twesterm said:
Mudface said:
If you're going to try that method, don't take the total and divide by 4, that's just silly. You give a pretty exact amount for the PC to compare a very general for the other four, one of those not being a huge factor, and that just isn't right.
If you want to try and compare that, find the totals for each indivual console.
Why? As I said, the total for all consoles and handhelds looks likely to be around $25 million, therefore there's absolutely no way the PC's in last place. Like I also said, unless the Wii accounts for more than about 40% of that figure, the PC will actually be in first place for revenue. If you can find different figures proving otherwise, then be my guest.
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The likely part is what bothers me. I just find it incredibly hard to believe that the PC gaming market is bigger than the console market when I know it isn't.
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Well, it's likely a large exaggeration. I've taken the US sales revenue figures given by the NPD for the US market in 2007 and tripled them. If the software figures on here are anywhere near accurate, then it should only be doubled. If we go further and exclude handhelds, that gives a figure of around $13.2 billion for consoles according to the ArsTechnica report I linked to above, suggesting the PC market is around twice as big as any single console.
