Growth of Digital Games

Extracted 27MAR2012 from http://venturebeat.com/2012/03/22/digital-game-sales-reach-3-3b-in-u-s-and-eu...

Digital game sales reached a total of $3.33 billion in the fourth quarter in the U.S. and Europe, according to the NPD Group. The U.S. number is up 9 percent from a year ago, though comparison data isn’t available for Europe.

The numbers show that digital games — excluding those sold at physical retail stores — are a growing part of the business, while console games have been shrinking for the past couple of years...

In the U.S., fourth-quarter physical retail game software sales were $4.5 billion, down 3 percent from a year earlier. That means that digital games are about a third of the size of the physical retail game software business.