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One analyst has now significantly reduced its expectations for the financial impact virtual reality will have on the market in 2016. SuperData had at one stage predicted that VR revenues would reach $5.1bn in 2016. In March that was reduced to $3.6bn. Now the company has revised that second estimate …
Read More »A lesson from old media
Joost van Dreunen suggests mobile developers should pay more attention to the TV industry
Read More »SuperData: Digital games generated $6.2bn worldwide in February
Digital game sales were up ten per cent year-on-year this February, reaching a total value of $6.2b (4.4bn). That’s according to research firm SuperData, which reports that digital console games saw the largest growth – 34 per cent year-on-year. Console also saw a 27 per cent growth in audience. New …
Read More »Made for China: How to conquer this growing games market
SuperData Research's Joost van Dreunen discusses how to localise for this lucrative region
Read More »GfK and SuperData team up for combined digital and physical UK chart
Digital games tracker SuperData and physical charts specialists GfK are teaming up to produce a new UK chart. Published every month, the combined chart will count sales of console digital games, ending years of uncertainty around the performance of digital titles versus their physical counterparts. This will roll out across …
Read More »Learning Las Vegas: What devs can learn from the gambling hotspot of the world
Expanding outside of the world of games will become a common move for big publishers, says SuperData's Joost van Dreunen
Read More »Digital PC games outperformed mobile in 2015
SuperData report shows games for smart devices failed to match PC success
Read More »The ABCDs of India’s mobile market
SuperData’s Joost van Dreunen offers his advice on breaking into this key emerging market
Read More »Three out of four VR users will choose mobile
New SuperData report suggests smartphones will lead this year’s virtual reality push
Read More »Global VR market to reach £3.5bn in sales in 2016 – report
Virtual reality is almost upon us now, and research firm SuperData reckons that the market for the new tech will reach $5.1bn (3.5bn) by the end of the year. That’s according to the company’s ‘Virtual Reality Market Brief‘, which also predicts that the install base of VR in 2016 would …
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