The Spotlight on Online Gaming

SPOTLIGHT ON ONLINE GAMING Online gaming is a technology rather than a genre; a mechanism for connecting players together rather than a particular pattern of gameplay. Over the past 5 years it has grown to become an important of our online experience. Below is some of the figures involved with online gaming. Most popular Facebook Games (2009 by active players) How online games are accessed Farmville 70m PC PS3 PC 85% XBOX 360 Mafia Wars 26m XBOX 360 Malia wrs- 48% 7.3hrs 6.6hrs 5.8hrs PS3 30% Platform most time spent playing YoVille 18m Wii 30% Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games. Top 5 (average time per week) Texas HoldEm Poker 20m Second Life LIFE 12.7hrs VC investment in online gaming Top 3 for 2009 Restaurant City 16m $180m game network A zynga Civilization IV investment by Digital Sky Technologies Makers of Facebook game FarmVille 11.1hrs World of Warcraft 10.9hrs Casual gaming market Playdom $43m Revenue $2.5bn Growth rate $20% investment Makers of the game Mobsters Dark Messiah of might & magic 9.7hrs $29m Players per month investment SMITH TINKER Makers of the toy/game Nanovor 200m Female : Male ratio Starcraft 5.7hrs 51.7% 48.3% VC investment in online gaming Total investment Reveneues made from $663.1m $936.8m MMO games by countries 2009 (115 Start Ups) 2008 (112 Start Ups) The size of the virtual USA $3.8bn UK $270m Germany $250m France $220m Belgium $55m goods market 2009 $2,219m US $621 Rest $1,598 Projected $5.7m 2009 Average investment 2008 Average investment $8.3m 2010 $3,107m US $1,087 Rest $2.020 Where the money was invested 2011 $4,070m US $1,547 Rest $2,523 $306.6 Social Games 40% of revenues on an average is from monthly subscriptions. MMO/Virital Worlds $96.45 Virital Goods/Currency $57 Educational $42 Development $25.97 IPhone $18 2012 $5,047m US $2,019 Rest 53.028 Mobile $8 Sources http://gameinformet.com/b/news/archive/2010/03/02/study-shows-increase-in-time-spent-gaming-online.aspe http://techcrunchies.com/most-popular-mmorpg-online-role-playing-games-by-time-spent-per-week http://www.bashbosh.com/most-popular-facebook-games-2008 http://ksvp.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/2-5bn-market-size-estimated-for-virtual-goods-in-the-us-by-2013/ Other $80.8 Undisclosed $29.28 Information provided by: CREDITSCORE