![]() My first gaming rig had a state-of-the-art CD-ROM so I could play the new Betrayal at Krondor CD-ROM game with a CD-quality soundtrack (that same disk is now signed by Raymond Feist, for those that care).Īnd I don't own a gaming rig today. Mon 21st Nov I've been in IT for 25 years.I didn't say they shouldn't cash in, they ABSOLUTELY should, I'm all for PS games on PC, never said otherwise, but I said they should wait, it should not be Day 1 except in exceptional cases. They would be foolish to not to cash in on that huge market.ġ00% agree. If it is so much bigger why collectively do they spend so much less? Answer: The metrics that really matter like revenue from paying customers isn't that much bigger, it's actually smaller. Yes if you include every PC owner who's ever played Solitaire but that isn't representative. The PC market is massive compared to the console market. Source: But this isn't new, this is old news: 2020 See the 2022 report of global gaming share by analysts Newzoo: PC gaming is not 10x bigger than console by almost every useful metric as that number includes a FAR higher percentage of ultra-casual almost-never-play, or spend, gamers. While yes there are an estimated 1.7 billion PC gamers that doesn't tell the whole story at all. Mon 21st Nov Those numbers are always deceptive.Sackboy: A Big Adventure - 610 (22 days ago).Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection - 10,851 (29 days ago). ![]() Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales - 13,539 (two days ago).Horizon Zero Dawn - 56,557 (two years ago).Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered - 66,436 (three months ago). ![]() It just managed to beat the Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection by a few thousand users.Īs of 21st November 2022, Sony's PC ports have recorded the following highest concurrent number of players: The latest stats make Miles Morales the third most popular PC release from Sony in 2022, behind God of War and Marvel's Spider-Man: Remastered. And three weeks later, the game still hasn't pulled in more users than that at any one time. This marks a huge improvement over Sony's previous PC release Sackboy: A Big Adventure, which could only pull in 610 players during its release. ![]() Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales is currently the tenth best-selling game on Steam after a peak of more than 13,500 PC users played the game at any one time during its opening weekend.
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