015 in total revenue!
I just wish they broke this down into more definitive numbers so people can see that the PC is a JUGGERNAUT when it comes to Revenue.
$20.5bn is a healthy Industry and I hope quality games keeps it that way.
i also found myself buying almost every PC game digitally now, i have a good 100mbit net, so why not. Also there are such good deals on Steam (waiting for todays Xmas deals!) or HumbleBundles. But on consoles it's completely different, since the prices there are just horrible and the discounts sux... But as a PS+ member i just enjoy the "free" digital games :)
I am honestly 100% ok with digital on PC. Games are extremely cheap and digital stores compete.
-On consoles it is a different story. Sony, Microsoft & Nintendo rarely give any discounts on digital games. The same game usually cost 3x as much as the pc counterpart.