PC Game Software: Market Forecasts and Analysis

DFC Intelligence markets a newly updated 2025 PC game software forecast package that sizes and projects the global PC games market, which the firm says is approaching $40 billion in annual revenue. The product pairs a 25-slide PDF summary with a detailed Excel spreadsheet containing five-year forecasts and historical data going back to 2008. A single-user license includes the report, the spreadsheet, and a one-hour analyst call.

Forecasts are broken out by revenue, users, and average revenue per user across ten regions: North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Russia, MENA, Latin America, Southeast Asia and India, China, Korea, Japan, and Rest of World. Each region can be purchased separately. Segmentation covers full games, add-on content, individual and multi-game subscriptions, and premium and low-end tiers of both pay-to-play and free-to-play models. The market is characterized as diverse and fast-growing, driven by free-to-play titles such as Fortnite and League of Legends, user-generated platforms like Roblox and Minecraft, and growing cross-platform play enabled by services such as Microsoft's Game Pass. More granular data, including hardware components such as GPUs, CPUs, monitors, and cooling systems, is available on request.

The firm positions its work as "living forecasts" that are continually adjusted for news and product announcements, with buyers receiving three months of updates. DFC emphasizes its exclusive video game focus since the 1990s, its use of data mining and AI tools, and forecasts built on public information rather than inside data. It contrasts its approach with promotional, pay-to-play research firms and offshore generalist report mills. Additional offerings include subscriptions, custom consulting, expert access, and credit of report purchases toward larger packages. The firm no longer sells off-the-shelf game trackers, though it retains custom tracking data from 2005 onward.