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Report: PC gaming has a larger market share than all consoles combined (archive.is)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[+] [email protected] -16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You might be right (I don't know enough about Apple proprietary hardware to know otherwise), but that's not the same for PC or console. There's no reason that I can think of to assume that those platforms will stop development. For any generation, I can't see PC hardware being less powerful or less efficient than its mobile counterpart, it just makes no sense to me. Therefore, there will always be a group of users with no mobile needs who want the best performance who will keep the platform alive.

It's also worth noting that mobile's market share growth hasn't come mostly from people switching from console/PC to mobile, but from new gamers starting off on the mobile platform.

(FWIW I don't think you deserve nearly the amount of downvotes you're getting)