Comments on: Comscore Says 217 Million Play Online Games http://forge.ironrealms.com/2007/07/10/comscore-says-217-million-play-online-games/ A blog on virtual worlds, games, and digital content, from Matt Mihaly Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:38:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Matt http://forge.ironrealms.com/2007/07/10/comscore-says-217-million-play-online-games/#comment-22726 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:29:35 +0000 http://forge.ironrealms.com/2007/07/10/comscore-says-217-million-play-online-games/#comment-22726 Yep, those flaws are all correct I'd say Adrian. On the other hand, the entire retail PC game sector that isn't reflected there (e.g. a good portion, though an unknown portion, of WoW's users are reflected there) is pretty insignificant. I can't imagine they'd add more than 10 million to that figure and I think that's probably being quite generous. Yep, those flaws are all correct I’d say Adrian.

On the other hand, the entire retail PC game sector that isn’t reflected there (e.g. a good portion, though an unknown portion, of WoW’s users are reflected there) is pretty insignificant. I can’t imagine they’d add more than 10 million to that figure and I think that’s probably being quite generous.

]]> by: Adrian Crook http://forge.ironrealms.com/2007/07/10/comscore-says-217-million-play-online-games/#comment-22725 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:25:37 +0000 http://forge.ironrealms.com/2007/07/10/comscore-says-217-million-play-online-games/#comment-22725 Hmm. The #s seems flawed. 217M is the gross total of unique visitors to the top 10 gaming websites (like Yahoo Games, MSN Games, etc). So it doesn't account for: 1) The difference between visitors and players 2) Any overlap in uniques between sites (i.e. 1 person who plays on two or more sites) And as you mentioned, it doesn't capture anyone launching a game via client s/w, which is pretty much the entire retail PC game sector. But I'm sure we'll see "217M online gamers!" popping up in some powerpoints henceforth. Hmm. The #s seems flawed. 217M is the gross total of unique visitors to the top 10 gaming websites (like Yahoo Games, MSN Games, etc). So it doesn’t account for:

1) The difference between visitors and players
2) Any overlap in uniques between sites (i.e. 1 person who plays on two or more sites)

And as you mentioned, it doesn’t capture anyone launching a game via client s/w, which is pretty much the entire retail PC game sector.

But I’m sure we’ll see “217M online gamers!” popping up in some powerpoints henceforth.

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