Market for online games grows explosively
The Dutch market for videospellen grows hard, especially for online games. That appeared from the new edition of the 'Entertainment & Media Outlook towards 2010', a market analysis of advice desk PricewaterhouseCoopers. PwC expects that the total Dutch market for videospellen in the second half of this decade more than doubles, notwithstanding that 513 million Euros in 2010.
In 2005 gave the Dutch consumer 128 million Euros from aanconsolegames,7,6 per cent more than in 2004.,. But the market of online videospellen grew with only gladly 38.5 per cent to 108 million Euros. The market share of online videospellen walks with that on to 34 per cent of the total spending at games.
According to John means defence of PwC, the large number broad tie connections in the Netherlands sees to and the growing popularity from massive multiplayer online games (MMOG) spell for a large question to online. “Via MMOG play meanwhile thousand men world-wide simultaan via the internet”, knowledge means defence. “Well expect we that through the large present broad tie compactness the growth of online spell against 2008-2010 will stagnate. There stands opposite that thread lynx networks with high speeds the downloading of complicated thread lynx spell possible make. The online play becomes through that more attractive.”
The sale of pc-games take off. The market share went down in 2005 with 15 per cent. PwC expects source that the sale of pc-games from next year meeprofiteert of the popularity of online gamen. “The consumer that online want to join in, will firstly the concerning pc-titles at must procure”, according to means defence.
Gaming is a flourishing industry sector. World-wide goes there according to PricewaterhouseCoopers forty until sixty billion euro in. To expectation, this sum will double the coming years at least. Together with (wireless) broad tie internet, with that is gaming the fastest growing market segment within the media-entertainmentsector.
Also the gaming-industry in the Netherlands gets always more foot at the ground. Concentrated the activity till for short yet around Silicon Valley and Rewarded, has been launched nevertheless also in the Netherlands a large number of initiatives. The most known Dutch gamesproducent is Guerrilla Games. That its acquaintance has to thank at the furrow PlayStation developed wereldhit Killzone. Furthermore enterprises as a Zylom (internetgames), Playlogic (publisher and producer), Icemobile (mobile gaming) broke through and Streamline Studios.
John means defence expects in the Netherlands also a fast rise of 'serious gaming' : an application knowledge transfer more accessible to make.