Online-Enabled Sales Stats Not as Telling as They Seem
Tuesday, April 20, 2004Filed under > Published Works , ) Video Games , ] News/Features , } Other.
According to a recent announcement by the NPD Group, sales of "online-enabled console games" reached $1 billion dollars last year. On the surface, this statistic would seem to imply that a lot of people are playing games online, right?
Not necessarily. In fact, a rudimentary analysis of the numbers behind the numbers shows that at least a third of those online-enabled games probably aren’t being played online.