A great jump in Video games' sales till 2015
Analysts predict that sales in the game industry will hit like $70 billion by 2015. The overall worldwide revenue for the video game industry is expected to grow from $60.4 billion in 2009 to $70.1 billion in 2015, which seems a lot brighter after the decline in the last few years mostly because of the world crisis, of course.
Anyway DFC Intelligence foresees a 16% growth in worldwide sales for PCs, consoles, online and portable gaming markets over a 6-year period. It will still face som problems will 2013. Till that period the game sales will stil continue to decline but after that the tuation will become much more optimistic.
According to DFC Intelligence analyst David Cole, ” The overall game industry is expected to undergo a decline as more consumers embrace online business models, many of which involve a significant free to play component. These models may be more profitable than the traditional packaged goods business, but in the short term they provide less revenue.”
The PC platform will continue to pioneer online business models and online game revenue for the PC is expected to exceed $20 billion in 2015. Consoles are also becoming a leading platform for online games and console online game revenue is expected to nearly quadruple from 2009 to 2015. “Online distribution and subscription models that worked on the PC are expected to come to the console systems over the next few years,” said Cole. “This should help offset some of the decline at retail.”
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