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[–] 13 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Worth pointing out that Circana does not fully track Steam (only some, albeit large publishers). They don't track GOG or Epic at all (they are of course a lot smaller than Steam).

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Why would any of that affect physical software? Does steam and gog sell cartridges or discs that I'm unaware of?

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    I got confused by the following:

    While Circana reports that content spending was up 1% year-over-year to $4.8 billion, that's with subscription spending rising 16% and 2% growth in mobile.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    That's just saying overall revenue is up, but that includes digital sales like subscriptions and mobile storefront sales.

    While physical sales are down, the digital sales make up for the loss to the point of actually being a 1% gain.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    If it refers to the total games software market (digital sales, physical sales, micro-transactions, subscriptions and mobile), then I think I my point stands.

    I wasn't sure if "content spending" excludes say micro-transactions for software that is not available physically.

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