Feb 13
NPD Group, GfK Chart-Track Limited and Enterbrain, Inc., combined video game software unit sales across the world’s three largest games markets:
Jan 19
According to MCV, 14.2 Million Wii consoles have been sold in Europe. this includes 8.3 Million Units in 2008 alone. Nintendo also sold 11.2 Million units of the DS in Europe in 2008, bringing its installed base to 31 Million in Europe.
Jul 6
Billy Pidgeon over at IDC estimated the size of the video game market in a recent research report:
This research report actually came out before the DFC Intelligence report, but given two analysts have estimated the $57 Billion number, it’s probably safe to use.
Jul 6
The San Jose Mercury News reports that:
Welcome to the blog. My name is Sean Kauppinen and I’ve been in the games industry for 15 years. I’m constantly looking for research and data on the market. I wanted to create this blog so that anyone interested in finding out the size of the market could get the data quickly and easily. If you find an article that you think we should post, please send it over and we’ll get it in the blog.
