Wednesday, March 7th 2012
Report: PC Gaming On The Rise
This may not be a surprise to the PC enthusiast community but, the PC gaming market has never been healthier, according to a report from the not-for-profit consortium PC Gaming Alliance (PCGA). The report claims that in 2011, the industry reached a global record $18.6 billion, a growth of 15 percent over the prior year. The report cites burgeoning foreign markets and social games as large factors in the findings. The results of the PCGA's third annual "Horizons" research report found that China is growing at almost twice the rate of the global market, bringing in $6 billion for a total growth of 27 percent. The US, UK, Korea, Japan, and Germany saw increased revenue of 11%, by comparison. Asian companies, in general, are noted for spurring on sales in their markets.
The report also cites Zynga and Nexon (of MapleStory fame) as frontrunners in the PC space. Zynga in particular doubled its revenue to roughly $1.1 billion, putting it on-par with Nexon. Zynga and the German company Bigpoint were noted for pushing the free-to-play model, already popular in Asian territories, into North America and Europe. The report also notes the movers and shakers of big-budget PC games from the western market, like Star Wars: The Old Republic and Rift, along with multiplatform titles like Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Looking forward, the report speculates that the industry will grow to $25.5 billion (37 percent increase) by 2015, thanks to increased broadband penetration and digital delivery. The report is from a PC gaming coalition with a vested interest in trumpeting the industry's health, but even so, the rumors of PC's death have greatly exaggerated.
Source:
Shacknews
The report also cites Zynga and Nexon (of MapleStory fame) as frontrunners in the PC space. Zynga in particular doubled its revenue to roughly $1.1 billion, putting it on-par with Nexon. Zynga and the German company Bigpoint were noted for pushing the free-to-play model, already popular in Asian territories, into North America and Europe. The report also notes the movers and shakers of big-budget PC games from the western market, like Star Wars: The Old Republic and Rift, along with multiplatform titles like Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Looking forward, the report speculates that the industry will grow to $25.5 billion (37 percent increase) by 2015, thanks to increased broadband penetration and digital delivery. The report is from a PC gaming coalition with a vested interest in trumpeting the industry's health, but even so, the rumors of PC's death have greatly exaggerated.
53 Comments on Report: PC Gaming On The Rise
you guys make a lot of assumptions like the consumer has a desk, chair or older desktop to upgrade. if you have to go out and buy a desk, chair, 120hz monitor, mouse, mechanical keyboard it can be expensive before you even get started. how does Metro and the ability to control your XBOX 360 in Windows 8 do PC Gaming any favors? consoles got all the exclusives and cost less than a i5-2500k. PC Gaming is for hardware enthusiast and geeks like me who like Evochron and Dawn of War.
I'm with Mailman on this one, you just cannot be retarded about it.
Conclusion: If I get a PS3 setup I still need a laptop to do my trolling on, adding costs whereas if I go for the PC route I can skip the PS3 setup.
Disclaimer: I play PC games on PC, and I play console games on consoles. I don't really care about "PC gaming dead/dying/healthy/etc." because people will always make games for PC, just that the "big money projects" slowly get cut down (which doesn't really matter, lots of good indie games out there like Minecraft and Torchlight)
But I give up. You play on a PC too. That's good enough for me.