PC Game Sales Trending Downwards

Posted by simoniker on Monday July 19, 2004 @11:59AM from the until-famous-games-comes-out dept.

Thanks to GameDaily for it article discussing a perceived struggling in the PC videogame business. According to the article: "The overall PC game category, from January through May of 2003, was $471.0 million in the U.S. according to NPD estimates. 2004 is well off of that figure already, according to The NPD Group's industry analyst Richard Ow, who put a dollar figure of $360.0 million for the January to May 2004 period." However, Ow also notes: "There's still lots of sales ahead and major releases are pending, so there's still a wait and see factor", and comments on the recently-gold Doom 3: "It is the most well-known among the core gaming group, which is a smaller market, but a group that can still drive sales."

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Re:Hmmm by bigman2003 · 2004-07-19 17:24 · Score: 3, Informative

Maybe you don't follow the videogame industry very closely.

But Microsoft announced, and will be releasing XNA which will give parallel paths of development between the Xbox (next one probably) and the PC.

They do have a plan for convergence.

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