Dean Takahashi over at VentureBeat pulled together a great story on game industry investments in 2010 noting that:
ABI Research released a new report called Gaming in the Cloud that outlines their estimates of online gaming through 2015. Key points include:
The overall online game market is expected to eclipse $14.5 billion in 2010
The overall online game market is expected to grow to just over $29 billion by 2015 (14.8% CAGR)
Casual gaming is expected to account for nearly $7 billion of the 2010 revenue
Casual gaming will be more than $15 billion in 2015 (16.8% CAGR)
The MMO market is expected to be $7.6 billion for 2010 and $14 billion by 2015 (12.8% CAGR)
Home Media Magazine reports new Screen Digest numbers on the size of the home set-top box market. Global set-top box shipments:
The pay-TV industry is expected to account for almost 2/3 of the total every year between 2010 and 2014.
From 2009 to 2010, HD STBs increased from 50% of the market to more than 60%
By 2014 HD STBs will account for 70% of total set-top value
According to Forrester Research, the amount of time people spend on the Internet:
According to Juniper Research, the annual market for in-app ads is expected to be:
Nintendo today announced that they sold 2.7 million Wii™ and Nintendo DS™ systems in November. This includes:
“According to our internal numbers, Nintendo sold 600,000 Wii systems during Thanksgiving Week alone, an increase of 50,000 over 2009,” said Charlie Scibetta, Nintendo of America’s senior director of Corporate Communications.
Digitimes reports that the iPad 2 will arrive in February 2011, based on Foxconn’s manufacturing volume.
| iPad channel sales and shipments from supply, 2Q10-4Q10 (m units) | ||||
| 2Q10 | 3Q10 | 4Q10(e) | 2010(e) | |
| iPad channel sales | 3.3 | 4.19 | 7-7.5 | 14.49-14.99 |
| iPad shipments from supply | 3.3 | 6 | 6.5-7 | 15.80-16.3 |
Source: Component makers, compiled by Digitimes, December 2010
Apple will start selling the iPad in South Korea and Latin America in Q4, which will grow the international market for tablet PCs.
Back in October, Gartner estimated the tablet market at 154.2 Million units in 2013 and 19.5 million in 2010 (80% of which will be iPads = 15.6 million units). In November, Oppenheimer & Co. released a report that forecast shipments of tablet devices would be:
Revenue is expected to reach: