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[DFG]

Real Arcade usually gets the number 1 ranking in the casual games industry. However, I have a suspicion MSN Zone.com and Yahoo Games now outsell Real.

Anyone have similar suspicions?

[Bmc]

Real Arcade usually gets the number 1 ranking in the casual games industry. However, I have a suspicion MSN Zone.com and Yahoo Games now outsell Real.

Anyone have similar suspicions?

I've actually read that Real is in 3rd place after the 2 you mentioned & Pogo, I wonder how long til google gets in on this action.

[Jack Norton]

LOL if google decides to publish software (not only games) everyone else will close... :D

[ManuelFLara]

I've actually read that Real is in 3rd place after the 2 you mentioned & Pogo, I wonder how long til google gets in on this action.
If Google's "Don't be evil" means they give 70% of the profit per sale to the developer, I'm all for it! :-)

[Matthew]

Pasted from the GDC Casual Games Summit keynote by John Welch (PlayFirst). Slides are available online here (http://www.igda.org/online/library/2005Tutorial/Download.zip), and this is taken from slide 7 notes:


Speaking notes for destinations/retailers:
- Some are quite large, but none as powerful as Wal-Mart in the retail channel.
- Top five (in terms of unit sales): Yahoo! Games, MSN Zone, Shockwave.com, RealArcade, Big Fish Games
The number of destinations was ZERO in April 2001, six in 2003, and is now growing rapidly.