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I suspect there are more PC gamers than console gamers and FPS shooters will lean towards PC compared to the overall distribution.

gruez 7y ago
>I suspect there are more PC gamers than console gamers Source for this? Random search yields this: >Steam now has more than 65 million active accounts. [...] Microsoft's Xbox Live has 48 million accounts [...] and Sony's PlayStation Network claims 110 million. https://www.theverge.com/2013/10/30/5045830/steam-65-million-active-accounts-6-million-concurrent-users https://www.theverge.com/2013/10/30/5045830/steam-65-million...
- inflatableDodo 7y ago
  Here's one - >"After reading the interview, I went back to my own conversation with Raptr CEO Dennis Fong, who reminded me there are a staggering 900 million PC gamers worldwide. Contrast that data with global consoles sales of, say, Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft's Xbox 360, and Sony's PlayStation 3: About 262 million units. Combined. Granted, that's according to VGChartz which isn't a perfectly reliable snapshot, but even with a considerable error rate that tells a compelling story. The most popular game console to date is the PlayStation, with estimated global sales of 157 million." https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2014/04/28/as-global-pc-game-revenue-surpasses-consoles-how-long-should-console-makers-keep-fighting/#71727f7d7dec https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2014/04/28/as-gl...
  - dmix 7y ago
    It says Steam has 75 million users while bulk of the rest of active games are all MMO games like Roblox which has 100 million and League of Legends at 70M by itself. https://www.wepc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/worldwide-distribution-of-games-market-revenue-from-2015-to-2019-by-segment-and-screen.jpg https://www.wepc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/worldwide-di... https://www.wepc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/worldwide-unit-sales-of-the-best-selling-pc-games-of-all-times-in-millions-units-january-2018.jpg https://www.wepc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/worldwide-un...

gruez 7y ago

>I suspect there are more PC gamers than console gamers Source for this? Random search yields this: >Steam now has more than 65 million active accounts. [...] Microsoft's Xbox Live has 48 million accounts [...] and Sony's PlayStation Network claims 110 million. https://www.theverge.com/2013/10/30/5045830/steam-65-million-active-accounts-6-million-concurrent-users https://www.theverge.com/2013/10/30/5045830/steam-65-million...

inflatableDodo 7y ago
Here's one - >"After reading the interview, I went back to my own conversation with Raptr CEO Dennis Fong, who reminded me there are a staggering 900 million PC gamers worldwide. Contrast that data with global consoles sales of, say, Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft's Xbox 360, and Sony's PlayStation 3: About 262 million units. Combined. Granted, that's according to VGChartz which isn't a perfectly reliable snapshot, but even with a considerable error rate that tells a compelling story. The most popular game console to date is the PlayStation, with estimated global sales of 157 million." https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2014/04/28/as-global-pc-game-revenue-surpasses-consoles-how-long-should-console-makers-keep-fighting/#71727f7d7dec https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2014/04/28/as-gl...
- dmix 7y ago
  It says Steam has 75 million users while bulk of the rest of active games are all MMO games like Roblox which has 100 million and League of Legends at 70M by itself. https://www.wepc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/worldwide-distribution-of-games-market-revenue-from-2015-to-2019-by-segment-and-screen.jpg https://www.wepc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/worldwide-di... https://www.wepc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/worldwide-unit-sales-of-the-best-selling-pc-games-of-all-times-in-millions-units-january-2018.jpg https://www.wepc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/worldwide-un...