PC Gaming Alliance: Rumors of death turned out to be slightly exaggerated
From a PC Gaming Alliance note : Rumors of death turned out to be slightly exaggerated.
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Our analysis clearly shows the growth of online, and proves that our industry is much stronger than previously thought. Customers today buy where they live - online.
According to their calculations in 2007, thanks in large part to the money from Asia, the profits of igrodels on PCs grew to 10.7 billion dollars. Of these, two billion accounted for online purchases and 800 million for in-game advertising. The Internet has brought PC 4, 8 billion - almost two times more than sales of "boxed" games.
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I translate numbers from a dry language: here and so, the revolution has unnoticed in just 2-3 years and now more and more people prefer to buy games online than on discs. In recent years, there has been a lot of talk about the fact that the PC gaming market is dying and some consoles will soon be left. However, it turns out that the old scheme of sales of games on disks actually dies, while PC gaming itself is flourishing and the PC games market as a whole is growing.
At a pace in a few more years, it will not be easy to buy the game on the disc. Most likely, as a result, only expensive gift editions will be sold on disks.
I am with both hands for this trend. I like to buy games online - it’s easy and time saving.
And what do you think about this? Will you miss the "boxed" games?
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Our analysis clearly shows the growth of online, and proves that our industry is much stronger than previously thought. Customers today buy where they live - online.
According to their calculations in 2007, thanks in large part to the money from Asia, the profits of igrodels on PCs grew to 10.7 billion dollars. Of these, two billion accounted for online purchases and 800 million for in-game advertising. The Internet has brought PC 4, 8 billion - almost two times more than sales of "boxed" games.
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I translate numbers from a dry language: here and so, the revolution has unnoticed in just 2-3 years and now more and more people prefer to buy games online than on discs. In recent years, there has been a lot of talk about the fact that the PC gaming market is dying and some consoles will soon be left. However, it turns out that the old scheme of sales of games on disks actually dies, while PC gaming itself is flourishing and the PC games market as a whole is growing.
At a pace in a few more years, it will not be easy to buy the game on the disc. Most likely, as a result, only expensive gift editions will be sold on disks.
I am with both hands for this trend. I like to buy games online - it’s easy and time saving.
And what do you think about this? Will you miss the "boxed" games?
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/37603/
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