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Games with online twice as profitable, report finds

Posted on September 11th, 2007 at 10:19 EDT

While games with online components have become commonplace on the PS3 and Xbox 360, a new report from the research firm Electronic Entertainment Design and Research (EEDR) highlights exactly how important online is to developers, concluding that games with online components may bring in as much as double the profit a similar offline game might.

A overview of the report written by Reuters shows that games with online multiplayer bring in twice as much revenue, while games with an online component bring in 25 percent more than games with no online component at all.

The analysis involved 219 retail titles and 187 downloadable games. It found that 77 percent of Xbox 360 games have online features in some form, compared with 67 percent of PS3 titles, and 2 percent of Wii titles.

Source: Reuters

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posted 10:22am EDT - September 11th, 2007
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Ah....DUH! Thank you Captin Obvious, its like that never made sense until you pointed it out just now. How is this news?

posted 10:46am EDT - September 11th, 2007
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lol at ragingstorm,

yeah it is pretty obvious really, i only get games with online content, play the game against computer then, test my new found skills against others online, huge learning curve being online (i remember i got UT2003 on pc completed the game then thought i was good to enough to go online......how wrong i was!) lol

posted 10:53am EDT - September 11th, 2007
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DUH i know really, geez. Who's this Jordan Le Doux. These guys who work here cant think of any thing better than wasting time posting this kind of crap? How lazy is this worker, maybe he'll make a new post about how blu-ray is better t han a regular dvd!

posted 11:02am EDT - September 11th, 2007
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psn id: gingo... lol at wii with percentage of online games pitiful, anyway this is quite obvious but good news anyway (take hint lair and heavenly sword)

posted 1:13pm EDT - September 11th, 2007
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I can't believeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee my bad I fell asleep reading this wanna be news

posted 3:43pm EDT - September 11th, 2007
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2% Wii... lol and it should be better than the PS2? Equal graphics, equal internet apperantley, and the can both use wireless motion sensitive, even though it's not so huge a thing on the PS2, but at least it got a better lineup of games, and a better controller for non-mtoin-sensitive games

posted 11:57pm EDT - September 11th, 2007
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Wait. So they're saying games with longer playtime sell more? Really?! Amazing.........

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