Changing times and increased the ability of the internet to bring the data turned out to affect the trend of the world's gamers. Way through the purchase of a physical item, such as buying a DVD game began to be abandoned and gamers switch to digital purchases or via download.
Change in trend is stated that the NPD Group research and analysis agency in the U.S. market. According to Anita Frazier, industry analyst of NPD, the market decline in physical and digital market gains seen clearly through a report from NPD.
According to this agency, gamers have spent 1.38 billion U.S. dollars in the first three months of 2012. Nearly half of these figures is the sale of digital content.
"Of these, the physical content sales have declined by 5 percent and digital content increased by 10 percent when compared with the same time in 2011," Frazier said. "Although the growth of digital content is still not exceed the reduction in the magnitude of the physical item numbers, but these changes showed a new trend in the industry," he said.
Gamers Indonesia also began to show the same trend with the Americans. Although the purchase of physical content is still quite large, gamers began to turn to the purchase of digital content.
Internet support can be counted on to start a large download content over a maximum of 5GB used by gamers. Difficult to get the physical content of a particular game is also a major reason for this trend.
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