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Mobile Gaming is King, and Consoles retake lead from PC
maskedweasel
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"According to the report, mobile gaming will grow 21% YoY to almost $37 billion in 2016 from $30 billion in 2015. By 2019, that number will swell to $52.5 billion, or 45% of total worldwide gaming revenue.
China will account for about 25% of the market this year with $24 billion in gaming revenue. And gaming revenue from the Asia Pacific region as a whole will represent almost half (47%) of all revenue in 2016.
Console games, by contrast, will account for 26% of global gaming revenue in 2019, down from 30% in 2015. PCs will follow suit, with a drop from 28% in 2015 to 25% in 2019. But even with these declines, total revenue from these two segments will continue to rise."
PC gaming saw a huge surge to overtake consoles the last 3 years in revenue, but it looks like it's predicted to drop below consoles by 2019.
What we didn't see in the report... VR gaming.. which -- if it accounts for a piece of PC rather than mobile (it could possibly account for all 3 - PC, Console and Mobile) it doesn't appear that it's drastically increasing or changing the revenue streams by 2019 based on these reports.
What do you all think? Is Mobile the future?
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the endless debate and furious argument that PC game sells are better than consoles or ever have in this millennium are STILL going on today.
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For me mobile gaming is a bit like virtual sex.
Not as good as the real thing and only for people that don't have access to the real thing.
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But because of this will we eventually see a saturation of the mobile market and a decline, or will we see large core gaming companies focus more on mobile platforms?
What is implied by "the future" ?
Are you asking if there will be no more console and PC games, only mobile ?
Cars didn't mean the end of bicycles, trains, buses or walking. Sure, the mobile game industry has massive growth potential. Almost everyone has a mobile phone these days, some even have multiple different phones.
But I really can't see anyone playing CoD or CS:GO on their mobile phone, lol
and to be honest at least with the people I know, the most 'mobile use' people I know would otherwise not be much of a computer user other than work and very much would not be playing any AAA titles ever, even if they knew what the word means which I doubt they do
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I've been playing computer games since age 4, and I have something on my phone right now that is way beyond anything we had back then, and just as entertaining to me as the gamut of current Steam offerings.
In fact, it's seamlessly cross-platform; If I were to so choose, I could continue on my PC right where I left off on mobile, and vice-versa.
"The simple is the seal of the true and beauty is the splendor of truth" -Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Authored 139 missions in Vendetta Online and 6 tracks in Distance
Maybe it's just me, but I really can't imagine playing Civilization, Skyrim or War Thunder on a 5" screen, lol
And not true...for you.
As I said...it depends on your standards.
I could never play am MMORPG on a mobile device because I like to RP in RPG's and trying to type on my phone.....fuck that.
I will continue to use my phone to make phone calls and my PC to play games.
I'll only write from personal experience, but ergonomics and comfortability is a pretty big factor for me. Once I tried playing a game in bed while falling asleep, I realized that being hunched over a keyboard in front of a computer screen is about the worst possible position to enjoy a game; I do enough of that at work!
"The simple is the seal of the true and beauty is the splendor of truth" -Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Authored 139 missions in Vendetta Online and 6 tracks in Distance
tl;dr phones have been able to "offer the experience one can get on a PC" since around 2010. Currently, one of the hot trends in mobile space is to make things 'device agnostic'. Not only can you get a PC experience on a phone, you can play the same character without losing progress from either a phone or PC.
"The simple is the seal of the true and beauty is the splendor of truth" -Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Authored 139 missions in Vendetta Online and 6 tracks in Distance
This isn't a signature, you just think it is.
Oh gawd!!! That's not even fair! What is it? Are you in marketing?
I tend to agree. I have a game on mobile right now that I might play more than I do console or PC games. It's totally P2W but I have some friends who brought me into it and I like the strategery involved.
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Having a mouse to move the pointer around the screen in FPS games?
Like having a keyboard so I can touch type at 100 characters a minute?
Like having access to all my documents I use for keeping notes without having to close the game down to open the notes?
Like having 7.1 Dolby sound?
Yeah, you got me, totally the same experience.
As far as what it is, I have a superstition about stating its name.
"The simple is the seal of the true and beauty is the splendor of truth" -Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Authored 139 missions in Vendetta Online and 6 tracks in Distance
I think what you meant is that "PC's have been able to offer the experience you can get on a phone since... well, forever".
The opposite is not even remotely true.
Angry Birds works equally well on tablet or PC. Skyrim not so much...