Headline is a smidge misleading. “PC gaming has a larger revenue than console gaming in the US” is more accurate. It’s certainly not true in other parts of the world.
It would be interesting to see an overall data, considered many part of the world (like China) consoles like Playstation and Xbox aren’t even a thing.
Places like China even gaming PCs aren’t really a thing. They mostly play on mobile, because that’s pretty much all they can realistically afford.
I am from China. I think your opinion is not true.
Chinese people is not rich, but take a month income to buy a console , it is affordable.
The fact is the strict scrutiny from the CCP and pervasive plundering of people’s privacy and the cognitive manipulation of people through the data algorithms of technology companies causing this.
In China, all the legal games need being approved by the CCP’s government, and the legal consoles just have about one hundred games approved .
The technology companies like tencent have almost all the internet portals or other Internet information channels. And almost all the Chinese internet companies must structure their CCP branch, serving for the CCP’s power, and must provide the authority delete, block, and review any information to the CCP.
In China, any information the Chinese people have received must serve the benefits of the Chinese Communist Party, let alone go against it.
That’s why Chinese people are addicted in the mobile games. Almost every console game is legally banned and the console games have only a small amount of exposure and traffic.
the console gamer in China face tough technical difficulties from the CCP to buy and download/transport. Mobile games have huge propaganda. Even the former Shanghai Municipal Party Committee Secretary/Current Prime Minister of the State Council of China Li Qiang stand up for mobile games “genshin impact“.
To be brief, in China, console game cannot bring benefits to the CCP, it provided the culture anti CCP’s values. That’s what the CCP opposes.
Maybe the better sauce https://www.visualcapitalist.com/video-game-industry-revenues-by-platform/
Everything is going to converge on mobile device gaming. Power of mobile devices goes up, internet becomes more stable…
We will never have the same power in a mobile device that we do in a desktop computer.
It’s the same issue with vr. Everything is converging on the quest because it’s easier and cheaper
What? VR has been almost completely stagnant and frankly dying since Alyx. There’s no convergence when there is zero progress overall.
I think that the mobile share will for sure continue to grow before it plateaus, but I have a hard time believing that all markets will converge to mobile within any relevant time frame. Just by virtue of not being mobile, desktop builds will always have options for larger hardware with better performance and cooling compared to their mobile competitors
True. But right now even Apple iPhones are the same power or the same chip architecture as their desktop counterparts. So the convergence is already happened. The interface of desktops will always be better. My thesis is that desktops, uneven consoles are going to become niche for their markets.
Using Mac as an example of gaming when they compose a smaller percent than even Linux users, is ridiculous. You make some interesting points elsewhere, but you completely lost me with this one.
It’s like comparing car (PC) vs bicycle (Steam Deck) vs train locomotive (Xbox/PS).
Car can get you almost anywhere in the world, bycicle mostly in the same city, but you can go hard and get into another country. And train locomotive? From point A to B. That’s it.
It’s like comparing car (PC) vs bicycle (Steam Deck) vs train locomotive (Xbox/PS).
Following this logic, where do you place Sony paying Rockstar for GTA VI not be available on PC?
There’s no technical reason why GTAVI can’t be on PC, only “Sony corp.” reasons.
Ya but that situation doesn’t really fit into this comparison of another issue very well. The closest thing I could think of would be comparing it to, say, oil companies doing something like that to give one of the others summer kind of disadvantage
The point is that differences between PC and Console are exclusively artificially built on the console side. A mere Raspberry PI 5 can fit in the PC sphere (minus hardware modularity as GPU (…even if eGPU…)) in every aspect: anything USB, including printing or complicated CAD hardware are fully compliant with Linux.
The hardware in the console are even X86 (PS4 can run Linux with some tweaks)… but you can’t run a working browser on the PS5: this limitation is artificially built by Sony because otherwise you could play free web videogames. There’s nothing technical in these limitations, the console are just PC hardware capped to the platformed holder (Sony or Microsoft), and the difference is just made by axed functionality and billions spent in advertising propaganda.
Gaming is dead to me since multiplayer is a dick measuring contest of who’s mom can afford the best Russian hacks
Thanks for the update Gary.
