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Gartner sees ten percent growth

Business with the imagination and aspirations of computer players flushes the market participants in this year 74 billion dollars into the coffers - it estimates the market research firm Gartner. Compared with 2010 this represents an increase of 10.4 percent.

And the boom is to continue to continue: by 2015, say the experts predict a growth of more than 50 percent to 112 billion dollars. The strongest impetus from online gambling, which according to Gartner, the market volume will increase from 11.9 billion this year to 28.3 billion dollars in 2015. Not applicable to online games this year, a share of 16 percent.

Followed by hardware such as game consoles and game software with 24 percent with 60 percent. Within the range of games software in the proportion of games for mobile phones by 2015, increasing from 15 to 20 percent.

"This large market size means that many consumers consider games as a core part of their budget on entertainment," Gartner expert Fabrizio Biscotti said on Tuesday. In online games, according to Gartner, the trend away from subscription models and toward so-called "freemium" models: where the use is free of charge, revenue is generated through advertising or the sale of game objects.