| breadie2 said: Console gaming (X360, PS3) is taking over PC, because both are just cheaper version of PC, with more games and less frequent upgrades of hardwares. PC games is officially dead. |
shut up, you fail.
Do not base your argument on NPD reports alone, because:
- Download services are not counted by NPD, which takes a chunk from the sales tracking. Steam alone has over 13 million users (as of May 23rd '07), and over 20% of the visitors are from US. Then add Direct2Drive, Gametap, etc...
- Game subscriptions are not tracked, which means the money of the 2.5million americans who play WoW is not accounted for. That's like $330 million right there for 2007 (monthly pay of $11 x 12 months x 2.5 million players), plus other MMO's such as Everquest, EVE online, etc...
- The US has a traditionally weak PC market. Germany alone has a bigger PC market than US. The entire Europe probably has 4 times bigger PC market than the US. Also, PC gaming is stronger than ever in Asia, with 5 million WoW asian gamers and PC controlling almost 80% of South Korea's gaming (with a revenue of 1.5 billion dollars on PC games, easily more than the US)
- And even without counting the downloaded games, averagely PC has sold around as much retail copies as the consoles:
PC retail copies sold - 36.4 million
Home Consoles retail copies - 153.9 million, (38.4 million average, ignoring Xbox/GC sales)
Portable Consoles retail copies - 77.5 million (38.7 million average, ignoring GBA sales)
36.4 vs 38.4 vs 38.7, not really that far, is it.
