by Jeff Woleslagle on Jan 24, 2006
A couple of weeks ago I posted a news article on the fact that in addition to the illegal downloading of PC software that MMO's also had an impact on the decline of PC game sales last year. Is there any truth to this story? Yes.
According to recent research, as online gaming picked up in popularity, annual U.S. retail sales of PC game software sank 14 percent to $953 million last year, down from $1.1 billion in 2004, according to data by the NPD Group.
You can read the full MSNBC article here!