How Long Before Apps Overtake Physical Video Game Content Sales?

Posted by Soulskill on Monday January 17, 2011 @10:08PM from the think-we're-just-waiting-on-call-of-duty-halo-and-wow-ports dept.

jamie writes "Horace Dediu crunches some numbers and comes to a startling conclusion: 'If you look at the red line above and its slope, it would indicate that, given time, the App store will overtake the entire physical media gaming industry. The time when that happens will depend a lot on the growth or decline of the physical game media business, but another four years seems a safe bet.' This follows on the heels of some earlier analysis of apps per iOS device and what that steady upward growth means."

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Oblig by somersault · 2011-01-17 22:14 · Score: 4, Funny

Yuh-huh

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which is totally what she said
1. Re:Oblig by buro9 · 2011-01-17 22:51 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  You know the moon is moving away from Earth at a verifiable few centimetres a year? Well if you extrapolate backwards it's obvious that the dinosaurs are extinct because the moon hit them on the head... doosh! That'd make you extinct pretty fast.
  Cold hard science here guys... it's undeniable.