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NPD Data On PC Games Stays the Course
Next Generation has a quick post about NPD's PC games data for 2006. The market was just about even, only increasing by about 1% to $970 million. World of Warcraft and The Sims were the two top-sellers last year, with WoW pushing about a million units and Sims titles occupying five of the top ten slots for the year. From the post: "PC games included, 2006 industry sales were up 18 percent compared to 2005, and 15 percent higher than the $10.5 billion generated in 2002, the former record-holding year. The PC numbers don't include subscriptions and paid online content. The NPD also revealed the top ten US retail PC titles of 2006 by units. WoW beat out second place The Sims 2 by a sizable margin, with EA's hit selling over 598,000 units (list placement includes special editions of applicable titles)."
Don't you hate it when stupid feel-good political codewords penetrate into mainstream usage?
"We need to stay the course"
Next year EA will announce that "we need to protect our gaming freedom from the terrorist competition"
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say
yah, +1 funny, -1 depressing.
Here is the PC games Firing squad is looking forward to for 2007. Most of the release dates are still very vague (only 2 were narowed down to months, and one of those was Burning Crusade). We see alot of "Sometime 2007" and "First half of 2007", a few have the quarter listed, and Valve is in at "summer" (God let them hit that date, I want those 3 games!).
So, we will see. Mabey this will be the year we will all remember as "The year of compleated release dates"...
or not.
Do Or Do Not, There Is No Spoon, There Is Only Zuul. Everything in the above post is probably opinion.
Because the people playing the Sims lack the savvy to pirate it while the more 'serious' gamers do it despite Slashdot's denial. There, I said it, burn karma, burn.
Cheer up guys; I've got a good feeling about Duke Nukem Forever.
This is gonna be the year!