A Look at Online Gaming

ONLINE G AMING STATS The online gaming market is worth more than $15 BILLION 24 20 million players have spent 17 billion hours on Xbox Live That's more than 2 hours 20 MILLION 17 BILLION played for every person on the planet! PLAYERS HOURS There are 40 million registered PlayStation Network accounts AVERAGE TIME SPENT PLAYING (in the U.S. for 2009) by XBOX gamers: by PC gamers: by PS3 gamers: 7.3 6.6 5.8 hrs/week hrs/week hrs/week ONLINE GAMING MOST POPULAR ONLINE GAMES DEMOGRAPHIC AGE 25-44 for XBOX for PC INCOME $35,000- $75,000 HALO 3 WORLD OF WARCRAFT CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE RUNESCAPE GENDER 58% are male CALL OF DUTY: CALL OF DUTY: 42% are female MODERN WARFARE 2 MODERN WARFARE 2 PERCENT OF MMO SUBSCRIPTION BY GENRE + Fantasy RPG: 94.2% wdRLD WARCRAFT INEAGE Sci-fi/Superhero RPG: 3.7% FINAL FANTASI I Social/Puzzle/0ther: 1.9% Combat Simulation/FPS: 0.2% TOP FIVE BROWSER GAME SITES pegం acom realArcade GAMETAP Games TOP 5 MOST PIRATED GAMES OF 2009 PC Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2: 4.1 million downloads The Sims 3: 3.2 million downloads Prototype: 2.35 million downloads MODERN WARFA Need For Speed Shift: 2.1 million downloads Street Fighter IV: 1.85 million downloads M PC XBOX Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2: 970,000 downloads Street Fighter IV: 840.000 downloads Prototype: 810.000 downloads MODERN WARFARE Dirt 2: 790,000 downloads UFC 2009 Undisputed: 720.000 downloads ৰ = Wii Wii New Super Mario Bros.: 1,150,000 downloads Punch-Out!!: 950.000 downloads Wii Sports Resort: 920.000 downloads N SUPEN MARIO BROS.Wii The House of the Dead 0verkill: 860.000 downloads Mario Power Tennis: 830.000 downloads * http://www.industrygamers.com/news/online-game-market-to-surpass-15-billion-this-year-says-analyst/ u http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.cfm/2010/03/03/gamers_spend_most_gaming time_online_on xbox_360 O http://xbox.joystiq.com/2010/01/21/youve-spent-17-billion-hours-on-xbox-live/ a http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=234736 - http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart8.html O http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=18583 n http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2009/03/10/report%3A-online-gaming-grows-consoles%2C-declines-pc http://torrentfreak.com/the-most-pirated-games-of-2009-091227/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2010/jan/11/games-xbox http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/111888/npd-reveals-online-gaming-statistics/ http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/top-10-pc-games-console-stats-for-2009-11570/nielsen-top-10-pc-game-titles-us-2009jpg/