There is an AP article today talking about the market for games in the US, based on Pew Internet & American Life Project’s research released yesterday. Here are some data points:
There’s more data, but these are the important points.
Capcom and GRIN announced that Bionic Commando had sold 130,000 units in the first week across PSN and XBLA. At a 70/30 publisher/platform split on a $10 game, they likely grossed $910,000 in the first week.
Digitimes reported Anyalysys International’s numbers for the Chinese Online games market.
Revenues are up 65.9% this year to 4.43 billion yuan ($637 Million)
They also break down the marketshares of the top operators in China:
| Company | Share | Renenue* |
| Shanda | 17.9% | $114,023,000 |
| NetEase | 12.8% | $82,173,000 |
| Giant | 11.4% | $72,618,000 |
| The 9 | 10.9% | $69,433,000 |
| Tencent | 10.5% | $66,885,000 |
| Sohu | 7.4% | $47,138,000 |
| Perfect World | 7.4% | $47,138,000 |
| 9You | 5.6% | $35,672,000 |
| NetDragon | 3.8% | $24,206,000 |
| Kingsoft | 2.8% | $17,836,000 |
| China.com | 1.7% | $10,829,000 |
| Other | 7.8% | $49,686,000 |
| TOTAL | 100% | |
| NOTE: *(Reverse Engineered from Percentages provided by DIGITIMES) | ||
GameIndustry Biz reported today that an analysis of the NPD numbers gives the following breakdowns of Per Unit Sales:
PricewaterhouseCoopers Predicted:
Console games, the largest category, will grow by 6.9 percent annually, from $24.9 billion last year to $34.7 billion in 2012.
Online and wireless games will grow the fastest at 16.9 percent and 19 percent, respectively. Online will jump from $6.6 billion last year to $14.4 billion in 2012, while wireless games go from $5.6 billion to $13.5 billion in the same frame.
Just behind those is the emerging video game advertising sector, which will go from the $1 billion level in 2007 to $2.3 billion in 2012, a 16.7 percent annual growth rate.
“That’s phenomenal growth,” said PwC partner Stefanie Kane — especially considering that in-game advertising only works with certain kinds of games, sports being a primary example.
As has been the case, PC games are the laggards. That sector will fall 1.2 percent a year from 2007’s $3.8 billion to $3.6 billion in 2012.
The U.S. also will lag a bit compared with global growth, with overall video game revenue growing by 7.9 percent annually, from $12.1 billion in 2007 to $17.7 billion in 2012.
As of the end of 2007 in the U.S., there was an installed base of 9 million Xbox 360 consoles, which Microsoft launched in November 2005. That was followed in the next-generation category by 7 million for Nintendo’s Wii and 3 million for PlayStation 3, both of which were introduced in November 2006.
According to In-Stat, game industry revenue in the Asia-Pacific region is growing rapidly:
These numbers are different than the PriceWaterHouseCoopers we posted earlier.
Citing multiple articles:
According to the Korea Game Development & Promotion Institute (KGDI) the games market in Korea will be 4 trillion won (US$3.39 billion) for the first time this year
PriceWaterhouseCoopers estimated the Canadian wireless gaming market:
PriceWaterhouseCooopers estimated that the online games market across the Asia-Pacific region: