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PC gaming IS bigger than consoles. It's just not the games that console gamers are wont to play. You look at the gaming stats from surveys and it's the oldy but goody games like Spider solitare and hearts that millions upon million of people play every day, day in day out.

My mother (73 years old) probably does more PC gaming than I do console gaming.

It's a somewhat false dichotomy to categorise PC gamers into 2 distinct groups: the facebook / solitare gamer vs. the action/adventure/RPG/FPSetc gamer. If you spend a lot of time on the PC playing games then you're a PC gamer, doesn't matter tha game. I find there to be a massive hypocrisy on the part of the Solitare / Facebook gamers when it comes to their attitude to the "other" i.e. my class of gamer. My sister-in-law is scathing about the console gaming her son does (and me of course), when she spends almost as much time on her Facebook games, possibly more, given she can Facebook game at work. She really needs to recognise that gaming is as big a part of her leisure time and stop being judgemental about the type of gaming my nephew and I do, simply because we like blowing stuff up, shooting people in the face and laying the smackdown on our enemies.

PC gaming will always be bigger than console gaming.



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