| Captain_Yuri said: Sony is sorta trying to get into PC via psnow and DS4 for Windows. It will be interesting to see if Nintendo does anything tho. |
What makes you think Dual-Shock 4 has anything to do with it? It would have been supported on PC regardless if Sony likes it or not, like every other console controller to have ever existed since the dawn of computing.
PSNow isn't attractive to PC gamers. *shudders*
| BasilZero said: Ahhhh.....not sure where you are getting your stats but MS is doing a poor job when it comes to their Windows Store - W10 versions of games are doing piss poor compared to Steam versions especially when some features are blocked compared to other versions provided elsewhere. |
This.
Pretty sure Microsoft gave out refunds for some Windows Store Games due to the sales bombing and the game not having a Multiplayer population worth mentioning.
| SvennoJ said: "the western appetite for PC gaming systems costing thousands of dollars is strong." But but, pc gaming is cheap! |
Er. You do realise you don't have to buy a PC that is thousands of dollars?
I know this is a crazy thing to comprehend... But the PC has this thing called choice, where you choose what you want, I know, crazy concept isn't it? But it's actually true.
| VGPolyglot said: Well, today I just got my own desktop, the first internet-connected one that I don't share with my parents. It's very too powerful, but that's fine because I don't buy games digitally and since most new games are on Steam I'll just be getting older DOS and Windows 95/98/2000/XP games I guess. |
You could always go Gog.com. Their games are DRM free, so you can whack a game on a MicroSD card... And essentially you have your own carts. ;)
pokoko said:
Steam most likely blows away all the console manufacturers in terms of profit from gaming. They pull in billions in revenue with very little overhead. |
Steam has a stupidly massive user base... Larger than the Xbox One, Playstation 4 and Wii U combined at the moment. Heck throw the 3DS into that as well.
| exclusive_console said: PC gaming will always be there. But the money is in consoles and mobile I think. PC market is extra incentive for devs |
The statistics say otherwise.
Mobile > PC > Consoles.
| OdinHades said: I wouldn't read too much into it. While the PC is definitely a healthy platform, I doubt the growth is going through the roof. Asia is a big factor, but especially in the west all I see are the effects of the Intel/Nvidia monopoly in highend hardware. Prices have skyrocketed in that segment and so an increase in revenue doesn't necessesarly mean that the numbers of sold items are also rising. In fact, I heard some days ago that Nvidia sold less 1070 and 1080 than expected and that that's the reason they're holding back thr 1080 Ti. But anyway, all I'm trying to say is let's not get ahead of ourselves. |
Actually. GPU shipments for 2016 were higher than it has been for the last few years, Pascal and Polaris were the first decent upgrades that entice people.
The interesting thing about GPU shipments is nVidia and AMD don't really sell super high volumes of low-end discreet cards anymore thanks to CPU integrated graphics being "good enough".
The take away of that though is, mid-range GPU's with higher profit margins have actually increased in sales.
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