DukenukemX
Supreme [H]ardness
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Doom Eternal sales on PC is far greater than that on consoles. Witcher 3 sold more copies on PC than all the consoles combined. Neither Call of Duty or Battlefield have any info on PC vs console sales, and Fallout 4's sales numbers are from 2016 at best with a reported 12 million sold but according to SteamSpy it sold 5million to 10 million copies, making it hard to determine how many were actually sold. Horizon Zero Dawn sold 700k on PC while PS4 sold 7.6 million but that's to be expected with a 3 years release window. Generally if the developers release the sales numbers it's usually PC equaling or surpassing Playstation sales.PC gaming includes browser games and free to play gambling like games. These are popular in places like Asia. They make large amounts of money. However, they're a very different experience from AAA or even AA games like Fallout, Battlefield or The Witcher. Consoles still sell more of those types of games than PC.
Web browsing based games make up a fraction of gaming on PC. LukeTbk already posted the numbers showing that browser PC gaming is like 2% of the overall market with AAA games being 21% of the overall market. While the console market is 28% overall, but you can figure out that Sony doesn't have anywhere near the sales that PC gaming has, unless you think Sony owns 100% of console sales? How much copium are you guys taking in?That's a fair point I should have mentioned, and it reinforces the argument. Thanks! PC diehards like to pretend every gamer has a speedy system with a dedicated GPU and a hefty Steam library, but the truth is that many gamers are playing web titles or using budget machines with integrated graphics. They might not even know what Steam is.
Believe it or not but the PC gaming market has been struggling for a while when it comes to GPU prices. The GTX 1060 is like 10% of the Steam hardware survey and that's like a 5 year old GPU, going onto 6. Basically most gamers are broke, and going console won't fix it. I just looked on Ebay and the PS5's are still going for well over $1k. Also don't underestimate the capabilities of integrated GPU's.Hell, the Steam hardware survey as of October 2021 shows that 8.9% of users are running Intel graphics, and a significant portion of AMD's 15.2% are using integrated GPUs. In other words, a significant chunk of Steam users don't even meet the minimum requirements for Sony's PC ports.
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