| Lenny93 said: PS2 + OG Xbox = 182.33 Million. PS3 + 360 = 173.21 Million. PS4 + One projected sells = 164 million, 48 million for Xbox one and 116 million for PS4. Or do you think that these 2 will eventually match or surpass the previous generation before them? |
Well first, every single person that purchases a console is not a hard-core gamer. A lot of people, arguably the majority of gamers are casuals in this day and age, regardless of the system they play on. Of all the people I know and with all the PC's and consoles they have put together, easily 80% of their hardware is used for Candy Crush, the Sims and other such casual software.
Hard-core gamers used to be the majority, long long ago back when video gaming was a thing for nerds. Which means they were the majority of a niche hobby. The real growth in video games consumption roughly since the mid 1990's is mostly of casuals. And today we are drowning in a sea of casuals. The mobile market is absolutely huge, close to a couple billion people playing casually.
If anything I'd say we hard-core gamers are growing but at a much slower pace than the casuals so proportionally we are shrinking and becoming irrelevant. I can only hope that there will be enough of us to sustain and make the creation of good hard-core games a profitable market for video games publishers for many years to come but with the seemingly endless growth of casuals that don't care about quality, intrusive loot-boxes, pay-to-win mechanics etc, I am not sure how we (hard-core gamers) even have a future. Time will tell.
