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NPD Tracking Online Gaming Subscriptions

Peonculture.com

By Casey Blakeney

The NPD Group is something loved and loathed by gamers all over North America (and often even abroad). They give us the numbers that are spewed throughout every gaming forum for weeks after their release, and then predicted for weeks before the next one.

Now the NPD Group will be expanding on what they report. Along with their regular monthly numbers, which includes PC gaming software and console hardware and software sales in North America, they will now also be publishing a quarterly report on statistics revolving around online subscriptions. This will include popular MMO games, Xbox Live, as well as membership driven gaming sites (i.e. Gametap or Steam).
 

OUR TAKE: This could make the monthly spew-fest on the forums much more interesting. Maybe the PC elitist crowd will have something realistic to crow about now, rather than just using assumed figures or facts from a decade ago. 4 divided factions duking it out is infinitely more entertaining than 3, as long as you're lurking from the sidelines laughing at all of them.

At least we'll finally have some solid numbers as to just how dominant World of Warcraft really is in the online gaming market.

 

 

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