PlayStation is a bigger and more important invention than PC

[zarx]

Kresnik said:

zarx said:

Riku148 said:

Actually you are wrong because yuo can play mmo games on consoles so we don't know what that data means

mmo games like MAG for example.....and bytheway SNES SUCKS!!!!

MAG is not an MMO tho...

There are a few MMOs on consoles but so far they have all flopped. Even taking those numbers away PC would still be ahead as shown by that last image you know with PC screens having 1.15b hours per week vs 323m for games on TV screens. Time spent favours PC by a country mile, and unique players PC is also ahead with 143m vs 105m.

Not to mention in most listed reigons PC retail+digital is arround the time spent on console games even without all the MMO and Web games that are both mostly played via PC.

You're mostly right, stuff like DCUO and Champions of Norrath never really took off.

Wasn't Final Fantasy XI on PS2 actually pretty successful though, especially as far as console MMO's go?  At least from the VGChartz figures, it seems to have sold quite decently. I assumed that's why Sony were so desperate to get FFXIV to the PS3 before they realised it was a pile of... well, you know.

FF XI has been by far the most successful console MMO, but even that PS2+X360+PC peaked at 500k active players which is tiny verses games like WoW with 10m+ active subs. Then there are games like RuneScape on PC with 8.5 million active players,  The Legend of Mir 3 with 750k simultanious players (Korea and China), Knight Online with 4.25+ active accounts, Guild Wars 2 million active users. And there are dozzens of MMOs on PC vs a handful of them on consoles.