Video Game Forecasts Raised After E3

JULY 1, 2014 • Following this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, DFC Intelligence is now projecting significant gains for core hardware and software products worldwide.  As a result DFC continues to raise its video game forecasts for 2014 and beyond in both the console and PC segment. Overall game software revenue from PC games, console games and mobile games are expected to go from $64 billion in 2014 to $100 billion in 2018. With .....

$100 Billion Video Game Market by 2018

JUNE 25, 2014 • DFC Intelligence has announced that for the second time this year they are significantly raising their five-year video game forecast.  Overall game software revenue is expected to go from $64 billion in 2014 to $100 billion in 2018.  This includes revenue from PC games, console games and mobile games, but does not include hardware spending on game devices. By 2018 the game market is likely to be split fairly evenly between console, PC and mobil.....

Behind Ninja Metrics’ Veil

JUNE 1, 2014 • Ninja Metrics Interview: How and why people spend money in games has taken on much greater importance as the free-to-play model has taken root worldwide. What is relatively novel is which players influence purchases by other players. The concept is not new, consumer electronics companies have been cultivating early adopters for decades – people who then go onto influence other consumers to purchase. Yet translating that concept to in-game purcha.....

PlayStation 4 Heads to China

MAY 27, 2014 • Sony Computer Ent. has set up two joint ventures with state-owned Shanghai Oriental Pearl Co. Ltd. to release the PlayStation 4 to China. One of the joint ventures will be responsible for console hardware manufacturing and sales; while the other is concerned with software development, distribution, marketing, and network services. The agreement runs for 10 years and will be operated out of the .....

GameStop Shifts Impulse Digital Game Distribution Course

MAY 21, 2014 • Three years after GameStop Corp. acquired the Impulse digital game distribution service and streaming firm Spawn Labs, the retailer is taking a different approach to its digital sales. Starting this week, GameStop will no longer service nor deliver digital purchases of PC games via its own Impulse server infrastructure. Consumers who visit impulsedriven.com are now directed instead to gamestop.com/pcgames where they will receive a voucher to use w.....

Tencent Mobile Game Revenue Triples in First Quarter

MAY 15, 2014 • In first quarter financial reporting Tencent Holdings Ltd. announced that its smartphone mobile games revenue tripled from 600 million yuan ($96.3 million) to 1.8 billion yuan ($289 million) from the previous quarter. During the period the paying player base for this mobile content more than doubled. For the quarter ending March 31 mobile revenue accounted for 17.4% of the 10.4 bi.....

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