LONDON, Dec. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportbuyer.com just published a new market research report:
Worldwide Digital PC and Mac Gaming 2013-2017 Forecast
This IDC study forecasts the digital PC and Mac gaming market worldwide through 2017 along several dimensions. The industry's main business models -- subscriptions, prepaid downloads and add-ons, and freemium -- are separately sized and assessed. North America is also broken out from a combined rest of the world region, and hardcore market dynamics are distinguished from games and online gaming communities that have a more casual orientation.
"The rise of the freemium business model in Asia/Pacific has been impressive in recent years, and this fundamental transformation of PC gaming should advance globally through 2017," says Lewis Ward, research manager of IDC's Gaming. "Digital PC gaming is becoming a service industry in which building customer engagement and finding clever ways to get gamers to open their wallets -- informed by big data analytics and real-time monitoring of online gamer preferences -- will become the cornerstone of developer and publisher/portal success."
Table of Contents
IDC Opinion
In This Study
Methodology
Situation Overview
Worldwide Survey Results
U.S. Survey Results
Business Models
Casual/Enthusiast Subscriptions
Hardcore Subscriptions
Casual/Enthusiast Prepaid Downloads
Hardcore Prepaid Downloads
Casual/Enthusiast Freemium (Including Ad-Oriented)
Hardcore Freemium
Future Outlook
Forecast and Assumptions
Worldwide Forecast
North American Forecast
Rest of World Forecast
Market Context
Essential Guidance
Learn More
Related Research
Definitions
Methodology
Historical Market Values and Exchange Rates
Synopsis
Table: U.S. Online PC Gamer Demographics and Select Metrics by Gamer Type, 2Q13
Table: Top 3 Assumptions for the Worldwide Digital PC and Mac Gaming Market, 2013-2017
Table: Key Forecast Assumptions for the Worldwide Digital PC and Mac Gaming Market, 2013-2017
Table: Worldwide Digital PC Gamers and Revenue by Segment, 2008-2017
Table: North American Digital PC Gamers and Revenue by Segment, 2008-2017
Table: Rest of World Digital PC Gamers and Revenue by Segment, 2008-2017
Table: Worldwide Digital PC Gaming Revenue, 2008-2017: Comparison of September 2012 and December 2013 Forecasts ($M)
Table: Exchange Rates, 2003-2012 (%)
Figure: Online Household Penetration Rates for Online PC Gaming and Digital PC Game Payments in the Preceding Month by Region, 2Q13
Figure: U.S. Online PC Gamer ARPPU by Business Model, 2Q13
Figure: U.S. Top Online PC Gamer Spending Share for All Online Gamers and Game Downloaders/Buyers by Genre, 2Q13
Figure: U.S. Top Online PC Gamer Spending Share for Casual Subscribers and Hardcore Subscribers by Genre, 2Q13
Figure: U.S. Top Online PC Gamer Spending Share For Casual Freemium Spenders and Hardcore Freemium Spenders by Genre, 2Q13
Figure: Worldwide Digital PC Gaming Revenue Share by Business Model, 2013
Figure: Rest of World Digital PC Gaming Revenue Share by Major Region, 2013
Figure: Worldwide Digital PC Gaming Revenue, 2008-2017: Comparison of September 2012 and December 2013 Forecasts
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Worldwide Digital PC and Mac Gaming 2013-2017 Forecast
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