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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Steam by sunderland56 · 2011-01-18 00:24 · Score: 3, Interesting

What do you consider Steam? It isn't physical media, and it isn't the Apple app store either.

Steam probably sells a sizeable percentage of all video games right now, and is steadily increasing it's market share.