Tiamat
Tue, 24th Apr '07, 11:28pm
The focus of gaming used to be on the PC, but it had become overshadowed by a new generation of game consoles. However, according to the New York times, PC games are now making their way back up again, for reasons that range from convenience to the greater sophistication of the titles on the market.
Anita Frazier, an industry analyst for the NPD Group, a market research firm, noted that in the first two months of 2007, domestic retail sales of PC games reached $203 million, a 48 percent increase over the $136.8 million in the period a year earlier. She noted that these figures do not include revenue generated by PC game sales online, or online subscriptions to play PC games.
“Yes, it does look like a fluke, doesn’t it?” Ms. Frazier said. “Rest assured it’s not.”
She said the bulk of this surge in sales is rooted in the role-playing video game genre that, itself, grew 43 percent over the same period last year.
Read the rest at the New York Times website (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/23/technology/23gaming.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin), if you can log in there.
[ April 24, 2007, 23:58: Message edited by: Tiamat ]
Anita Frazier, an industry analyst for the NPD Group, a market research firm, noted that in the first two months of 2007, domestic retail sales of PC games reached $203 million, a 48 percent increase over the $136.8 million in the period a year earlier. She noted that these figures do not include revenue generated by PC game sales online, or online subscriptions to play PC games.
“Yes, it does look like a fluke, doesn’t it?” Ms. Frazier said. “Rest assured it’s not.”
She said the bulk of this surge in sales is rooted in the role-playing video game genre that, itself, grew 43 percent over the same period last year.
Read the rest at the New York Times website (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/23/technology/23gaming.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin), if you can log in there.
[ April 24, 2007, 23:58: Message edited by: Tiamat ]