I've talked about market research and analysis companies before, often imaging them to be populated by young men throwing ten-sided dice and constructing complex statistical reports around the random outcomes - sort of Dungeons and Dragons meets Nostradamus in a capitalist economic context. Anyway, a company named Research and Markets has just released a report entitled 'The Transforming Global Video Games Market: The Emergence of Next Generation Gaming' which guesses predicts that PS3 will win the console war. From the company's website:
"The Sony PlayStation 3 is expected to win the console war in the long term with an install base of around 75 million globally by 2010. The console is not expected to dominate as much as its predecessor, the PS2, due to late launch issues in the PAL region and the early lead of Microsofts (sic) Xbox 360."
To find out more about this piece of technological rune-casting you'll need at least 2000 euros to download the full report. I think that's money well spent.
