Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has published a research paper Essential Facts About the Computer and Video Game Industry.
Another useful research paper I recently saw: UK Games Research. The research was made by BBC.
Check them out. They provide interesting information about sales, demographics and usage data for the year 2005.
I started coding games when I was a small kid with access to Commodore 64.
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Good reading! It mostly confirms what I have seen from other surveys but always nice to see new numbers.
I don’t want to criticize, but I thought you might want to know you have a spelling error.
“ESA) has published a reserach paper”
Research*
Speling erorr? Who me? Cant’ be… ;)
Eh, thanks! please – point all the spelling errors you can find. I would appreciate that.
Sorry to be commenting on an old post but there are some really good in-line spell checkers for both Firefox and for WordPress. ;)