PC gaming is bigger than ever - and likely bigger than Wii+PS3+360 in 2007

[BenKenobi88]

mrstickball said:

BenKenobi88 said:

mrstickball said:
Just an FYI: Console sales were $5.12b in 2007 in the US - just for the hardware.

So unless that PC report is just for the US, that number is pretty bad compared to what console/handheld sales are.

Why are you talking about hardware at all?

If you want to talk hardware sales we'll have to include all the Dells, HPs, and customs that have a workable video card...I'm pretty sure PC would win in that department.

....Because unlike a PC, you actually need something other than the software to play the games? I would think that console hardware has a more viable factor in sales than PC hardware does - since the PC is a multi-function device that is rarely just a gaming platform, versus console hardware (and portables) that are for video games alone.

If your talking software alone, VGC reports 245.6 million units of software sold in NA + JP..Less bundles, it's around 200m units sold through. Just using those numbers alone, you get to around $5b in software sales (at $25 a unit)..Pretty close w/o factoring in PAL markets, or anything higher than a $25 a unit average, no?

 

 

 

Uh, you need a whole PC to play games as well...all the people who bought PC software also bought a PC somewhere along the line...

It's just not fair to count console hardware without counting PC hardware somehow.  Yes the console hardware market is big but so is the PC hardware market...it's just that not all of the PC hardware market is about games.