PC Gaming Irrelevant or Relevant?!

[zarx]

Lawlight said:

zarx said:

Lawlight said:
And guys, pc gaming revenue only amounts to $20B if you go by the definition that a pc gamer is someone who games on an x86 architecture. This includes macbooks, tablets and smartphones. In addition to that, 35% of pc gaming revenue comes from China - where consoles are banned.

Only? And PC games doesn't include mobile/tablet revenue that is a seperate catagory. 

"A series of new reports from DFC Intelligence forecasts that the global market for video games is expected to grow from $67 billion in 2012"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngaudiosi/2012/07/18/new-reports-forecasts-global-video-game-industry-will-reach-82-billion-by-2017/

Almost a third of all gaming revenue comes from the PC, and that includes console hardware but not the massive amount that is spent on PC hardware (as it would be impossible to  asitane whether PC hardware was brought for gaming I guess). 

Yes, it does:

PC Gaming Alliance: "Our basic definition of what constitutes a “gaming PC” is that it uses an x86 processor." 

Also:

"There are four primary form factors available to the PC gamer:

Desktop.

Portable.

 All-in-one (AIO)

Tablet"

 

Time to face the facts - outside of a few select games, hardcore PC gaming in the west is not really that prevalent.

99% of mobile phones and tablets are bassed on ARM CPUs so not x86. Android and iOS and even Win phone 7 are all ARM bassed. x86 tablets capable of actually running games even browser based ones really havent existed until very recently and even then Win 8 tablets with x86 CPUs a still in the reigon of a couple million units so pretty much irrelivent even if they were all used for gaming. I am not sure what you would define as hardcore gaming but PC is still one of the biggest single platforms in the west unless by west you only mean the USA where PC is particularly weak and even there it's still a major platform for core games in 2011 core PC games (Boxed+Digital download+MMO not counting social and web based games) accounted for $6.9b revenue in 2011 vs $8b for all console software (DS+3DS+PSP+PS2+PS3+Wii+X360 retail and digital which is a lot of platforms to lump into one). And if we look at the time spent data in the USA PC boxed+Digital is almost equal with all console platforms combined and if you add in MMO it's much more, if PC gaming is irrelivent in the west then console gaming is not very relevant ether.