the media has been talking about this for a couple of years.... forecasting the "shrinking" pc game market
it's flat out not true.... when you use faulty data you get faulty results.
*revenue for PC games is growing by double digits and should exceed $9.5 billion for 08. for a perspective, the total revenue for all CONSOLES in 2006 was $12.6 billion.
it's true, the purchase of BOXED pc games is on the decline and the retail space is getting much smaller... that's it! broadband media distribution and subscription based models are more than making up for the retail decline.
these past media articles that were claiming the "death of PC gaming", they only included sales from these retail spaces. they did -not- include the download casual games market, non boxed steam games and so on... in other words nothing bought on line.
recently, the last few months, there have been articles written that brought these very points up
http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10711&Itemid=2
http://www.developmag.com/news/29331/The-PC-market-is-not-dying-says-newly-formed-PC-Gaming-Alliance
http://ionnetwork.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2011764%3ABlogPost%3A596
this is nothing like what happen to the Amiga.
it's flat out not true.... when you use faulty data you get faulty results.
*revenue for PC games is growing by double digits and should exceed $9.5 billion for 08. for a perspective, the total revenue for all CONSOLES in 2006 was $12.6 billion.
it's true, the purchase of BOXED pc games is on the decline and the retail space is getting much smaller... that's it! broadband media distribution and subscription based models are more than making up for the retail decline.
these past media articles that were claiming the "death of PC gaming", they only included sales from these retail spaces. they did -not- include the download casual games market, non boxed steam games and so on... in other words nothing bought on line.
recently, the last few months, there have been articles written that brought these very points up
http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10711&Itemid=2
http://www.developmag.com/news/29331/The-PC-market-is-not-dying-says-newly-formed-PC-Gaming-Alliance
http://ionnetwork.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2011764%3ABlogPost%3A596
this is nothing like what happen to the Amiga.