TweetThe adoption of digitally distributed video games has been both quicker and slower than expected, depending on which platforms you look at. If you look at PC games, by now it’s hard to imagine that there are people still buying physical boxes. A few years ago, Steam was considered a niche player for hardcore digital gamers. [...]
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The 10 Most Important Trends of Digital Games Distribution
Posted by Sebastian on July 20, 2011
http://www.deals4downloads.com/blog/2011/07/20/the-10-most-important-trends-of-digital-games-distribution/
Electronic Arts revamps its download store
Tweet EA announced a major upgrade of it’s digital distribution platform formerly known as EA Store. Apart from the new name “Origin“ EA promises that users will be able to set up profiles, build friends lists, browse more than 150 of EA’s games, and pre-order new releases. There is also some exclusive content for somw of [...]
Posted by Sebastian on June 6, 2011
http://www.deals4downloads.com/blog/2011/06/06/electronic-arts-revamps-its-download-store/
Market Shares of Digital Distribution Platforms in 2010-2011
TweetBasically, this is an update to a similar study we conducted last year. Actually, I hoped that during the last year more usage information with regard to the digital distribution market would become available. But so far none of the bigger download platforms has released any relevant information. Not even the established market research agencies [...]
Posted by Sebastian on June 1, 2011
http://www.deals4downloads.com/blog/2011/06/01/market-shares-of-digital-distribution-platforms-in-2010-2011/
Digital Sales only 15% of Take2′s business
TweetTake 2 boss Strauss Zelnick revealed in an interview with Bloomberg TV that his company’s digital business represents a mere 15% of the overall sales. That doesn’t seem a lot. According to NPDs recent analysis digital sales are almost equal to the retail sales. “I think you can see digital distribution growing to be 20, [...]
Posted by Sebastian on October 19, 2010
http://www.deals4downloads.com/blog/2010/10/19/digital-sales-only-15-percent-of-take2-business/
THQ drops Microsoft and falls in love with Steam
TweetRemember the pain when installing Dawn of War II¬¨‚Ćfrom THQ? Before you could play you had to wade through Microsoft’s awful implementation of Games for Windows Live. As complicated as the name was the whole procedure which made me almost drop the game completely and which raised a lot of frustration among the gaming community. [...]
Posted by Sebastian on September 16, 2010
http://www.deals4downloads.com/blog/2010/09/16/thq-drops-microsoft-and-falls-in-love-with-steam/
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