Update: Over 303M Registered Virtual World Accounts

Nic Mitham of K Zero has continued the tiring task of tracking virtual world growth across the metaverse. He's updated his "Universe Graph," with figures from 2008 Q2 and added in several new worlds as well. It's a big jump--almost double the size of the 173.61 million registered users he tracked in January, though that's in part due to the addition of new worlds. Now, across 21 virtual worlds, there's over 303 million registered accounts. Unsurprisingly, most of those users come from the massive amounts of worlds out there aimed at younger users.  In fact, only Second Life is posting numbers in the 30+ sector,  and only four worlds are showing user numbers in to 20-30 category. There's been discussion about whether the kids world boom is a bubble set to pop, but there's clearly still plenty of room to grow with the other demographics. [Check out the full-size chart at K Zero]

Comments

[nic mitham]

Just before this headline heads anywhere else, i'd like to point out that more worlds are now included in this analysis compared to the last revision, hence why the total is a lot higher.

Overall q-o-q growth across worlds has been in the 10 - 15% range.

[Joey Seiler]

Thanks for the heads up and clarification, Nick.

NOTE: I've edited the headline. It used to read "Over 303M Registered Virtual World Accounts; Almost Double Q1" and added a clarification to the post.