{"id":8264,"date":"2011-08-19T13:28:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T20:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8264"},"modified":"2018-07-18T18:38:32","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T18:38:32","slug":"german-game-sales-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/german-game-sales-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"German Game Sales Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10579\" style=\"width: 293px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10579\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10579\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/German-PC-Games-S.jpg\" alt=\"The German game market is still growing.\" width=\"283\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The German game market is still growing.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">AUG. 19, 2011 \u2022 According to Germany&#8217;s trade group the Federal Association for Interactive Entertainment Software, sales of PC and video games software and income from online business models rose 1% in Germany during the first half of 2011 to \u20ac793 million. The trade group expects\u00a0 growth to reach 3% by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: Games.com in Germany has become THE European trade show for the industry.\u00a0 Having it located in Germany is a good reminder that the game industry is far more than the U.S.\/U.K.\/Japan dominated console business.\u00a0 The only decline in Germany is because of a slowdown in the console business.\u00a0 However, Germany has always had a robust PC game business and has embraced online game models faster than the U.S. Because it is more diversified, the German game industry is not as subject to the cyclical ups and downs associated with the console business. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUG. 19, 2011 \u2022 According to Germany&#8217;s trade group the Federal Association for Interactive Entertainment Software, sales of PC and video games software and income from online business models rose 1% in Germany during the first half of 2011 to \u20ac793 million. The trade group expects\u00a0 growth to reach 3% by the end of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[280,168,78],"tags":[282,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8264"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13576,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264\/revisions\/13576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}