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That 3 billion people play some sort of games (particularly on mobile) is not at all surprising to me. I would guess that number correlates to “90% of people u
by cgrealy 6y ago
That 3 billion people play some sort of games (particularly on mobile) is not at all surprising to me.
I would guess that number correlates to “90% of people under a certain age (50??) who have access to a device”.
That 1.5 billion play games on PC is shocking to me.
- as1mov 6y agoI think's that number is reasonable considering any PC can be used for gaming with a small investment. Just adding a $100-$150 GPU can make any old PC from the last decade capable of playing games. That's how gaming has usually worked in third world countries at least.
- fendy3002 6y agoAnd people usually already have pc for activities outside of gaming. And it's very easy to play any games on pc, and some are free such as open source games and abandonwares (CMIIW).
- cgrealy 6y agoA quick google says there are 1.5 billion pcs in the world (in 2015). I’m guessing they’re pretty much assuming most people who have a PC have played some form of game on it.
- etiam 6y agoIt's pretty striking, sure. But depending on how they made the investigation, possibly it includes gaming down to being able to answer yes to questions like 'Have you more than a handful of times opened and used Microsoft Solitaire?', which is of course not what most people think of a PC gaming these days.
- mkl 6y agoMy 102 year old grandfather is a bigger gamer than me: Spider Solitaire.