China: China’s Gaming Future
Gamasutra has a great Q & A up with Lisa Cosmas Hanson, director of Niko Partners - who just released a study a study entitled "2007 Chinese Video Game Market Annual Review & Forecast Report." 2006 saw huge leaps in the revenue and market share of online games, but Hanson talks mostly about where China's going, not where it's been. Will China produce a WoW like hit in the next decade? What companies are benefitting from the huge growth of the industry? And what about that pesky pirating problem?
She's got some interesting things to say on the free to play model, the future of consoles in China (which have traditionally lagged behind PC based games), and the challenges faced by Western companies wanting to break into the market.
Q&A: Niko's Hanson On China's Gaming Future [Gamasutra]
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