Today, the PC Gaming Alliance announced the PC gaming software sales have risen by a year-over-year total of 3%, bringing 2009′s sales to US$13.1 billion, despite the NPD group stating that in 2009 the gaming sector as a whole fell 8%. The PCGA also found that high-end subscriptions ($10 or more per month) were down, as well as retail boxed games which fell between 10-15% depending on the region to an all-time low of only 20% of the game sales sector.
It’s great to see that more people are adopting online distribution methods such as Steam and Direct2Drive, which are becoming more popular, having greater ranges of games and often giving away great deals on older games; more than 70% of US/European consumers said they have purchased a game online. For those of you (like me) who use the PC as their main gaming system, hopefully these increased revenues will mean more great games will be coming to the PC, and hopefully without a delay from the console release date.
