The Death of the Video Game Console Market

[shio]

Sky Render said:
Oh, this isn't the first time, rest assured. The PC gaming industry ignored Nintendo as long as they could when the NES came about. I don't think any genuine acknowledgment came about from most of the industry, in fact, until the SNES was launched. Though the developers who survived that era had (for the most part) thrown their lot in with the NES and Nintendo by then, the PC gaming media still liked to deny its existence regularly. Some of that mentality remains today in the form of PC supporters denying the existence and impact of video game consoles at large, actually...

Anyway, point is, eventually even the delusional sorts will have to admit the truth. Even if it takes another half-decade.

What are you talking about? Console market always made more revenue than the PC market (except in the primordial soup). In NES/SMS generation the console games sold far better than PC games: SMB3 sold 17 millions, DW3 3.8 millions, etc... infact, there was almost no million sellers on PC.

But today, there are far more PC games released than console games and that many of those PC games even sell better than console games. The fact that today's 2 biggest game franchises are for PC tells you something (Sims, WoW).

PC is gaining territory, and I'm betting that in a few years it will pass the Console market's revenue. Asia will seek to that.