PC games sales up 230%, console game sales down 28%
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Neon
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PostPosted: Sun, 8th Jul 2012 23:09    Post subject: PC games sales up 230%, console game sales down 28%
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According to industry analyst NPD Group, sales of video-game hardware -- a.k.a consoles -- software and even accessories fell for a sixth consecutive month in May, tumbling 28% from a year earlier to $517 million. And with the release of Blizzard's (ATVI) Diablo III, May also saw the first time since July 2010 that the top-selling game was a PC-only title. That boosted PC video games sales up year-over-year to 230% or $80 million.


http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/05/could-pc-gaming-make-a-comeback/


Now keep in mind, this is only NPD Group data, the sales from the PC are actually a lot higher.
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Mister_s




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PostPosted: Sun, 8th Jul 2012 23:11    Post subject:
A rise due to a single game (Diablo 3) doesn't say much imo. I'm amazed the gap is still that huge, I thought last year was a brilliant PC year.
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Neon
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PostPosted: Sun, 8th Jul 2012 23:15    Post subject:
Again, NPD. It counts only retail copies and only in US.
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PostPosted: Sun, 8th Jul 2012 23:16    Post subject: Re: PC games sales up 230%, console game sales down 28%
Neon wrote:
Now keep in mind, this is only NPD Group data, the sales from the PC are actually a lot higher.
AND those sales only account the US too Wink

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i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then


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PostPosted: Sun, 8th Jul 2012 23:17    Post subject: I have left.
I have left.
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Revan6999




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PostPosted: Sun, 8th Jul 2012 23:19    Post subject:
Wouldn't that just make the real PC numbers even higher though?
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Ankh




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PostPosted: Sun, 8th Jul 2012 23:36    Post subject:
Revan6999 wrote:
Wouldn't that just make the real PC numbers even higher though?


Ofc - but that's not the point. The point is that there are never ever any really good statistics.


shitloads of new stuff in my pc. Cant keep track of it all.
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madmax17




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PostPosted: Sun, 8th Jul 2012 23:45    Post subject:
No steam, origin, or any other digital form of retail, meaningless stats.
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ixigia
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PostPosted: Mon, 9th Jul 2012 00:04    Post subject:
These numbers are clearly fake and manipulated by nostalgic elitists affected by inferiority complexes, PC gaming is dead and computers are now just expensive facebook machines.

Console gaming is where the innovation and real gamers triumph, and thanks to revolutionary body tracking devices such as Kinect, the PC is even more destined to fail, facing an incredibly dark future.





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Smikis.




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PostPosted: Mon, 9th Jul 2012 00:19    Post subject:
it doesnt count console digital sales either , but pc digital sales would be 20 times if not more of those..
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Areius




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PostPosted: Mon, 9th Jul 2012 09:08    Post subject:
Console digital sales are hardly worth it because it are mostly cheap DLCs. In my country people hardly buy PC games in store anymore, Steam all the way, so I'm pretty sure that you can triple that amount easily (also because it's only USA).


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Hfric




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PostPosted: Mon, 9th Jul 2012 10:16    Post subject:
stop putting NPD sales numbers here they qualified LAPTOP or the new HIP name that Intel gave them "ULTRA BOOKS" as PCs


hahahahhahaa

first world problems Pffchh

moving on to most important things now




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PostPosted: Mon, 9th Jul 2012 10:17    Post subject:
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Hfric




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PostPosted: Mon, 9th Jul 2012 10:20    Post subject:
Interinactive wrote:
Mind Is Full Of Fuck



like they say there is a thin red line for NPD in their definition what is what PC_CONSOLE_LAPTOP

so thin its a blur


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