video games

Online gaming time volume continues growing

March 3, 2010 - 8:27am | Figures | News

Online gaming time has been increasing considerably as proves data from The NPD Group. Thus, the average amount of hours spent each week on online gaming has climbed by 10% since the last year, while an average of 20% of all games purchased were digitally downloaded up from 19% in 2009.

The average number of hours spent per week on online gaming has increased from 7.3% hours per week in 2009 to 8 hours per week in 2010. This means that, despite the decline in overall online game play, those who are playing, are spending more time playing than they did last year.

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Recession makes people play video games less

August 14, 2009 - 4:02am | Figures | News

According to the research group NPD study released Thursday, US video game equipment and software sales dropped by 29% previous month reaching the volume of $848.9 million. That is the result of the economic recession that also affected the gaming industry.

As for the hardware sales, they reflected drop of 37% from a year ago, while software sales slumped by 26%. At the same time, video game accessories sales slid by 12%.

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Sony’s PlayStation 3 may lose the support of Activision

June 22, 2009 - 8:51am | Articles | Other themes

The possibility of stopping the making of video games for Sony’s PlayStation 3 was announced by the Chief Executive of Activision, Bobby Kotick on Friday. High costs and poor sales were mentioned as the reasons for such a possibility. In the interview with the Times of London, Kotick said that $399 for the PS3 was too high while Nintendo’s Wii, the most popular console, and Microsoft’s Xbox cost $250 and $200 respectively.

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Video games are more popular than movies

May 22, 2009 - 8:11am | Figures | News

A new NPD Group report shows that 53 percent of U.S. consumers have been to the movies in the last six months, whereas those who played a video game made 63 percent.

Although, according to NPD, video gaming is way behind music listening (94 percent), it benefits from new play outlets, including social networks (10 percent) and downloadable games (5 percent).

consumer spending | entertainment | movies | video games

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Gamers, save your time and money with online video game rentals!

May 10, 2009 - 8:21pm | Analytics | Articles

Do you want to play the latest video games, but have a limited budget? Or try a game before purchasing it to make sure that you will love playing it? Online rental store can help. It is easy, convenient and cost effective to rent the latest releases via the Internet. You can try as many games as you want for a low flat monthly fee.

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