All you have to do now is multiply
the average console price assuming an even split -LRB--LRB-($ 500 + $ 400) / 2) = $ 450) by those hypothetical sales figures ($ 450 x 5 million) which leaves us with $ 2.25 B.
Not exact matches
Is the experience worth the purchase
price of the game for
average console gamers?
The two
consoles averaged 75.7 in rating and $ 15.25 per title otherwise yet both figures are still lower than those for the two
consoles in Xbox Live's Games With Gold program, which trends more toward established titles or those that otherwise have higher
price points.
there are also drm free sites for pc gamers like gog and guess what, those
prices are on
average cheaper than they are on
consoles.
Now Terapeak.com has solved that pesky issue with their new videogames index which tracks and compares
consoles in terms of total items sold, total sales, and
average selling
price on eBay.
However after commodores and spectrums died out and the amigas which followed and
consoles came into play
average game
prices went up from about # 3 - 8 to about # 20 - 40 and you could only buy them if they were published.
High speed broadband along with lower
pricing and additional extras have allowed digital editions to reach an
average 15 to 20 % attach rate and this percentage is set to continue growing in 2016 with many estimating that half of all
console and portable games will be sold via digital download by the end of the generation.
The
average selling
price of home
console software increased slightly this year as lower
priced Wii software sales declined and higher
priced Wii U software sales increased.
This actually worked for Microsoft with the Xbox 360 Slim with the
average selling
price of the
console increasing in 2011 over 2010.
Whilst unit sales will be up year over year it is clear that the
average selling
price of the
console will have decreased by $ 50 or more.
That 7 year of gaming will come down to $ 750, purely spent on the
console, without including the cost of games (for which you will pay more than an
average PC gamer pays for his, unless you can freely sell them for a somewhat decent
price, which we all know you won't), a TV, a second controller and other overpriced
console gear.
Still, Anita Frazier, an analyst for the NPD Group, says that the drop is actually due to the
price cuts the
console manufacturers made, pointing out that «the
average retail
price of hardware across all platforms declined 8 % from last September».
The $ 249
price point puts the EVO 2 in line with current - gen
consoles, but the games it can potentially offer — at least with regards to what Android gaming has delivered thus far — can't hope to compete on the same level as your
average Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 release.