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[Alby_da_Wolf]

XanderZane said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

XanderZane said:

Zlejedi said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

Conegamer said:

Wii is second after price cut week, so sad

BUT barely! 2k is nothing. I'm not screaming overtracked, because I'm not like that. But all these Sony fanboys screaming statistical tie or whatever seem to have quietened down when they're in the lead

Wii may make first, but more likely to stay second. Depends if PS360 drop after LA Noire, and by how much.

Didn't you learn the rule yet? It applies to every architecture: If your favourite console is first by a whisker, it's first, if it's second by a whisker it's a testicular pie!   

Although there are exceptions to fanboyism that are like a bright light in the obscurity: PC gaming is actually the biggest, but the most undertracked, nevertheless we PC gamers don't scream! Actually we got no time to do it, we must update drivers, fix bugs, get around incompatibilities and Windows quirks, etc to make our games eventually run.   

Speak about yourself ;) I always like to point out how rediculusly undertracked PC games on VGC are ;)

Overall PC gaming is still last compared to console & handheld gaming. Even if it was tracked correctly it still wouldn't make as much as console games do overall. Console game sales have over $100 billion yearly. Now the Witcher 2 is one of the most popular PC games ever and yet compare it's worldwide sales to a new IP like L.A. Noire and it doesn't even come close. Even if you included Steam sale and every online sales it wouldn't come close to what L.A. Noire sold in it's first week. and both of these games aren't even in the popular genre. What's the next HOT PC game coming out. Let's see how the sales do for that game. Only PC games  that seen to sell what are Blizzard games and EA's Sims games. Oh yeah and Valve's FPS.

If you track PC during a whole generation, it's always in the order of magnitude of the gen's winner, and it often beats it too. It doesn't beat all the home consoles of a given gen put together, though, this is true, because of the at least 300M PC gamers, only 1/3 play games with an intensity comparable to console gamers, even caual ones, and not mostly small, mostly free, games that are more casual than the most casual console ones. So yes, maybe PC gaming isn't as big as the whole console gaming, but it's in the same order of magnitude of the single biggest console platforms, and when the gen's winner doesn't exceed 100M by very much, PC becomes the first platform, taken individually.

PC gaming includes more then one platform though. Where as for consoles there is the Wii, PS3 and 360. The PC has desktops, laptops and tablets that games can be played on, so there is more then one platform (or device). PC gaming has grown over the last 3 years. A lot of it is due to cheaper digital DLC and social network applications. MMO's are still king on the PC. There are 100's of MMO's out there.

Yes, you could consider desktops, laptops and tablets different HW platforms, and different SW ones too, but while this could be a problem in the period between Win95 until Win2000 included, since XP, its user base become fastly incredibly huge granted that XP itself became a unifying architecture with HW and SW support and compatibility granted even when successive versions of Windows were released, and Vista's disappointing sales compared to it, made it even stronger. So since XP, a unified Windows PC platform actually exists (also against MS wishes that would like more people to upgrade to successive versions, while most users happy with XP don't want to drop it until it's supported). It can be argued that also Win 3.x was a unifying Windows PC architecture for many years, more than 5, but back then Windows had a small user base compared to what Windows achieved later and it was almost irrelevant as a gaming platform compared to DOS on PC and to the most successful consoles of its times. But I agree that for what regards genres and styles of gaming, PC always was quite defferent from consoles and it is even more now, more recently also regarding business model, up to a point that direct comparisons don't make much sense (except maybe with XB360 during the first half of its life, but more with XB1) if not for mere sake of comparing sales volumes and revenues of HW and SW.