PC Dominates Gaming Hardware Sales

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binary solo said:
Yeah, this is only a measure of PCs and upgrade hardware sales. It does not explore actual use of said hardware. So while it is true that the PC hardware market is vastly huge than console hardware it does not necessarily follow that PC gaming is vastly greater, or even equal to, the console market.

I have a pretty low power laptop I use to play Smite as the only gaming application. But its primary purpose is for watching movies and TV shows streaming on my TV and for surfing the net. But if my country was covered by this survey then my laptop purchase would be counted.

So all in all not really a good method for trying to measure the size of the respective gaming markets. I suspect mobile phones as gaming devices blows both of the traditional gaming platforms out of the water, so perhaps developers should be optimising for mobile phones because so many people buy phones capable of playing games.

You know, it mentions that $17 billion come purely from the performance/enthusiast crowd, which is still more than the consoles. 74% were either performance or enthusiast sales.