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research firm Gartner predicts that we will pay 10% more games this year than in 2010. And expenditure is set at U.S. $ 100 dollars in 2015

If you think you spend a lot of video games, which is clearly not alone. Research firm Gartner has predicted this week that sales of hardware and software will reach $ 74bn games this year, 10.4% of sales for 2010 of $ 67 billion. In the software segment, the company expects mobile gaming more and more important, by the growing popularity of smart phones and tablets, their participation in the sector will grow by 15% in 2010 to 20% in 2015. Here is a chart released with Google Speadsheets:

online gaming is expected to grow at the expense of retail sales, as the popularity of digital distribution and free to play browser games. Interestingly, Gartner expects that revenues from subscription titles like World of Warcraft to fall in the form of micro-transactions and other freemium gain strength, thanks in part to the enormous popularity of games based on freemium social Farmville.

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