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Ruler on 13 December 2015

Report: PC Users Shifting to PlayStation 4, Germany Becomes Sony’s Largest Market

By Sikandar Mahmood / 6 days ago

According to a new report, thanks to PlayStation 4 Germany is now Sony’s biggest console market. The company is aiming to surpass the success of PlayStation 2, and hopes that PS4 will continue to break sales records across the globe.

Selling over 30 million units worldwide, Sony’s PlayStation 4 is the best selling console in most regions; be it U.S Europe or Middle East, PlayStation 4 is dominating.

Which is surprising because so far first party support has been lackluster. One can just imagine where will PS4 be when games like Uncharted 4, No Man’s Sky, God of War 4 and more hit the shelves.

This year’s Black Friday was the most successful in Sony’s history, said Andrew House, president and global chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment.

Andrew added: “We are now trying to benchmark against the success of the PlayStation 2 – or exceed it if possible.” How exactly did Germany now Sony’s biggest market? You’ll be surprised to hear that PC users are switching to PlayStation 4, as per the report.

We aren’t sure where the author got his stats from, but a reputed publication (Financial Times) ran the story. Still, lack of source in the report puts a question mark on this claim.

Just two years ago, http://www.bitkom.org/de/presse/8477_77024.aspx%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D9wr%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official">Bitkom shared a report claiming that 76% of gamers use PC in Germany so if that percentage is declining, you have to ask why?

It could have something to do with developers not optimizing games properly for PC gamers, I mean just look at Batman Arkham Knight. This is one example, but most games that aren’t PC exclusive suffer severely.

Keeping this into consideration, no one can blame PC gamers for switching to PlayStation 4.

Source: AFR

http://segmentnext.com/2015/12/07/report-pc-users-shifting-to-playstation-4-germany-becomes-sonys-largest-market/

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Zackasaurus-rex on 13 December 2015

I'm glad I left PC, tbh.

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patronmacabre on 13 December 2015

This is curious. Are MOBAs and Counter-Strike not particularly big in Germany?

With the severe decline in RTSes and the shift towards consoles and mobile for MMORPGs, this is not actually that surprising.

As much as it irks PC gamers (I consider myself a PC gamer, by the way -- I just also play on consoles and I find the PC gaming master race to be annoying), the reality is that PC gaming is defined by MOBAs, MMORPGs, competitive first-person shooters (Counter-Strike, namely), and RTSes (as mentioned before, this genre is pretty much dead). All other games are comparatively insignificant.

Edit: Also, Minecraft, though that applies to pretty much everything.

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Roronaa_chan on 13 December 2015

I did that, not German though.
BTW "6 days old". Aside from being old it was already posted

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Ruler on 13 December 2015

patronmacabre said:
This is curious. Are MOBAs and Counter-Strike not particularly big in Germany?
With the severe decline in RTSes and the shift towards consoles and mobile for MMORPGs, this is not actually that surprising.
As much as it irks PC gamers (I consider myself a PC gamer, by the way -- I just also play on consoles and I find the PC gaming master race to be annoying), the reality is that PC gaming is defined by MOBAs, MMORPGs, competitive first-person shooters (Counter-Strike, namely), and RTSes (as mentioned before, this genre is pretty much dead). All other games are comparatively insignificant.

what would it even matter if they were big? They are the same games over and again. The time and money could be better spend to play and pay for multiple games, thats why Console gaming brings more money overall.

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Most people don't care about a slight performance boost for a much higher price.

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Ruler said:

what would it even matter if they were big? They are the same games over and again. The time and money could be better spend to play and pay for multiple games, thats why Console gaming brings more money overall.

What I meant to say was...

If you look at records of acheivements and trophies, it is demonstrable that big budget games like Assassin's Creed are played more heavily on consoles.

If you look at what's being played on Steam, Dota 2 and CS: GO dominate the list always. LoL is even bigger.

What I mean to say, really, is that PC gaming as it is is heavily dependent on the success of MOBAs. The moment you see a strong decline in MOBA numbers is the moment you will start seeing PC gaming no longer being as lucrative as it once was -- unless another genre comes and takes its place.

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Metroid33slayer on 13 December 2015

I assume they mean in terms of console marketshare because sony sells more consoles in the usa, uk and japan.

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Arkaign on 13 December 2015

It's interesting. I like all kinds of platforms, but feel like this is the best time for PC in years. Lots of day 1 ports with gen 8 consoles, and most are good or great. I wonder if the post 9xx/3xx cards will affect this. 1440 and 4k, along with better framerate has me choosing PC for multiplats, and still enjoying console for exclusives and genres that I prefer there.