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Comment by weezing

18 hours ago

Their gaming marketshare is minuscule both on PCs and consoles already. It's a downward spiral for years already.

That's not true. It's actually spiraling the other direction now. Consoles just don't have the value proposition they used to have. You can buy a general purpose PC for the same price as a console that has better performance and also allows you to do your taxes.

Windows still has a huge gaming marketshare on PC, and Microsoft as publisher is still a big player. You mean something else?

wow that's interesting. Where is the gaming share moving, if not pc and consoles? I guess hand-held devices (do those not count as consoles?) and phones?

  • Mobile is the 900 pound gorilla in the games space through sheer volume, but it really depends on what you're measuring. Revenue per user is console > PC > mobile, but total gaming revenue is more like mobile > console > PC.

    But here we're putting Candy Crush in the same category as GTA V, so I'm not sure we're really comparing apples to apples.

According to my google searching XBox has almost a quarter of the console gaming market share. Hardly miniscule.