{"id":33708,"date":"2012-03-07T11:03:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T09:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=33708"},"modified":"2012-03-07T12:11:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T10:11:04","slug":"pc-gaming-sales-hit-record-heights-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/33708-pc-gaming-sales-hit-record-heights-in-2011","title":{"rendered":"PC gaming sales hit record heights in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to The PC Gaming Alliance, PC<\/a> game sales have risen globally by 15% year-over-year in 2011, reaching a record turn-over of $18.6 billion.<\/p>\n

The report notes that PC gaming growth was particularly impressive in China, whose year-over-year growth hit 27%, or $6 billion.<\/p>\n

The free-to-play market was cited as one of the primary reasons for the impressive growth.<\/p>\n

Publishers such as Bigpoint and Tencent performed extremely well, and according to the Alliance, “Tencent will have surpassed Activsion<\/a> as the company that generates the most revenue from PC games” once the “full numbers are presented for 2011.”<\/p>\n

Games such as Skyrim and Battlefield 3 were also mentioned, with large revenues being drawn through digital distribution channels.<\/p>\n

According to the Alliance, “growing access to broadband connections and the increasing ease of digital distribution delivery solutions and payment” will elevate growth to 37%, or $25.5 billion by 2015.<\/p>\n

The PC Gaming Alliance has been going for 4 years, and is a “non-profit, industry-led consortium,” whose members include staff from AMD<\/a>, Intel<\/a>, Epic Games<\/a>, Capcom<\/a>, Razer and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

15% growth in 2011 shows PC gaming definitely not dying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":33071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[31,807,2618],"class_list":["post-33708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-active","tag-pc-gaming","tag-pc-gaming-alliance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33710,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33708\/revisions\/33710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}