Since its heyday in the late 1990s, the PC game industry has seen its share of the video game market grow increasingly smaller. Cannibalized by the onslaught of gaming console powerhouse lines Sony PlayStation and Microsoft’s Xbox line, sales of CD-ROM-based PC games, while still robust at $970 million, accounted for only 1 percent of the 18 percent increase in game sales in 2006 that totaled $13.5 billion. The future for PC games, however, could be due for a pick-me-up over the next two years.
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Can Vista Reanimate the PC-Based Gaming Market?
Posted by: Walaika Haskins February 8, 2007 04:00 AMSince its heyday in the late 1990s, the PC game industry has seen its share of the video game market grow increasingly smaller. Cannibalized by the onslaught of gaming console powerhouse lines Sony PlayStation and Microsoft’s Xbox line, sales of CD-ROM-based PC games, while still robust at $970 million, accounted for only 1 percent of the 18 percent increase in game sales in 2006 that totaled $13.5 billion. The future for PC games, however, could be due for a pick-me-up over the next two years.