<49.6 million Americans play online games.
http://www.iht.com/articles/52713.html The major providers of online
games are Microsoft, Sony Online, GameSpy, Electronic Arts and Yahoo.
Each company provides a number of online game sites.
Microsoft
Xbox live http://www.microsoft.com/xbox/ costing $49 for a one year
subscription has 350,000 subscribers in the U.S. and Canada. It hosts
3 million game sessions per week.
http://www.gamemarketwatch.com/news/item.asp?nid=2649
http://www.videogamingonline.com/exec/game_article.asp?media_id=195
http://www.broadbandweek.com/news/020715/print/020715_opinion_arlen.htm
Game Spy has 4 million subscribers in the U.S.A and over 500,000
visitors per day. http://fr.guillemot.com/brand/gi/giprofil/giprofil27e.html
Sony Online has over 13 million registered users.
http://www.instantservice.com/news/articles/20020909.html
Sony’s most popular game sites include Station.com and PS2 Games
online.
Its game site Station.com hosts a number of games. The most popular
game is EverQuest which has a subscription fee of $12.95 per month
paid by over 450,000 subscribers.
http://money.cnn.com/2002/10/08/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/
EverQuest has 76,000 visitors per day
http://www.poptech.org/article_detail.jsp?news_id=49
PS2 Games online had over 500,000 subscribers by the end of March 2003
and expects to have over1 million by the end of its fiscal year.
http://www.videogamingonline.com/exec/game_article.asp?media_id=262
Electronic Arts http://www.ea.com/home/home.jsp has over 1.5 million
visitor per month. http://www.info.ea.com/pr/pr116.doc
Their most popular site is Ultima Online with 225,000 subscribers
paying $9.95 per month.
Electronic Arts The Sims http://thesims.ea.com/ earnt $30 million
revenue with online subscriptions last year.
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82%257E10834%257E730745,00.html
The Sims has over 1 million registered users and 1 million unique
visitor s per month.
Gamecube online – there don’t appear to be any published figures for
the number of subscribers. This appears to be due to the fact that the
Gamecube online launched after its competitors and prospective buyers
have already purchased adaptors for PS2 and Xbox. See
http://features.gaminghorizon.com/ps2_online_7.html
Yahoo offers free games and subscription based games with extra
features. Yahoo had 9.4 million unique players in January 2003. It
declines to give figures of the number of subscribers.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/20937.html>
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<E-gaming set to become serious business.>
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<Online games>
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<Electronic content.>
<http://www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/innovation/2002/electronic/attachments/digitalcontent.pdf>
<Online gaming a revolution ahead.>
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