[ragnar]

According to this article video game sales in the US continues to grow and now total $7.3B, with $5.2B is console and $1.1B computer and $1.0B for portables. Well worth to note here is that computer games sold for $1.2B the year before.

Interesting for us may also be this:

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Computer gamers most often purchased strategy games (26.9%), family and children's entertainment games (20.3%) and shooter games (16.3%), followed by role-playing games (10%), adventure games (5.9%), sports games (5.4%), and action games (3.9%).

Adventure games is bigger than sports games on computers. I wonder what definition they have for adventure games here.

[SoccerDude28]

Originally Posted by ragnar

According to this article video game sales in the US continues to grow and now total $7.3B, with $5.2B is console and $1.1B computer and $1.0B for portables. Well worth to note here is that computer games sold for $1.2B the year before.

Interesting for us may also be this:



Adventure games is bigger than sports games on computers. I wonder what definition they have for adventure games here.

Does this take into account online stores like EBAY or only retail stores?

Also, the 5.2 B in consoles, does that include actual hardware or only software? I mean I'm sure they don't add NVIDIA and ATI graphics cards or the Alienware sales into the 1.1 B for PC.

[ragnar]

I've no idea. The figures comes from ESA, so you might want to contact them if you really want to know.

[remixor]

Originally Posted by SoccerDude28

Does this take into account online stores like EBAY or only retail stores?

Also, the 5.2 B in consoles, does that include actual hardware or only software? I mean I'm sure they don't add NVIDIA and ATI graphics cards or the Alienware sales into the 1.1 B for PC.

It says "video game sales" so there's no indication they would be including hardware.

[SoccerDude28]

Originally Posted by remixor

It says "video game sales" so there's no indication they would be including hardware.

I read the article and you are 100 % right. They say Video Game Software Sales so I guess they are only talking about the games themselves.

[SoccerDude28]

There are some really interesting figures in there.

"Interestingly, despite the disproportionate media attention paid to a few controversial titles, the NPD Group's data indicates that only 16% of games sold last year were rated "Mature (M)," as compared to the 83% of games sold rated "Everyone (E)" or "Teen (T)" (53% rated "E" and 30% rated "T"). Three-quarters of the top twenty selling video games were rated "E" or "T."

A record twelve video games sold more than one million units, and of these, nine were rated E or T. "

"family and children's entertainment games are second in PC Sales(20.3%)"