PC gaming is on the biggest resurgence since the dip of 00. It's affordable AF to put a 1080p/1440p ultra machine together. With emulation and steam there's 10's thousands of games to play including every AAA game from Sony and Microsoft.
CESA Game Industry Report 2024: Japan's PC game revenue triplied in 4 years
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Jeez you're getting so mad replying; guess the truth must be a bit irritating for you to hear, huh?
Nothing you said in this response disproved anything either of my posts were speaking about, BTW. So now you've missed the point twice. Oh and remind me when their recent push is successful again once they specify PC games revenue in the next fiscal report vs. lumping it in with other platforms.
Then let's really see how successful it is without a viral sensation like Helldivers 2 around to prop up the numbers. Then we can talk
The Japanese have obviously figured out which platform is the best for gaming
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I only highlight that the objective and factual data says that your narrative goes totally against the truth. I don't get irritated by fantasies.
Don't forget to also not count Destiny 2 The Final Shape, which also performed great. You don't want to count their most successful games because of potatoes.Then let's really see how successful it is without a viral sensation like Helldivers 2 around to prop up the numbers. Then we can talk
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Bullshit.
This is a preview of the 2024 edition of the yearly report of the CESA, the national association of game publishers, like the ESA for USA. This is the only official report in the industry for the Japanese market, made with the first hand sources, the publishers and main retailers/storefrons.
Only some console fanboys say that PC gaming is dying.
PC keeps growing, like console or mobile, and has a size somewhat similar to the console market in the worldwide market. As can be seen in the worldwide gaming market graph of this same report or in all the other serious ones, from proper sources like big publishers, national associations and the main firms like IDC or Newzoo.
There was the "coming back to reality" post covid slowdown in 2021 due to delays etc., but other than that it keeps growing.
Regarding Japan, some people wrongly thinks that the Famitsu sales ranking is representative of the Japanese market. But it isn't because it misses the digital sales and addons revenue from console (which every year represents a bigger percentage of the total game revenue) and obviously misses most PC and mobile game revenue because they were basically all digital.
The Famitsu sales ranking only include physical game sales, this one includes instead both digital and physical game revenue sources.
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Pc has the biggest library, yes. But a lot of people don't want the hassle of drivers, optimising, troubleshooting etc.
why would helldivers 2 be relevant to japanese gamers
sony has absolutely nothing to offer japanese gamers on steam as of yet
It's true! I love PC gaming, but even I recognize the importance of optimizing settings and keeping drivers up to date. Just recently, I had to annoyingly change my display settings every time I launched The Evil Within.
This is just one of the reasons that low cost devices streamlined for gaming, like Playstation, Xbox and Nintendo, will continue to have a market for the foreseeable future.
None existent on pre builds and Steams big picture mode.
It's as easy as installing a game on console, using mods and updating games.
I don't entirely disagree. All the same, there are many who still perceive PCs as having configuration overhead. That perception alone is enough to influence some buying decisions.
As someone who has been PC gaming for over two decades, I would say things are easier today than ever before.
That perception is incorrect. Just like saying Linux is an unusable operating system. For all but .05% of usage, Linux is superior to Windows.
As a PC gamer: please do not mislead people into thinking you won't ever have to do troubleshooting for games. Like yes most games are going to work fine to mostly fine, but
If you game on PC regularly you are going to run into games that require off site fixes of some kind, or fiddling with the settings to fix some bug, or reading forums to see what the fix for an issue is.
Its not often, but it does happen. I for the life of me couldn't get Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness running on my PC, for example (the remaster I assume will resolve this issue). Granted its a buggy game to begin with but
I'm just saying if you game on PC a lot you will eventually have to troubleshoot something
This is true. It's worth the small conveniences for the amount of games available at your finger tips. A lot of games are shareware and abandonware. Add epics free games, gog and bumble bundle, it's dirt cheap to pc game.
I know for me it has configuration overhead because I try to get the most out of it on a per game basis. And I like to fuck around and see if I can squeeze a few extra FPS out of it. Or just plain optimizing stuff. That's why I chose PC.
But others want comfort to a certain level or absolute comfort and I can see them turning the PC a blind eye because of it. Even though its not much work and actually fun to do.
I also like fine tuning my PC for better performance. Though, I did brick my Bluetooth audio connection recently fiddling around too much with my audio drivers.
Thankfully, I still have wireless connection to fall back on.