Report: PC gaming has a larger market share than all consoles combined

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.
But now compare it to places where consoles literally don't exist or are in such minor numbers? Fuck it. Take China alone.

Maybe the better sauce https://www.visualcapitalist.com/video-game-industry-revenues-by-platform/

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.

... almost everyone already has a computer, often for school/work. A console is a separate instrument though.

This is kinda like saying there's more tablespoons than ladles in American kitchens.

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- Right. Just saying that when the size of the PC industry is so much bigger, is it any surprise whatsoever that PC gaming also dominates? I would have expected no other result.
as @Spuddlesv2 noted, this is about the market in terms of money made in the US and specifically in the sphere of gaming; not the single units delivered.

Still, we can extend skepticism on this data considering that most of the money is, probably, made in microtransactions: all consoles driven by their own monopolistic entity (Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo) are in disadvantaged because they demands cuts while on PC, as Epic Store with Fortnite and Steam with CS:GO, those who publish on PC are free to take the 100% of their cuts without have to split with the platform holder (Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo). The appeal for GaaS, unfortunately, is vastly huge on both Mobile and PC (as open platforms) than consoles (which are closed).
What is a tablespoon in the US then? In the UK a tablespoon is probably not that much more common than a ladle, it's much bigger than anything you'd use to eat with and generally is used as a serving spoon or a measurement when cooking/baking.

Our "common" spoon which is mouth sized is called a dessert spoon.

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.
- Isn't this the usual Rockstar strategy? GTA V and RDR2 both came on consoles first and later on PC.
- 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
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.

Everything is going to converge on mobile device gaming. Power of mobile devices goes up, internet becomes more stable....

Ah yes small screen and bad controls. Truly the future of gaming
- Why would it need to stay that way though? Once a phone has similar processing power there's no reason you couldn't hook it up to any screen and Bluetooth a controller.
  
  We're a few decades from that if I had to guess (based on very little, I'm not an expert at all), but seems totally plausible to me.
  
  I imagine chess players laughed in a similar way when pong came out.
- The current mobile form will improve, the ubiquitous nature of it will dominate.
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.
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- It’s the same issue with vr. Everything is converging on the quest because it’s easier and cheaper
- Depends on your POV. My phone is more powerful than the first computers I've had.
  
  Thanks to Apple everyone has to take arm processors seriously, since M1 it's not the "efficient, but shitty" processor, everyone needs to support it.
  
  Phones are slowly getting there. Sure, we're not seeing 4070 GPU equivalent in the near future. But most people's computers are really shitty as well, including the low-end gaming computers.