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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lack of good PC titles so far in '04 by kryptoknight · 2004-07-19 12:13 · Score: 5, Interesting

Besides a few notable games like Battlefield:Vietnam and Far Cry, there were only few good titles released from January through May of 2004.

Also there must have been a lot of carry over sales from the slew of games released for the holiday season '02 as compared to the lackluster game sales of holiday season '03.

Things should really pick up for the PC with the releases of Doom 3, HL2, Rome:Total War, and the likes.