Monday, April 10, 2006

Some interesting game statistics

Estimate of the size of the underground market for selling virtual items and money from EverQuest and other online games:
US$200m-800m

Gigabytes of EverQuest data downloaded since 1999:
9 million gigabytes

Video game hardware and software market by 2009:
$30billion

Online gaming market by 2009:
$10billion

Sony's online games servers:
1500 servers

Kilometers of wire and cable connecting EQ servers in San Diego:
30 km

Source: Sony Corp., IDC, DFC Intelligence. Note: All figures are estimates.

Note2: Taken from here
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