Where do you propose they do that? PC ain't it. It's an even smaller and stagnant/dying platform.
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The shareholders are dumbfuck who only care about profits. If you show them good profits, they go hooray, they do not know how to run a business. Opportunity cost is a thing, you can not maximize profits from both platforms when you are a platform holder yourself, it's just nonsense. And it begs another question of why not release the games on Xbox also if you are trying to earn every penny to cover the development costs? These execs are too fucking greedy, they will learn their hard lesson when they try to do day-and-date ports and the console suddenly plummets.
The billions they earn from their ecosystem are what enable them to cover the development costs of many of their exclusives. And those exclusives lure more people into their ecosystem, which in turn makes the ecosystem earn more. They do not seem to understand 10 million copies sold is not even as profitable as 2 million gamers actively using your ecosystem.
I don't do PC gaming anymore, but this basically isn't true. PC gaming is a huge market.Where do you propose they do that? PC ain't it. It's an even smaller and stagnant/dying platform.
UK 2023 |PS5:1.2m, NSW: 720k, XBS: 650k| PS commands 49% market share/Xbox only 10%. PS5 up 55% and Xbox down 14% Flipbook info added.
Very strong physical sales ratio, which is great. Starfield's numbers are LOL!
Mmm that's not what the numbers say. Remember the conversation is PC relative to consoles.
Which numbers are you looking at? PC players dwarfs console players.
www.statista.com
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Literally the numbers in the thread I linked which demonstrate PC software sales making up 10-20% of major multiplatform releases. More players? Great. I'm sure they're having a blast on minesweeper and solitaire.Which numbers are you looking at? PC players dwarfs console players.
Number of PC gamers worldwide 2024 | Statista
In 2020, there were an estimated 1.75 billion PC gamers worldwide, up from 1.5 billion PC gaming users in the previous year.
Overall, yes, because of places like Asia where PC is much bigger than consoles. But we're specifically talking about the AAA market, PC isn't there yet compared to PS, especially not when it comes to $70 releases. PC is big for crap like League of Legends, Valorant, CSGO, Dota, etc. But actual AAA game sales don't come remotely close to PS5, so @Cool hand luke is correct. It's why releasing on PC day 1 isn't a priority for Rockstar and they're releasing the biggest game ever. They wait to buy games when they're cheaper.Which numbers are you looking at? PC players dwarfs console players.
Number of PC gamers worldwide 2024 | Statista
In 2020, there were an estimated 1.75 billion PC gamers worldwide, up from 1.5 billion PC gaming users in the previous year.
Yep, this is true, and like I mentioned above there are still way more PC players than console. It's not a "smaller" or "dying" platform as was suggested.
PC is definitely not dying, I think those are just remarks to shame on a certain PC-favored discourse about how the platform is such a fast-growing platform. I like the truth too, and the PC guys to me are a bunch of hypocrites that I really hate, despite gaming on PC for the last few years.
Pointing to market statistics and numbers could not be more dishonest? What are you, 12 years old?
This is a separate topic but the entire culture around PC gaming is one of the reasons I don't feel like going anywhere near it. You see it on this very board ...
Revenue is always positioned at the top of a financial report though. It is best used to measure growth (which basically tells you that the console market is growing, contrary to the belief of some PC fanboys). while profit just tells you about the operation efficiency (Sony has been expanding over the last few years so it is understandable that they do not have high margin profit).
Also the source on console sales in this article is vgchartz - those numbers are literally made up.More numbers.
Gaming Statistics 2024 - TrueList
Read the latest gaming statistics, discussing industry trends, gamer demographics, gaming addiction, COVID’s effect on gaming, and more.
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To say the console market did not grow just by looking at the total number of users is stupid. Revenue has been higher than ever, even with a loser like Xbox. Sony could have expanded their ecosystem further by buying some more studios and delivering even more exclusives (compared to the last generation) but they instead focus on PC porting old games while leaving their fucking actual dedicated fans with nothing to eat. It is not acceptable, and they complain about how they are not selling enough PS5. Where are the games.
