PlayStation is a bigger and more important invention than PC

[zarx]

Mnementh said:

zarx said:

Mnementh said:
I would agree, that more gamers are on console-platforms than on PC (it's a feeling, not knowledge), but 90% is ridiculous. Have you data to back this claim?

I have real data

You have great data, thanks for sharing. I'm not surprised, that this data don't back the ridiculous statement (90% of gamers on console). But it had some surprises. Boxed+Download-PC-games get a similar amount of game-time as console. From the better sales of multiplat-titles on console I thought, console would also get more play-time. I also surprised, how big casual websites are. That is even more surprising, as you can count also social gaming, that mostly are casual games on websites. The players here pay not as much as console-gamers, but these games take a surprising big amount of play-time. Interesting data!

While big games berally sell less than consoles there are a lot of games on PC the sales are very spread out. A lot of PC games keep selling for 10 years, a lot of Blizzard games are like that you still see things Diablo and Starcraft battle chests pop on sales charts from time to time after so many years. Then you have things like Educational "games" etc. 

Social and web gamming has the advantage of being quick and easy to get into plus something people can do at work.