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PC online games will hit $30.7B by 2017

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The massively multiplayer online PC gaming market is expected to grow from $24.4 billion in 2014 to $30.7 billion in 2017, according to a market research report by analyst firm Newzoo and performance marketing firm Ad2Games.

By 2017, the PC/MMO game market will account for 31 percent of global game market revenues, the report said. Territories such as Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Asia will account for 95 percent of the market growth from 2014 to 2017.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.