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U.S. game sales to hit $25.3 billion in 2016, thanks to rapid online growth

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U.S. sales of console and PC games are expected to hit $25.3 billion in 2016, up 7.6 percent from $23.5 billion a year earlier, according to a new report from Adobe.

The game sector is growing in large part because of booming online games and online game sales, which will account for $11.1 billion this year, or 44 percent of total sales, said Becky Tasker, the managing analyst with Adobe Digital Insights, in an interview with GamesBeat.

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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.